Shicong M. is an experienced software engineer currently employed at Zoox since March 2024. Previously, Shicong worked at TuSimple from August 2020 to June 2024, where the role included leading a scalable and incremental graph-based multi-bag pose optimization pipeline and developing critical features for HD maps. Shicong's academic career includes a position as a Teaching Assistant at the Georgia Institute of Technology from August 2018 to May 2020, focusing on robotics and computational photography, and experience as a Research Assistant, which involved developing solutions for robotic localization and autonomous systems. Earlier, Shicong contributed to an Autonomous Bus Control System at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Academic qualifications include a Master's degree in Computer Vision, Robot Perception, and SLAM from the Georgia Institute of Technology, along with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from China University of Geosciences.
March, 2024 - present