CV

Heshan Liu

Education

  • 2015-2019

    B.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

  • 2019-2020

    M.S. in Computer Vision

    Carnegie Mellon University

Experience

  • 2025-present

    Co-founder & CTO

    OdyssLife

  • 2021-2025

    Senior Software Engineer

    Pony.ai

    • Owner of the prediction module in the North American autonomous driving stack.
    • Co-owner and core contributor to end-to-end behavioral prediction models.
    • Co-owner and core contributor to world models for simulation and data augmentation.
  • 2020

    Research Intern

    Waymo

    • Built lidar-assisted arrow detection and labeling workflows for driving data.
    • Used active learning and supporting tooling to reduce annotation effort and improve dataset review efficiency.
  • 2018

    Research Intern

    Tencent Youtu

    • Reproduced lightweight vision networks including Xception and MobileNet variants.
    • Ran pruning and efficiency experiments for deployable computer vision models.