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Carnegie Mellon University

Ph.D. in Robotics

Carnegie Mellon University

MS in Robotics

• GPA: 4.14/4.33

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

BSc in Integrative Systems and Design, Computer Science (double major)

• GPA : 3.6/4.3

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Non-degree exchange program

• GPA : 3.9/4.0
• Grainger College of Engineering, Computer Science

Shenzhen Middle School

High School Diploma

• Honor Curriculum
• Gaokao Science track

Starlife Technologies, Inc.

Robotics Research Engineer

• Lead robotics systems R&D for Bella across audio, vision, head gesture control, and wheelbase control
• Built a spherical immersive telepresence experience with panoramic vision
• Developed head-gesture control, reducing head-control traffic by about 90%, and implemented agentic PID tuning for wheelbase control
• Developed a bimanual teleoperation stack supporting laptop or VR control of real and simulated robots
• Resolved a microphone inaudibility issue, substantially improved audio quality, and enabled stereo audio through agentic binaural acoustic calibration

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

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

Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, AirLab

Visiting student intern

• Supervisor: Dr. Peng Yin, Dr. Ji Zhang
• Implemented Online VIO System with Map Prior on Boston Dynamics Spot
• Related work: VINS-Mono, FAST-LIO, Sequence SLAM

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

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026)

Volunteer

HKUST ENTERPRIZE Robomaster Team

Senior Software Engineer

• Built quaternion mathematical library for rigid transformation
• Implemented robust IMU complementary filter and stabilization Gimbal algorithm

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

• ASMPT Technology Bronze Award
• NED EIC Category 4 Champion
• Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Tech FYP Sponsorship

• University's Scholarship Scheme for Continuing Undergraduate Students

• HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund - Reaching Out Award
• Shui On Innovation Fund Student Awards

• Dean's List

• DJI RoboMaster Scholarship
• University Scholarship