Bruce Zhang

AI & Robotics @ UPenn | Prev @ Google, Amazon Robotics | EE & CS @ Hopkins

San Francisco Bay Area

About

I am a founder, engineer, and researcher. My passion includes AI, Robotics, and Software Products & Infra. I also spend my time in product development and business. - Extensive industry experience at Google, Amazon Robotics, and WeRide, focusing on AI/ML infrastructure and products. - Research on AI and robotics at UPenn, JHU, and United Imaging. - Serial founder, most recently at KnoWhiz, where I led the development of an AI learning agent. - I'm an honored graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where I was recognized with the Charles A. Conklin Award from the ECE department

Experience

  • Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
    Feb 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    Robot Learning and Physical Intelligence at GRASP Lab

  • Software Engineer Intern at Google
    May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 4 mos

    Cloud AI & Infra - ensure high availability of Google’s AI/ML Platforms (GPU, TPU) and data center automation

  • Software Engineer Intern at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics
    Jan 2025 - May 2025 · 5 mos

    Build Amazon Robotics robots manipulation with better scalability, observability, and users experience🦾

  • Co-Founder & Tech Lead at KnoWhiz
    Jan 2024 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Led a team to develop an AI learning agent: - Cloud infrastructure - GenAI Pipeline - Backend services - Monetization - User Interface - Team management

  • AI & Robotics Researcher at LCSR JHU Robotics
    Feb 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Computer Vision and Deep Learning research - Vision-guided surgical robotics and digital-twins, robot perception, Vision Language Model, and medical images segmentations