Zhou Xian
Founder & CEO at Genesis AI
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhou Xian is a founder and CEO based in Mountain View with a decade of experience at the intersection of robotics, AI, and product building. A PhD candidate in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon, he bridges rigorous research with industry-facing work, including internships at Facebook AI and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. He founded Genesis AI in 2025 to commercialize advances in intelligent systems, bringing academic depth to startup execution. His background in mechatronics and automation from Nanyang Technological University underpins a hands-on approach to system design and hardware–software integration. Notably, he has navigated both elite research environments and fast-moving product teams, positioning him to translate cutting-edge robotics research into deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Nanyang Technological UniversityPhD, Robotics, PhD, Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (50)
simulation10
robotics10
gpu-programming10
computer-graphics10
ai10
simulator9
python9
gpu9
pybullet9
differentiable-programming9
deep-learning8
bullet-physics8
reinforcement-learning8
virtual-reality8
collision-detection8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
quangounet/bimanual
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Bimanual manipulation
Contributions:74 commits, 8 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 months
manipulation
generalist-robots/generalist-robots.github.io
Jun 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:42 pushes in 4 months
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