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 Engineering

Computer 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

End-to-end Autonomoud Driving Algorithm Intern

May 2024 - Aug 2024

Lightwheel AI

  • Designed an autonomous driving simulator with a world physics model and Unreal Engine for rendering that supports end-to-end algorithms for open and closed loop control, using proto and gRPC service for communication.
  • Modified the kinematic and dynamics model from MetaDrive and designed an MPC unit for closed-loop control.
  • Trained an end-to-end autonomous driving algorithm (UniAD) using data collected from a 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstructed scenarios from the nuScenes dataset in the in-house simulator.
  • Developed a CI workflow that automatically adds tags and builds releases of Python packages and Docker images.

Drive Sim Intern

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Lightwheel AI

  • 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.