Ante Qu

Ante Qu is a Senior Software Engineer at Waymo since August 2021, specializing in planning. Prior roles include Software Engineer at Waymo and Research Scientist Intern and Contractor at Toyota Research Institute, where Ante contributed to robotic manipulation simulation and enhancements to the open-source dynamics toolbox, Drake. Ante also interned at Adobe, developing a fast acoustic transfer prototype, and at Microsoft, enabling SVG file features in a C++ codebase, earning a patent for a graphics innovation. Earlier experience includes a Systems Software Engineer internship at NVIDIA and a Summer Research Internship at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, focusing on GPU parallelization. Ante Qu holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BA in Physics from Princeton University.