James Yang
Founding Engineer @ Cosmic Robotics
United States
San Francisco Bay Area
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
C++, Python, Matlab, Robotics, CV, C, Linux, Cross-team Collaboration, Team Leadership, Communication
Experience
Founding Engineer
Cosmic Robotics
San Francisco, California, United States
Director of Autonomy
Pickle Robot Company
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Senior Software Engineer
X, The Moonshot Factory
Seattle, Washington, United States
Project discontinued in 2023. Perception Engineer at the Everyday Robots project. https://x.company/projects/everyday-robots
Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Scout
Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Sensor calibration lead - Self-calibration of cameras using natural features - Multi-camera calibration on the scale of thousands of robots in an industrial setting - Lidar-camera extrinsics calibration - Magnetometer calibration - IMU-camera extrinsics calibration - Spatiotemporal batch optimization for visual and inertial sensors via ego-motion reconstruction
Applied Scientist II, Amazon Scout
Amazon
Greater Seattle Area
Research Scientist II, Prime Air
Amazon
State estimation, Kalman filtering, noise modeling, sensor calibration, motion planning and navigation, simulation
Research Scientist I, Prime Air
Amazon
Greater Seattle Area
Software Development Engineer I, Prime Air
Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Software Development Engineer Intern, Prime Air
Amazon
Greater Seattle Area
Visual servoing and control
Software Development Intern
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Automation of a satellite image analysis process • Generated features using NDVI, PCA, and Tasseled Cap transformations on raw satellite images • Performed ISODATA clustering unsupervised learning algorithm on 24-band images to obtain terrain classifications • Applied k-NN supervised learning to categorize different types of impervious cover
Research Assistant
University of Pennsylvania
Greater Philadelphia Area
Cooperative aerial and ground robotics team for augmented SLAM • Global position tracking of quadrotor using SLAM data and fiducial markers from ground robots Obstacle removal for optimizing path planning in mobile robotics • Developed a 5-DOF robotic arm for obstacle removal and environment manipulation • Planar imaging and obstacle detection using horizontal lidar
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Robotics
computer vision, machine perception, machine learning, control theory, embedded systems, mechatronics
University of Pennsylvania
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Electrical Engineering
Magna Cum Laude
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