"In 2016, I was approached by Huawei to be their Chief Scientist and Vice President for VR/AR/MR consumer products. I proposed building a big research center, in the UIUC Research Park, which would be a joint effort between the University of Illinois and Huawei. Both parties were excited, and after a year of preparation, I joined Huawei while retaining a part-time UIUC position. Like many US universities, UIUC had taken in many thousands of high-paying Chinese students in recent years (presumably to help with rising costs and the lack of tax funding). These students were absolutely shocked and thrilled that I was leading this effort, bridging the gaps between China and the US. Needless to say this was eventually doomed in 2017 amid rising nationalism, the eventual US-China trade war, and Huawei being put on the entity list. I nevertheless had a wonderful time working in Huawei and learned so much about consumer product development. I met many hard working, kind, and intellectually interesting people, and thoroughly enjoyed the culture in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Hangzhou."
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Steven M. LaValle
Steven M. LaValle (born 1968 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American computer scientist, and a professor in the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Oulu. He was also an early founder and head scientist of Oculus VR until it was acquired by Facebook in 2014. He is best known for his work on rapidly exploring random trees (RRTs), the Oculus Rift, and his book, Planning Algorithms, one of the most highly cited texts in the field.
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