Zimu (Zim) Gong

Research Engineer @ Meta FAIR | Founding Member @ Assured Robot Intelligence | ex Waabi & Lightwheel

I am a research engineer at Meta FAIR working on robotics and physical AI. I am interested in VLA models, reinforcement learning, and general robotics applications, with hands-on experience building data pipelines, designing and training machine learning models, and deploying them to robots.

Before joining Meta, I was a founding member and research engineer at Assured Robot Intelligence, which was acquired by Meta. I earned my M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and my B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the UM-SJTU Joint Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Previously, I interned at Waabi with the A&A Behaviors team on safety-critical traffic scenario generation with flow-matching VAE methods, work accepted to ICRA 2026. I was also the first intern at Lightwheel, where I worked on simulation, end-to-end autonomous driving, imitation learning, and reinforcement learning for manipulation.