ALEXANDER WANG

UofT Engineering Science — Robotics

About Me

Hi, I'm Alex. I'm an engineer, pilot, and creator with over 4 years of experience. I love building robots and getting them in people's hands.

Currently: AI Researcher at TRAIL Lab, University of Toronto

Education: University of Toronto, Engineering Science — Robotics (AI Minor)

SpaceX

Software Engineering Intern · May 2025 – Aug 2025

Designed PLC-based controller architecture for Hardware-in-the-Loop test systems, reducing downtime by 87%.
General Motors

Software & Controls Intern · May 2024 – Apr 2025

Developed thermal control system software and automated SIL testing pipeline for EV propulsion.
aUToronto

State Estimation Lead · Sep 2023 – Jun 2025

Led autonomous vehicle team to back-to-back 1st place finishes at SAE AutoDrive Challenge.
TRAIL Lab

AI Researcher · May 2024 – Present

Developing Bayesian 3D lane detection and 3D hierarchical scene graphs for VLA models.

TARS-AI

Co-founded an open-source robotics community recreating the robot TARS from Interstellar — 1000+ members.
BoreasLane

First publicly available 3D winter condition lane dataset for autonomous vehicles.
aUToronto

C++ multi-sensor fusion for autonomous vehicle state estimation — back-to-back 1st place at SAE AutoDrive.
SynthBoard

Audio synthesizer with 4x4 button interface, RGB LEDs, and 8 knobs for real-time waveform manipulation.