About
Xavier Chi was a technical lead at Google working on internet infrastructure projects and studied electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Xavier (Tianhao) Chi @chitianhao
Robots will free people from the most brutal parts of warehouse work. Most tasks still change every day so they stay unautomated. Imagine teaching a robot a new task in minutes, in plain language. That is what we are building at @mbodiai https://t.co/iqcJ8qkLPR
Dec 2, 2025 · ♥ 4
Xavier (Tianhao) Chi @chitianhao
EP 1.3 A 90% success rate sounds great… until you need to do it 10 times in a row. That’s only 30% success. In factories & warehouses, that’s catastrophic. Robots can’t afford to "hallucinate". At @mbodiai, reliability is #1. #robotics #ai #automation #generativeai https://t.co/VJpZJzzAVW
Aug 11, 2025 · ♥ 3 · ⇄ 1
Xavier (Tianhao) Chi @chitianhao
EP 1.2: Closing the gap in robot software Robotics math has been around since the 60s. But real-world systems? Still clunky, until now. With generative AI and @mbodiai , robots are finally catching up. #robotics #ai #automation #generativeai https://t.co/oPdmWlwGH2
Jul 28, 2025 · ♥ 7 · ⇄ 1
Founder at Mbodi AIYC X25
Intro paths
Xavier went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Mbodi AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Xavier can intro founders to Mbodi AI's investors below.
Mbodi AI's investors · 11
Co-founders at Mbodi AI
Experience
- Mbodi AICo-Foundercurrent2024 — presentNew York, New York, United States
- GoogleSoftware Engineer (TL)2020 — 2024New York, New York, United States
- GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2019New York, New York, United States
- Decentralized Systems LabGraduate Research Assistant2019Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
- The Apache Software FoundationCommitter2017 — 2019
- YahooSoftware Engineering Intern2017 — 2019Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
- ACM, Association for Computing MachineryChair of SIGNeuro ACM@UIUC2016 — 2017Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Education
- University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering2014 — 2018
- Y CombinatorX25
- University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster's degree, Computer Engineering2019 — 2020
Skills & more
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JavaScriptCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Machine LearningComputer NetworkingNetwork SecurityLinux KernelComputer Securityx86 AssemblyAlgorithmsreStructuredTextLanguages Chinese · English · Japanese
- Machine Learning Specialization — Stanford Online
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Also worked at The Apache Software Foundation6
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