Liangfang Chao, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, US

JITX stands for Just In Time for Everything. JITX builds tools to use software to describe/design circuit boards in less time and with fewer errors. JITX utilizes innovative optimization algorithms and also AI-powered solutions.

New York, NY, US

• [March 10, 2022 - June 29,. 2022]: Senstile Challenge: Built a Search Engine with multiple DL models to match textile samples with similar properties based on images from the IR sensor.[June 30, 2022 - present].
• Lead a remote team of 50+ volunteer Machine Learning engineers from multiple countries to develop a tool to capture properties of textiles in order to find similar textiles
• The team explores both traditional Machine Learning and Deep Learning models through either feature extraction or autoencoders
• Facilitate communications and create visualization to help clarify problem statements and limitations
• Manage relationships with partners to ensure the desired product is delivered with the desired timeframe
• Assess performance of team members and encourage volunteer engagement

• Design Curriculum to blend IoT, programming and AI
• Propose product ideas, provide advice on UI, design, functionality based on observation of industry trends in U.S.
• Consult on educational products leveraging trends on latest consumer markets for: Makerspace, Internet of Things, STEM integration, AI, Smart Applications
• Provide advice on open source tools to integrate Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning into their mobile App
• The product (educational kits with microcontroller and sensors) has been enhanced to use Blockly to provide block-programming interface and include: voice-to-text control, facial recognition, objective identification

• YAPA connects passionate community advocates with high schoolers to study local issues
• Design programs to teach functions at different levels of government, advocacy, research and public speaking
• Recruit mentors and convince them to commit to 10 weekly meetings with students
• Invite speakers who are elected officials or community leaders by leveraging personal connections
• Host press conferences and form relationship with reporters in radio, TV and newspapers

Peachtree Corners, Georgia, US

• Design curriculum and supplemental materials for JavaScript and Scratch
• Mentor junior instructors on student engagement with Computer Science concepts

San Francisco, US

• Delta Analytics, San Francisco, CA – Fellow (volunteer for Data Science project)
• Data cleaning and analysis in Python of website search data for InPlay, which provides information for low-cost/free and also market-rate afterschool classes for several school districts to target underprivileged.
• Analyze pattern of website visits and identify geological locations of visitors

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Implemented tools in Python to automate the manual process to capture microscopic images and calibrate the controls for electronic beams mostly on Linux and partly on Windows.
• Generated spreadsheet of test result using pandas/numpy and created quiver plot, scatter plot, polar plot to visualize the results
• Created command script interpreter and GUI tools for fast prototyping and east of testing
• Implemented some basic image processing algorithms to filter out noise and template matching and displacement using cv2.

• Created materials for STEAM-related afterschool enrichment classes
• Hosted STEAM competitions to promote innovation mindset using a programmable IoT kit
• 40 students, formed 13 teams, from 6 different cities participated in the competition

San Jose, California, US

• C/C++, Perl, TCP/IP. Compiler, Synthesis, Parallel Computing. Performance OptimizationFor emulators using arrays of FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) or custom Microprocessors, the challenge of the software compiler.
• Outstanding ability to independently understand the complex source code base, evolved from generations of software releases through multiple companies
• Contributed to various areas of the hardware compiler spanning: parsing Hardware Description Languages, scheduling, code generation, clustering/partitioning into chips, memory mapping, mapping to ALUs, distributed.
• Expertise in runtime, data structure and memory optimization and compile flow improvement
• Expertise in comprehending complex algorithms and data structures in legacy code through tracing and analysis__Project Leadership__
• Led the specification and implementation of workflow, complex features, unit and integration test plans in several software releases

• Promoted to Engineering Manager responsible for the Core Compiler group, from chip partitioning, board partitioning, to mapping to FPGAs
• Led a team to comprehend and to improve complex clustering and partition algorithms, in order to map logic gates to FPGA chips

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• Collaborated with a team of researchers to create VHDL (Hardware Description Language) model for data path synthesis for various filters used in MPEG-4 Image compression

Ames, Iowa, US

• Designed and delivered undergraduate courses on Logic Design, and graduate-level courses on Algorithms and Optimization for VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits) Design
• Mentored graduate students on research projects for their Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in: datapath synthesis, high-level synthesis, routing and retiming

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering