Chendi Lin


Researcher, engineer, aspiring writer.

Hi, I'm Chendi Lin (林晨笛), a senior behavior-planning engineer for autonomous vehicles at NVIDIA. My work spans motion planning, trajectory selection, and multi-robot systems, informed by earlier roles at AutoX and Waymo and an M.S. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon. Outside engineering, I travel, play sports, write, and am learning the craft of playwriting.

Selected work

Research

ICCV Workshop · 2025 · Oral presentation

Objaverse++: Curated 3D Object Dataset with Quality Annotations

A quality-annotated 3D dataset showing that carefully curated training data can outperform much larger, noisier collections.

1st Workshop on Curated Data for Efficient Learning (CDEL)

Chendi Lin, Heshan Liu, Qunshu Lin, Zachary Bright, Shitao Tang, Yihui He, Minghao Liu, Ling Zhu, Cindy Le

Objaverse++ quality rubric examples

WCSMO · 2017 · Oral presentation

Efficient Optimal Surface Texture Design Using Linearization

A linearized optimization method for designing high-resolution surface textures that reduce friction in lubricated sliding contact.

World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimisation

Chendi Lin, Yong Hoon Lee, Jonathon K. Schuh, Randy H. Ewoldt, James T. Allison

Optimal surface texture design graph