Yinchen Xu
Software Engineer at Roblox
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolYinchen Xu is a software engineer based in Palo Alto with eight years of experience building system-level software, front-end applications, VR experiences, and database backends. Currently at Roblox, he combines production engineering with a strong academic foundation—BS degrees in Engineering Physics and Computer Science (both top grades) and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford—to move research ideas into scalable products. His background includes computational physics, graphics, and HCI research, and he has taught computer graphics as a course assistant at Stanford, reflecting both technical depth and mentorship experience. Comfortable across low-level systems and interactive user experiences, he brings a research-minded approach to shipping pragmatic, performant software.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, N/A, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, N/A at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (33)
stylegan10
image-synthesis9
arxiv8
action-recognition8
video-understanding8
robot-control8
pytorch7
rss7
3d7
3d-reconstruction6
remote-server6
padding6
robotics4
streaming-data4
data-efficient4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
justimyhxu/DEXTR-PyTorch
May 2019 - May 2019
Deep Extreme Cut http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~cvlsegmentation/dextr
Contributions:28 commits, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 3 days
visioncutextremeethz
genforce/volumegan
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
CVPR 2022 VolumeGAN - 3D-aware Image Synthesis via Learning Structural and Textural Representations
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes, 4 comments in 6 months
3dimage-synthesis
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