Ben Zhang
Engineer. Always curious.
Building robots at 1X.
Previously Tesla, Apple, and Waterloo.
Selected work
- Real-time robot control Experimental real-time chunking for SmolVLA in LeRobot.
- WATcloud infrastructure Bare-metal provisioning, distributed storage, scheduling, and observability for a student compute cluster.
- Sensor protection & fault detection Master’s thesis · Waterloo · 2025
- Autonomous racing software Co-authored · Field Robotics · 2024
- findphone A Bluetooth signal meter for lost devices, built with Claude.
- free-sidecar Sidecar support for older Macs and iPads.