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Yinliang Chen

Software Engineer · AI, RL & autonomy infrastructure

Infrastructurefor machinesthat move.

I'm Yinliang, a software engineer building production systems for autonomous driving and embodied AI: HD maps, robot teleoperation, VLA inference, and the data pipelines behind them.

01Summary

I build production infrastructure for autonomous driving and embodied AI: semantic mapping and HD map delivery, robot manipulation and teleoperation, vision-language-action model inference, multimodal edge data capture, and distributed GPU processing.

Illustrated portrait of Yinliang Chen

Currently

Software Engineer at Tensor Auto

02Experience

Feb 2026 – Present

Tensor Auto

Software Engineer

  • HD map delivery
  • OTA hot reload
  • Service reliability
  • Map data tooling
  1. 01

    Map delivery at scale

    Designed and implemented scalable HD map delivery and serving infrastructure for an autonomous driving platform, including chunked payload publishing and reassembly and a thread-safe registry for concurrent multi-map workloads.

  2. 02

    Continuity on live vehicles

    Hardened map continuity and correctness during live vehicle operation through over-the-air map hot reload and switching fixes, coverage state signaling, concurrency lifetime safeguards, and targeted regression tests.

  3. 03

    Production reliability

    Owned reliability improvements for semantic map services: diagnosed outages, wrote root-cause analyses, added external health monitoring, and implemented graceful degradation for transient dependency failures.

  4. 04

    Integrity and tooling

    Developed map data integrity auditing, automated import, and self-service simulation support tooling, expanding engineering support across mapping and downstream platform consumers.

June 2025 – Feb 2026

WorldEngine AI

Software Engineer

  • Edge data capture
  • Teleoperation
  • VLA inference
  • Distributed GPU processing
  1. 01

    Egocentric capture fleet

    Architected a production multi-stereo egocentric data capture platform running on a fleet of 100+ Raspberry Pi 5 edge devices, with real-time video encoding, IMU/GPS synchronization, health monitoring, and cloud object storage upload.

  2. 02

    Exoskeleton teleoperation

    Extended a manipulation and teleoperation platform to exoskeleton-controlled robot arms and dexterous hand controllers, integrating motor drivers and calibration pipelines for low-latency, real-time control.

  3. 03

    Autonomous inference mode

    Implemented an autonomous inference mode connecting vision-language-action models to real-time robot control, generating actions from multimodal sensor inputs.

  4. 04

    Distributed GPU processing

    Built a fault-tolerant distributed GPU platform for depth estimation, SLAM, human pose and hand processing, and MCAP generation, scaling across an 80-GPU cluster and cutting manual reruns.

  5. 05

    Preview and QA workflow

    Developed authenticated preview and QA workflow systems for video and MCAP data, with faster preview loads and better traceability across daily operations.

03Selected projects

04Research

86Google Scholar citations

2h-index

Google Scholar profile
  1. WACV Workshops · 2024

    A Safer Vision-Based Autonomous Planning System for Quadrotor UAVs With Dynamic Obstacle Trajectory Prediction and Its Application With LLMs

    Jiageng Zhong, Ming Li, Yinliang Chen, Zihang Wei, Fan Yang, Haoran Shen

    55 citations

  2. Sensors 23(7) · 2023

    SLP-Improved DDPG Path-Planning Algorithm for Mobile Robot in Large-Scale Dynamic Environment

    Yinliang Chen, Liang Liang

    31 citations

05Toolkit

Autonomous & embodied AI
  • Semantic mapping
  • HD map systems
  • Robot manipulation
  • Teleoperation systems
  • VLA inference
  • Multimodal sensor pipelines
Systems & infrastructure
  • Distributed systems
  • Concurrent programming
  • GPU orchestration
  • Edge computing
  • Production reliability
  • Observability
Languages
  • C++
  • Python
  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • Java
  • SQL
Frameworks & platforms
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • gRPC
  • ZeroMQ
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure

06Education

  • Yale University

    M.S. in Computer Science

    GPA 4.0 / 4.0

    Aug 2024 – May 2025

  • Wuhan University

    B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology

    GPA 3.93 / 4.0

    Sept 2020 – June 2024

08Raw captures

Photography from off-duty hours. No pipeline, no labels, just frames I liked.

Empty train platform and tracks at night
Tokyo Tower above the city at dusk
Lifeguard tower on a beach at sunset
Fuel pump at a desert station below a hill with a radio mast
Manhattan Bridge framed between brick buildings
Wall of decorated sake barrels
Gothic stone tower against a blue sky
Red torii gate by a lake framed by trees
Weathered wooden pilings in clear water
Palm trees silhouetted against a sunset
City lights seen from a hillside overlook at night
Palm trees under pink clouds over a hazy coast

09Contact

Building somethingthat moves?

Reach out about autonomy infrastructure, robotics systems, or anything in between.