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Career profile
Alan (Jialiang) Zhao
OpenAI Robotics Research, MIT PhD
San Francisco Bay Area
Career path.
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
Dec 2025 - Present- 1X
Researcher & Engineer
Feb 2025 - Dec 2025 - Toyota Research Institute
Research Intern
May 2024 - Aug 2024 - MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
PHD Student
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025 - Nuro
Autonomous Driving Engineer - Behavior
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022 - National Robotics Engineering Center
Robotics Engineer
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020 - Epson America Inc.
Robotic Manipulation Research Intern
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 - Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
Research Assistant
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020 - UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Undergraduate Researcher
Jul 2017 - May 2018