Yang L.

Yang L. is a Senior Research Scientist at Waymo, specializing in Perception Foundation Models since November 2024. Prior to this role, Yang held positions as a Machine Learning Research Scientist and Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from June 2023 to November 2024, and as a Senior Scientist at Argo AI from October 2021 to November 2022. Yang's experience includes a tenure as a Research Scientist at Abacus.AI from June 2020 to August 2021, and as an Autonomous Driving Research Intern at Intel Labs in mid-2019. Academic credentials include a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computation and Neural Systems obtained from Caltech between January 2014 and January 2020, and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Vehicle Engineering from Tsinghua University from January 2009 to January 2013.