HAOTIAN ZHANG / SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Haotian Zhangbuilds intelligent systems forsimulation, manufacturing,and real operations.

I design production-minded pipelines that connect synthetic data, structured evaluation, and operational software. Current focus: a Lean Activity Management Platform used at enterprise scale and a CARLA-based hazard analysis workflow built for measurable results.

Selected Work

Two systems that define the portfolio.

Lean Activity Management Platform

Built an enterprise-scale platform that turns continuous-improvement work into a searchable, governed operating system with fast retrieval, analytics, and role-based access.

Open project

Traffic Detection System

Built a CARLA-based multimodal workflow for hazardous interaction analysis, covering scenario generation, data cleaning, inference, validation, and benchmark comparison.

Open project

How I Work

I work like an operator, not a demo author.

The goal is not just to make systems run once. The goal is to make them measurable, maintainable, and useful after the first presentation is over.

01 / MODEL

Frame the system around real inputs.

I start from the operating context: data sources, handoff points, and the constraints that matter when a system has to survive beyond the lab.

02 / EVALUATE

Build structure for validation.

I care about scoring, retrieval speed, comparison baselines, and clean interfaces between stages so results can be defended, not just shown.

03 / OPERATE

Design for long-term use.

I prefer systems with governed access, understandable workflows, and maintainable foundations over prototypes that look complete but cannot carry real work.

Profile

Embedded systems background. Production software mindset.

I hold a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.Eng. in Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems from UC Irvine. If you want the fuller background, the project archive, or the writing side, the rest of the site is structured for that.