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General Information

Full Name Mukai Yu
Date of Birth 4th Feburary 2001
From Shenzhen, Guandong, China
Languages Mandarin Chinese, English

Education

Experience

  • 2023 Sept - Dec
    Huawei, Hong Kong Research Center, Design Automation Lab
    Research Intern
    • Participating in software development of EDA design verification via emulation on FPGA
    • Research on multiprocessor scheduling algorithm for EDA Netlist
  • 2023 Jan - Aug
    Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, AirLab
    Research Associate I
    • Supervisor: Professor Sebastian Scherer
    • Publish IEEE IROS paper & release thermal image dataset for object detection
      • WIT-UAS: A Wildland-Fire Infrared Thermal Dataset to Detect Crew Assets from Aerial Views
    • Lead hardware & perception algorithm development of the WildFire Project
    • Redesign & manufacture Open Research Drone
    • Develop & deploy SSD object detection deep learning model on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier with hardware acceleration
  • 2022 May - Aug
    Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, AirLab
    Visiting student intern
  • 2021 May - Aug
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Undergraduate Research Opportunity program
    • Supervisor: Professor Dan Xu
    • Researched in real-time 3D reconstruction SLAM unsupervised deep learning algorithms
    • Compared depth estimation results on different unannotated video datasets
    • Reported algorithm summary of 10+ papers

Extracurriculum

  • 2019 - 2020
    HKUST ENTERPRIZE Robomaster Team
    Senior Software Engineer
    • Built quaternion mathematical library for rigid transformation
    • Implemented robust IMU complementary filter and stabilization Gimbal algorithm
  • 2018 - 2019
    Robomaster Robotics High School Summer/Winter Camp
    Runner-up Team
    • Participated consecutively 4 cohorts : 2018 winter & summer, 2019 winter & summer
    • Lead Embedded, Software, and Mechanical development, captain last time
    • Built robots with Mecanum wheel Omnidirectional chassis and pneumatic actuator from scratch in 2 weeks

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • ASMPT Technology Bronze Award
    • Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Tech FYP Sponsorship
  • 2022
    • HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund - Reaching Out Award
    • Shui On Innovation Fund Student Awards
  • 2021
    • Dean's List
  • 2019
    • DJI RoboMaster Scholarship
    • University Scholarship

Course work

  • 2023 Fall
    COMP 5222 Advanced Machine Learning with Graphs
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • Topics : Graph based semi-supervised learning, Network embedding, Graph neural networks, Graph subgraph isomorphism, Knowledge Graphs
  • 2022 Fall
    COMP 6411B Advanced Topics in 2D and 3D Deep Visual Scene Understanding
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • Topics : Semantic Segmentation, Depth Estimation, 2D/3D Object Detection, Multi-Task Learning, 3D Scene Reconstruction, Implicit Representation Learning, Visual SLAM
  • 2022 Fall
    COMP 4421 Image Processing
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • Topics : Image Filtering, Compression, Segmentation, Registration, Morphological Processing, Description, Recognition
  • 2022 Spring
    CS 498 Machine Perception
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Topics : SLAM, 3D reconstruction, Object Detection, Bayesian Filter
  • 2022 Spring
    CS 446 Machine Learning
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Topics : discriminative models, generative models, reinforcement learning models
  • 2022 Spring
    CS 425 Distributed Systems
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Topics : distributed transactions, consensus, mutual exclusion, concurrency control
  • 2021 Fall
    COMP 5411 Advanced Computer Graphics
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • Topics : 3D model representation and manipulation, rendering, GPU computing
    • Rendering Project - Music Visualizer

Skills

Programming C/C++ · Python (NumPy & PyTorch) · Javascript · HTML · CSS · GLSL
Software Ubuntu · ROS · Docker · Solidworks · Web Development · Mobile Applications · vSLAM
Languages Mandarin Chinese (Native) · English (TOEFL: 104/120 with Speaking 28/30)

Academic Interests

  • Robotic Perception
    • SLAM
    • 3D reconstruction
    • Object detection, instance tracking
  • Exploration and Planning
    • Multi-robot planning
  • Control

Hobbies

  • Sport : Basketball, Table Tennis, Water Sport
  • Museum, Movie, Hiking
  • Baking
  • Video Gaming