Esther Ling
Research Scientist
Summary
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SeniorEsther Ling is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in mapping, localization, and sensor calibration for self-driving vehicles, currently contributing to Nuro’s autonomy stack in Boston. She has deep C++ and robotics expertise from roles at Optimus Ride—where she led calibration improvements, designed road network layers, and shipped IMU factors for a GTSAM-based pose graph—and research work at Georgia Tech on visual SLAM and traffic signal analytics. Esther combines academic rigor (M.S. in ECE) with hands-on systems engineering, building pipelines, large sensor databases, and tooling to make calibration reproducible and maintainable. Her work consistently targets production-grade perception accuracy and long-term code maintainability, and she has a track record of integrating open-source SLAM and developing practical tooling to accelerate sensor workflows.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
r9
r-programming7
segmentation5
kitti3
computer-vision3
autonomous-driving3
tensorflow2
semantic2
python2
ai1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lefthandwriter/ChargePointAPI
Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
lefthandwriter/lefthandwriter.github.io
Dec 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:108 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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