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Hathaway Zhu
Robotics Software Engineer
Researcher in artificial intelligence of mobile robots

Hathaway Zhu

I’m

  • a robotics software engineer, and also
  • a researcher of artificial intelligence for mobile robots.

I'm a life-long learner. Being good at math makes me perform well in learning new things. I used to win the second prize in our provincial math competition, and get the National Scholarship of China (the hardest one for a college student to get).

My ideal job would be of 70% coding and 30% cutting-edge academic research. I work more productively in doing jobs with a mix of both software development and theoretical research than doing just pure theoretical ones.

Collaboration and group discussion is a more efficient way for me than working alone.

I believe initiative-taking, a sense of ownership, forward-thinking, and communication are the most important aspects in approaching success in both one's career and personal life.

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Research Interests

Decision-making and Planning

  • Motion planning of self-driving cars
  • Path planning of pick-and-place robots
  • Behavior planning of self-driving cars

System and Control Theory

  • State estimation and prediction
  • Linear system and control
  • Nonlinear system and control

Optimization and Machine Learning

  • Convex optimization
  • Non-convex optimization
  • Reinforcement learning and supervised learning in robotics

Big Data Technologies

  • Data storage: Hadoop Distributed File System
  • Data analytics: Apache Spark
  • Data Visualization: Matplotlib, Plotly

Resume

4 Years of Work Experience, 7 Years of Academic Experience
Self-driving Car

Self-driving Car

Piece-picking Robot

Piece-picking Robot

Quadcopter

Quadcopter

Coding

Coding

Work Experience

2021-Present
Algolux

Senior Research Engineer

Decision-making for autonomous driving vehicles

-- Behavior planning (50%)

-- Trajectory planning (25%)

2020 - 2021
RoboEye.ai

Robotics Software Engineer

Piece-picking robot arm (Universal Robot 5, 6-DoF) with a gripper as the end-effector

-- Trajectory planning

2019 - 2020
Noah's Ark Lab | Huawei Technologies

Researcher

Autonomous Driving @ Noah's Ark Lab (The AI research center of HUAWEI)

-- Behavior planning (40%)

-- Motion Planning (50%)

-- Motion Prediction of pedestrians(10%)

Education

2021 - Current
Udacity

Machine Learning Engineer (Nano-degree)

-- Machine Learning in Production

-- Machine Learning Case Studies.

2016 - 2019
McMaster University

Research Assistant ( as a Ph.D candidate)

-- Distributive control of quadcopters to cooperatively transportation of a cable-suspended payload

-- Parameter identification using supervised learning, state estimation, and trajectory planning

Most Proud of

  • Winning the second prize in the National Math Competition.
  • Winning the National Scholarship of China.
  • Paying off the debts for my family.

Coding Skills

C++/C

80%

Python

80%

Matlab

80%

Software Dev. Tools

  • ROS
  • Git
  • Docker
  • Amazon SageMaker
  • TensorFlow

Peer Paper Review

  • Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2020)
  • IET Control Theory and Applications
  • Industrial Robot | Emerald Insight

Blog

Quick Tips

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Contact

Get in Touch

Freelance Consultancy Available

in Robot Autonomy Algorithms

Toronto, Canada

Have a problem in state estimation, motion planning, control methods for your robotic application?

Portfolio

My Works
SoundCloud Audio

SoundCloud Audio

SoundCloud
Media Project 2

Media Project 2

Media
Vimeo Video 1

Vimeo Video 1

Vimeo Videos
Media Project 1

Media Project 1

Media
Mockup Design 1

Mockup Design 1

Mockups
YouTube Video 1

YouTube Video 1

YouTube Videos