Teaching and Work Experience

Research Internship at Baidu Inc. (Aug ~ Sept 2023)

Research on pavement abnormality detection in the Vehicle-Road Collaboration R&D Dept.
- Feature a high-recall PicoDet on mobile devices to filter “obviously negative” samples
- Incorporate PP-YOLOE on the cloud to predict the bounds and types of abnormalities
Deliver a presentation on LLM prompting techniques and applications for intelligent traffic
Receive the Outstanding Intern Award as a recognition of contribution

Teaching Assistant of “Introduction to Computing” (Feb ~ Jun 2022)

Guide the students to grasp complex concepts through crafted examples
Provide reasonable, directed, and customized support in coding assignments
Unveil the reasoning behind designs to lay a solid foundation for mastering the ECE stack

Writing Assistant of “Principles of Research” (Feb ~ Jun 2022)

Assist the students in appealing to the audience and crafting solid arguments in their writings
Host group meetings during office hours to discuss common pitfalls and provide feedback

Research Projects

DISSCO: Digital Sound Synthesis and Composition (May ~ Jul 2023)

Supervisor: Sever Tipei Professor Emeritus, NCSA & UIUC iSchool

Familiarize with codes in the full stack (LASSIE frontend, CMOD middleware, LASS backend)
Use C++ to facilitate spatialization, reverberation, and modifiers by partials in a sound
- Implemente the LASS infrastructure to render multiple tracks (channels) for a partial
- Revise the LASSIE interface to pass extra information through the XML document
- Update the workflow in CMOD accordingly to achieve the desired sound effect
Add “partial alignment” scrollboxes to the GUI with gtkmm and Glade

AQOURSNet: Unsupervised Shapelets in Time Series (Jun ~ Aug 2022)

Supervisor: Yang Yang Associate Professor, Zhejiang University

Implement Time2Graph and Time2Graph+ algorithms that model time series as shapelet transitions
Incorporate Graph Attention Network with KMeans clustering to encourage shapelet diversity
Accelerate shapelet extraction by nearly 100% with accuracy comparable to 10 benchmark SOTAs

Resources: Release pack Demo slides Paper Poster

Self-Supervised Semantic Segmentation on 3D Teeth Mesh (Jul 2021)

Supervisor: Zuozhu Liu Member, IEEE

Preprocess 3D point clouds with trimesh and aggregate them into small patches
Implement Bootstrap Your Own Latent and Point-Masked Autoencoder in Pytorch
Fine-tune model parameters with a small amount of manually labeled data

Course Projects

[ECE 411] Pipelined RISC-V Processor (Oct ~ Dec 2023)

Supervisor: Jian Huang Assistant Professor, UIUC

Implement a 5-stage pipelined processor with forwarding and FSM-based hazard control
Develop the generalized PLRU algorithm to fully parameterize the two-level cache
Combine with branch predictor and prefetcher to achieve an IPC of 0.2697

[ECE 385] TrapoTempo: Rhythm Game on FPGA SoC (Apr ~ May 2023)

Supervisor: Zuofu Cheng Teaching Assistant Professor, UIUC

Design a GUI at pixel level with smooth “flowing notes” animation and real-time statistics
Feature the SGTL5000 sound codec, a homemade I2S controller, and SDRAM-based audio playback

Resources: Executable image Demo video User manual

[ECE 391] ZinixOS: A Unix-Like OS (Sept ~ Dec 2022)

Supervisor: Steven Lumetta Associate Professor, UIUC
Zbigniew Kalbarczyk Research Professor, UIUC

Develop various components (RTC, terminal, system call, etc.) of a kernel from scratch
Feature extra functionalities (dynamic malloc, signal handling, etc.) for a fully functional OS
Enter the final showcase and rank Top 5 among 50+ teams

Resources: Executable image Interactive demo User manual Tutorial

[CS 225] Patient Management System (Apr ~ Jun 2022)

Supervisor: Klaus-Dieter Schewe Professor, ZJU-UIUC Institute

Implement fibonacci heap and B+ tree to store patient information and preferences
Stress-test the system to handle thousands of data points and generate weekly reports

Competitions

MCM 2022: Investment Model for Gold and Bitcoin (Feb 2022)

Supervisor: Thomas Honold Professor, ZJU-UIUC Institute

Utilize grey model for short-term and multi-layer perceptron for long-term analysis
Model investors with vision and risk tolerance parameters in the Capital Asset Pricing Model
Achieve a 3200% investment return over 5 years and won the Finalist Award (top 2%)

Voluntary Work

As the deputy team leader, I conducted a two-day volunteer teaching program at Jingdong Minzu Primary School as per the tradition of mutual assistance between ZJU and the Jingdong people.
In the following days, I researched the local food industry and hosted a two-hour online streaming session advertising the agricultural specialties.
I also worked on media coverage and shared my thoughts through articles, videos, and songs.

Let it be code or music, do it like you never did before.