Resume
Sumary
Zim Gong
First-year master's student at UM-Ann Arbor, passionate in autonomous driving and embodied AI.
- Ann Arbor, MI
- +1 (607) 280-2147
- zimgong@umich.edu
Education
Master of Science in EngineeringComputer Science and Engineering
Aug 2024 - May 2026
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aug 2020 - Aug 2024
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai, China
Study Abroad Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jan 2023 - May 2023
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Professional Experience
Research Intern
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Waabi · A&A Behaviors Team · San Francisco, CA
- Worked with the A&A Behaviors team on traffic simulation.
- Developed safety-critical scenario traffic models with flow matching VAE.
End-to-end Autonomoud Driving Algorithm Intern
May 2024 - Aug 2024
Lightwheel
- Worked with the end-to-end autonomous driving team.
- Participated in the development of an in-house simulator that supports Unreal Engine and 3DGS hybrid rendering, which later served in the development of an end-to-end autonomous driving algorithm for an OEM.
- Trained and evaluated end-to-end autonomous driving models.
Drive Sim Intern
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Lightwheel
- Developed a data visualization system for custom synthetic autonomous vehicle simulation data i.e. (bounding boxes, maps, diagnostics) with Python Foxglove framework.
- Developed a synthetic data generation system with Unreal Engine that features keyboard control, customizable sensor modelling for cameras and lidars and smart agent system that utilizes a built-in navigation mechanism in UE.
- Developed and maintained a Python library that contains sensor models and 3D transformation methods.