About Me

Here is Ziteng Gao (Michael, 高紫腾).

I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student at Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen(HITSZ), majored in computer science, where I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Shuo Yang.

Before joining HITSZ, I was a MLE at XPENG Motors, focused on end-to-end autonomous driving algorithms, including imitation learning, reinforcement learning, for pretrain, SFT, and RLFT.

More prior, I got my MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from National University of Singapore(NUS), and received my B.Eng. degree in Mechatronics from Harbin Institute of Technology(HIT).

I am always open to academic discussions and potential collaborations. Please feel free to reach out to me at e1010863 [at] u.nus.edu

Latest updated in Feb. 2026

Research Interests

Robotics Learning, Embodied AI, Autonomous Driving
Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, VLA
End-to-end Planning, Locomotion, Manipulation

Experience

Career

Xpeng Moters, Guangzhou, China, Dec 2023 - Feb 2026
- Autonomous Driving Algorithm Engineer (MLE), Autonomous Driving Center
- Design and optimize Xplanner (XPENG Motors self-developed planning model)
- IL-pretrain, SFT, RLFT
Starj.ai, Guangzhou, China, Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
- Intern Planning Algorithm Engineer

Education

National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Jul 2022 - Sep 2023
- MS, Mechanical Engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China, Aug 2018 - Jun 2022
- B.Eng. Mechatronic Engineering
NUS (Suzhou) Research Institute (NUSRI), Suzhou, China, Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
- A educational collaboration by NUS and HIT
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, USA, Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
- Exchange student

News and Updates

Feb. 2026: I have just ended my 2 years MLE journey at XPeng Motors, which is an amazing and fruitful experience.