Zhanpeng He
I am a PhD student at the Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory , part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California , and Student Researcher for the Robotics team at Google Brain . I do research at the intersection of robotics and machine learning. My PhD advisor is Gaurav Sukhatme , and from 2017 to 2018, I was also co-advised by Stefan Schaal . My advisers at Google Research are Karol Hausman and Chelsea Finn .
From 2014 to 2017, I worked at Google and X , on a series of robotics projects, including the Everyday Robot project, whose goal is to make a robot which can "learn to help everyone, every day." I worked on many parts of the robotics stack, including high-level programming APIs, 3D visualization, interprocess communication, WiFi and cloud connectivity, automatic calibration, and automation for manufacturing lines building robots. Some of the robots I helped create can be seen in the company's earliest robot
Prior to joining Google, I was an R&D Engineer at Leap Motion (now Ultraleap), where I worked on hardware, firmware, and test automation for computer vision-based hand-tracking devices, and earned a couple patents in the process. Before that, I spent a year as a Research Scientist at UC Berkeley , where I did research with—and built controllers for—some of the world's smallest intelligent robots.
Zhanpeng He