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Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Robotics)

Stevens Institute of Technology

M.S. in Control Engineering (Astronautics)

Harbin Institute of Technology

B.E. in Automation (Electrical Engineering)

Zhengzhou University

Software Development Engineer

Amazon, Fuse

• Led the development of a new mobile number OTP-based payment method that allows Amazon to bill mobile carriers directly for Prime subscriptions. (Java, Scala, AWS CDK/SDK, Encryption)
• Automated manual developer workflows by building CLI-based tools and Step Functions state machines, reducing execution times from hours to minutes for 90% of scenarios. (TypeScript, bash, Step Functions, Lambda, React)
• Engineered automated investigation AI agents and standardized operational procedures (SOPs), streamlining incident response for core microservices. (Kiro, Python, AWS CLI)
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features on 10+ microservices and data pipelines. (Smithy, Java, TypeScript, DynamoDB, S3, SQS/SNS, ECS, API Gateway)

Robotics Software Engineer

Amazon, Robotics and AI

• Built the synchronous PLC communication layer for the ORCA robotic workcell - designed a gRPC-based behavior tree mechanism to send blocking commands to PLCs and resolved race conditions in response handling. (Java, gRPC)
• Implemented the infeed subsystem end-to-end, coordinating three parallel robotic feed activities with resource locking and retry logic. (Java)

Staff Robotics Engineer

Seedland Research and Innovation Center

• Developed a collection pose planner for a 3D indoor mapping robot to maximize Lidar coverage with a reasonable number of viewpoints. (C++, OpenCV, ROS, TSP Solver)
• Developed a 3D model viewer with smooth camera trajectory planning. (C++, PCL, Trajectory Planning)

Autonomous Mobile Robot for Guided Walking Exercise

Stevens Institute of Technology

• Developed a ROS package estimating a trainee's dynamic margin of stability in real-time by fusing mobile robot Azure Kinect data and instrumented insole measurements. (C++, Python, ROS, Kalman Filter, Sensor Fusion, IMU, SLAM)
• Contributed to the Microsoft Azure Kinect ROS Driver repository, improving timestamp accuracy and reducing body tracking latency by 70%. (C++, Multithreading)

Mobile Robot Formation Control

Stevens Institute of Technology

• Designed a state-feedback formation control algorithm for a 3-robot system.
• Implemented simulation in V-REP where the control algorithm generated supervisory signals for a decentralized DNN to achieve formation using only Lidar input. (Python, Lua)

Visual-Inertial Navigation for Small UAV

Harbin Institute of Technology

• Implemented a quaternion-based complementary filter for quadcopter attitude estimation on NI myRIO. Won 2nd prize in the annual HIT Virtual Instrumentation Contest. (State Estimation, SfM, LabVIEW)

Mobile Robot Assisted Gait Monitoring and Dynamic Margin of Stability Estimation

Zhuo Chen, Huanghe Zhang, Antonia Zaferiou, Damiano Zanotto, Yi Guo — IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics

Robot-Assisted and Wearable Sensor-Mediated Autonomous Gait Analysis

Huanghe Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Damiano Zanotto, Yi Guo — IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest (NUEDC) - 1st Prize (Henan Province)

Ministry of Education of China

• Project - Rotary Plate Free Pendulum Control System. Implemented coin stability trigger and lookup tables for laser tracking on a 16MHz AVR.

7th "Freescale" Cup National Smart Car University Competition - 3rd Prize (Western Region)

Chinese Association of Automation

• Developed a self-balancing smart car with autonomous obstacle avoidance using linear CCD sensors and PID algorithms.