- Joined
- May 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- Applied IntuitionEngineering
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
Details
LocationUnited States
Company sitecognition.com
LanguagesChinese (Simplified), English
UniversityYale University
PythonC++CJavaComputer ScienceAlgorithmsSoftware Engineering
Notes
- Joined Cognition (maker of Devin and Windsurf) as Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco in May 2026, after roughly 2.5 years at Applied Intuition; the move from autonomy/simulation tooling to AI coding agents follows nearly eight years in autonomous-vehicle software.May 2026
- Worked in Engineering at Applied Intuition (Mountain View, CA) from Oct 2023 to May 2026, the vehicle-software and simulation company serving automakers and AV programs.Oct 2023
- Spent four years at Nuro (Mountain View) as Software Engineer from Aug 2018, promoted to Senior Software Engineer in Mar 2022 and leaving Sep 2022.Aug 2018
- Earned combined Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science at Yale University (2014-2018).2018
- Co-authored the IVA 2016 paper 'Talk to Me: Verbal Communication Improves Perceptions of Friendship and Social Presence in Human-Robot Interaction' with Elena Corina Grigore, Andre Pereira, David Wang and Brian Scassellati of the Yale Social Robotics Lab.2016
- Public headline says "Software Engineer".
- Held a Software Engineer role from Sep 2022 to Oct 2023 with no employer named on his LinkedIn profile, a gap between Nuro and Applied Intuition.Sep 2022
- Interned as a Software Engineer at Google in Seattle in summer 2016.May 2016
- Co-authored ICSR 2016 paper 'Comparing Ways to Trigger Migration between a Robot and a Virtually Embodied Character' with Elena Corina Grigore, Andre Pereira, Jie Jessica Yang, David Wang and Brian Scassellati; the Talk to Me paper is later cited in an ACM THRI 2018 human-robot teaming paper.2016
- Undergraduate researcher in the Yale Social Robotics Lab (Brian Scassellati's ScazLab) in summer 2015.May 2015
- Competed in the USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) as class of 2014: scored 711 in the Feb 2013 Bronze and 867 in the Mar 2013 Bronze contests, then 700 in the Mar 2014 Silver contest.Mar 2013
- Scientific Computing Intern at Emerald Cloud Lab (South San Francisco) in summer 2017, the remote-controlled robotic life-sciences lab.May 2017
Experience
Member of Technical Staff at Cognition
May 2026 - Present
San Francisco, CA
Engineering at Applied Intuition
Oct 2023 - May 2026
Mountain View, CA
Software Engineer
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
Senior Software Engineer at Nuro
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Mountain View, CA
Software Engineer at Nuro
Aug 2018 - Mar 2022
Mountain View, CA
Scientific Computing Intern at Emerald Cloud Lab
May 2017 - Aug 2017
South San Francisco, CA
Software Developer Part-Time at Trinity Mobile Networks
Sep 2015 - May 2017
New Haven, CT
Software Engineering Intern at Google
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Seattle, WA
Education
Yale University
Jan 2014 - Jan 2018
Bachelor's and Master's, Computer Science
Projects
Yale Social Robotics Lab: verbal communication and entity migration studies with robots (2015-2016)
AchievementsCo-author, IVA 2016 'Talk to Me' human-robot interaction paper · Co-author, ICSR 2016 robot/virtual character migration paper
Articles
AwardsUSACO Silver division (2014)
Profiles
