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Career profile

Alan (Jialiang) Zhao

OpenAI Robotics Research, MIT PhD

San Francisco Bay Area

Career path.

  1. OpenAI

    Member of Technical Staff

    Dec 2025 - Present
  2. 1X

    Researcher & Engineer

    Feb 2025 - Dec 2025
  3. Toyota Research Institute

    Research Intern

    May 2024 - Aug 2024
  4. MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

    PHD Student

    Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
  5. Nuro

    Autonomous Driving Engineer - Behavior

    Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
  6. National Robotics Engineering Center

    Robotics Engineer

    Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
  7. Epson America Inc.

    Robotic Manipulation Research Intern

    Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
  8. Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute

    Research Assistant

    Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
  9. UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)

    Undergraduate Researcher

    Jul 2017 - May 2018