Zixu Zhang
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZixu Zhang is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience applying robotics, perception, and planning research to real-world autonomous systems. He completed a PhD at Princeton after earning a robotics MSE from the University of Michigan and a mechanical engineering BS, and has focused on robot decision-making and planning under uncertainty at scale. Zixu has contributed to autonomy stacks at Tesla (FSD) across two roles and built sensor- and data-focused systems during research and industry stints at Michigan, Magna, and UIUC. He brings a rare combination of academic rigor—teaching a graduate self-driving course and publishing research—and hands-on engineering, from ROS-integrated platforms and sensor calibration to production ML for driving. Based in New Jersey, he excels at bridging research and scalable deployment, often tackling robustness and calibration challenges that are easy to overlook but crucial for safe autonomy.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Robotics, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Robotics, 4.0/4.0 at University of MichiganUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School, High School at Ningbo Yinzhou High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering at Princeton University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
hosts9
intelligent9
robotics9
urdf8
ros7
moveit7
industrial3
robot2
foundation-models1
computer-vision1
pybullet1
multimodal1
deep-learning1
perception1
manipulation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SafeRoboticsLab/Safe_Occlusion_Aware_Planning
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
SafeRoboticsLab/ECE346
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
This repo hosts lab materials for the ECE 346 - Intelligent Robotics System - at Princeton University.
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 91 commits in 1 year
eceroboticsprincetonhostslab-materials
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