Xiaodong Lan

Senior Applied Scientist

Xiaodong Lan is a seasoned roboticist known for expertise in robotics and artificial intelligence. They served as an Applied Scientist at Amazon from 2017 to 2022 and currently hold the position of Senior Applied Scientist, focusing on mapping for Prime Air drones and mentoring junior engineers. Prior experience includes working as an Advanced Software Engineer at Symbotic and contributing to multi-agent coordination for warehouse robots, as well as a summer internship at MERL, where they developed path planning algorithms for semi-autonomous driving. Xiaodong earned a Bachelor of Science in Robotics from Harbin Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Robotics and Mechanical Engineering from Boston University. They received a Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Robotics in 2017.

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Seattle, United States

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