Chulong Chen
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Senior Engineering Manager @ Waymo | Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Experience
Senior Engineering Manger, Simulation with ML/GenAI Waymo · 2025 - Present
Senior Principal Engineer Manager, Next Generation Autonomy Senior Principal Engineer Manager, Next Generation Autonomy Motional · 2023 to Jan 2025
Milpitas, California, United States ·
- Lead and manage the Next Generation Autonomy team to deliver cutting-edge solutions for autonomous driving systems.
- Pioneer and execute the transition from a LiDAR-first perception approach to a Radar-Vision first end-to-end sensing-perception paradigm.
- Deliver a robust solution for a radar pipeline that emulates LiDAR capabilities, optimizing for performance, cost, and scalability.
- Foster innovation and continuous improvement, keeping abreast of the latest advancements in perception systems and autonomous technology.
- Collaborate cross-functionally for the development and scaling of an autonomous system encompassing data collection, model training, validation, and deployment.
- Align with engineering, product, and other teams to ensure alignment and achievement of company goals.
- Define, monitor, and analyze metrics to evaluate the effectiveness and quality of sensing and perception systems.
TLM, Perception TLM, Perception Nuro · 2021 - 2022
Intel Corporation Intel Corporation
Research Scientist AI/ML Research Scientist AI/ML Full-timeFull-time 2017 - 2021 · 4 yrs2017 to 2021 · 4 yrs San Francisco Bay AreaSan Francisco Bay Area
- Founding scientist of Intel’s high-resolution automotive radar program*. Inventor of Intel’s key patents in AI-enabled 4D high-resolution radar
- Lead the research project of AI radar perception system enabling “drive-by radar” capability
- Designed Intel’s first 79 GHz perception-ready imaging radar’s system specification, architectures, waveform, and DSP algorithms.
- Developed ray-tracing based end-to-end radar simulation pipeline for modeling/tradeoff of RF, algorithms and perception dataset generation.
- Nominated 2021 Gordy Awards for pioneering works in the development of imaging radar system and radar perception pipeline
Wireless Systems Engineer Wireless Systems Engineer 2016 - 2017 ·
- Architect and designed of advanced wireless physical layer (PHY) air interface for NR-5G standard
- Designed advanced PHY and MAC algorithms for world's first 5G MTP achieving 1.6Gbps link speed
- Pioneered the introduction of ML methods in 5G PHY layer
- Led the development of 5G link-level simulator
Education
Purdue University
Ph.D., Electrical and Electronics EngineeringPh.D., Electrical and Electronics Engineering
2011 - 2013
Activities and societies: Eta Kappa NuActivities and societies: Eta Kappa Nu
Purdue University
Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Computer EngineeringMaster of Science (MS), Electrical and Computer Engineering
2008 - 2011
Activities and societies: Eta Kappa NuActivities and societies: Eta Kappa Nu
Fudan University
Bachelor, EngineeringBachelor, Engineering
2004 - 2008
