Asuka Zheng
Senior software engineer with a physics background, specializing in distributed systems, database kernel development, and AI. Building robust safety frameworks and scalable pipelines for embodied agents.
Experience
Research Lead
Gradient Network
Leading research initiative to develop autonomous AI systems for production-level distributed system management. Designing benchmarks targeting AIOpsLab, ITBench, and NetPress. Building multi-agent systems with memory and search functionality for distributed cloud environments.
Research Engineer & Founding Engineer
USC Viterbi School & World Engine Startup
Built comprehensive robot data agent system using S3, message queues, multi-agent architecture, and GPU framework (Ray). Developed low-latency dataset platform. Co-authored paper submitted to CoRL using state-of-the-art ML models.
Senior Software Engineer
Grab
Led team of 5 engineers building AI-powered assistant for infrastructure platform. Recognized as go-to Redis expert within Grab. Built real-time ETL pipeline for Knowledge Graph. Founded and chaired Grab's Mental Health Community.
Software Engineer
Shopee
Joined data management system development team. Gained experience with Java tech stacks and demonstrated rapid learning abilities.
Redis Kernel Developer
Kingsoft Cloud
Led development as core Redis developer, implementing Hybrid Storage, HA Control Thread, and Redis Proxy. Provided technical support for top-tier companies: Xiaomi, Bilibili, and ByteDance.
Research
Robot Learning from Any Images (RoLA)
Accepted by CoRL
Led development of scalable data pipeline transforming single images into interactive, physics-enabled robotic environments.
Vision-Language Planning Benchmark
Submitting to AAAI (Co-First Author)
Co-leading comprehensive benchmark evaluation of VLM zero-shot planning capabilities across multiple models (GPT-4.1, InternVL3, QwenVL2.5, Gemma3).
Education
B.S. Physics
Nanjing University, China
Courses: PDE, Statistical Physics, Operating Systems, Quantum Mechanics, Database Systems, Computer Networks