Chenge Yang
Software Engineer at Waymo
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChenge Yang is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in robotic perception and SLAM, currently contributing to Waymo's autonomy stack in Chicago. He holds an M.S. in Robotics from Northwestern and a B.Eng. in Engineering Mechanics from Peking University, pairing strong theoretical foundations with hands-on systems work. His background includes internships at Corvus Robotics and BMW Group, where he focused on applied robotics and R&D challenges. Comfortable moving between research and production, he brings practical expertise in perception pipelines and real-world sensor fusion. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges academic insight with product-driven engineering to deliver reliable autonomy features.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's, Engineerig Mechanics, Bachelor's, Engineerig Mechanics at Peking UniversityMaster of Science, Robotics, Master of Science, Robotics at Northwestern University
Github Skills (17)
probabilistic-robotics9
motion-planning7
autonomous-robots6
slam-algorithms6
optimization6
deep-learning6
python6
linear-programming5
trajectory-generation5
robotics5
euclidean-distance5
perception4
ros4
reinforcement-learning3
operations-research3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ChengeYang/TurtleBot3-Gmapping
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
ChengeYang/SLAM-with-Velodyne-Lidar-and-Jackal-UGV
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Winter Project at Northwestern.
Contributions:42 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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