10 Waymo research scientists
Senior Staff Research Scientist / Manager, Staff Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist and Research Scientist are among the titles held today by these Waymo research scientists. A reader can learn what research science at Waymo involves from people who have done it.
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Aaron J. Stern
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Waymo
Aaron J. Stern has been Research Scientist at Waymo since December 2025, based in Berkeley, California, and describes being an applied ML scientist and engineer. Aaron J. Stern was Research Scientist at Harvey from 2024 to 2025, Staff Applied Scientist at Afresh from 2023 to 2024 and Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Afresh from 2022 to 2023.
Bernard Lange
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Waymo
Bernard Lange has been Research Scientist at Waymo since October 2025, a role the profile places in Mountain View, California. Bernard Lange was Graduate Research Assistant at the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory from 2020 to 2025 and a Teaching Assistant at Stanford University in 2019 and 2023.
Chiyu Max Jiang
LinkedInExperience: Senior Staff Research Scientist / Manager · Waymo
Chiyu Max Jiang has been Senior Staff Research Scientist / Manager at Waymo since August 2026, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Chiyu Max Jiang was Staff Research Scientist / Tech Lead Manager (2024–2026), Senior Research Scientist (2022–2024) and Research Scientist (2021–2022) at Waymo, and Senior Applied Research Scientist at Cruise from 2020 to 2021.
Haidong Zhu
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Scientist · Waymo
Haidong Zhu has been Senior Research Scientist at Waymo since August 2026, based in New York, and was Research Scientist at Waymo from 2024 to 2026. Haidong Zhu describes working on multiple projects at Waymo, including mapping, perception and planning, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2024.
Hao Xiang
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Waymo
Hao Xiang has been Research Scientist at Waymo since February 2025, based in Los Angeles, and lists research interests in machine learning, robotics and cooperative perception. Hao Xiang was Research Intern at Waymo in 2024 and Graduate Student Researcher at UCLA from 2021 to 2024.
Jonah Philion
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Scientist · Waymo
Jonah Philion has been Senior Research Scientist at Waymo since June 2025, based in Mountain View, with a headline naming the AI Foundations Team at Waymo. Jonah Philion was Senior Research Scientist (2024–2025) and Research Scientist (2019–2024) at NVIDIA, and Perception Engineer at ISEE from 2018 to 2019.
Liting Sun
LinkedInExperience: Staff Research Scientist · Waymo
Liting Sun has been Staff Research Scientist at Waymo since August 2024, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Liting Sun was Senior Research Scientist (2022–2024) and Research Scientist (2021–2022) at Waymo, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley from 2019 to 2021 and Machine Learning Resident at X, The Moonshot Factory in 2018.
Paul McVay
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist - AI Foundations · Waymo
Paul McVay has been Research Scientist - AI Foundations at Waymo since January 2026, based in Morrison, Colorado. Paul McVay was Research Engineer - FAIR Reinforcement Learning at Meta from 2022 to 2025 and Machine Learning Scientist at Overstock from 2021 to 2022, and describes an Electrical Engineering PhD from Texas A&M specializing in Machine Learning.
Runsheng Xu
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Scientist · Waymo
Runsheng Xu has been Senior Research Scientist at Waymo since February 2025, based in Los Angeles. Runsheng Xu was Research Scientist at Waymo from 2024 to 2025 and Research Intern, Perception and Simulation at Waymo from 2023 to 2024, and was a Researcher PHD Student at UCLA from 2021 to 2023.
Wen Jiang
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Waymo
Wen Jiang has been Research Scientist at Waymo since June 2025, a role the profile places in New York City. Wen Jiang was Machine Learning Intern at Apple in 2024, Research Scientist Intern at Meta in 2023, Visiting Fellow at Microsoft in 2020 and Student Intern at the University of Pennsylvania in 2019.
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