Ruijie (RJ) He

Building the farm worker of the future by applying the latest robot learning techniques to automate labor-intensive agriculture tasks

Led a 100-strong Perception & Autonomy Integration teams to reinvent personal transportation. - Deployed world's first purpose-built driverless robotaxis on public roads in CA and NV at up to 45mph - Built and scaled data and infra machinery to productionize AI/ML - Opened and led Boston office

Reinventing agriculture with robotics, computer vision and machine learning. - Automating strawberry pruning and harvesting - Design → paid pilots in 6 months - Acquired by Zoox

Responsible for DevOps at MIT's Quest for Intelligence. Developed MIT’s Covid-19 Response System, a dashboard for senior MIT administrators to make timely decisions for the MIT community during the Covid-19 pandemic

Led engineering & product organization (100-strong) to build and deploy self-driving vehicles at 4 revenue-generating sites. Responsible for technical milestones that led to $50m Series B

Successfully launched the first revenue-generating self-driving fleet at Union Point, MA

Responsible for all self-driving software and technical project management. Helped raise $18m Series A and secured first revenue-generating contract

Wrote initial software to enable autonomous operation on public roads, including mapping, localization, obstacle detection, and inference algorithms

Developed NLP and ML algorithms for the Google Assistant and the My Activity tool. Launched both products internationally

Commanded 120-strong mechanized infantry company and developed military cyber defense and human resource plans and policies

Developed fully autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles capable of self-directed exploration in GPS-denied (e.g. indoor / urban) environments

Thesis: Semi-conditional Planners for Efficient Planning under Uncertainty with Macro-actions

Thesis: Planning in Information Space for a Quad-rotor Helicopter in a GPS-denied Environment

Thesis: Ganging up on Jolly Roger in Asia: International Cooperation and Maritime Piracy