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China

• Conduct literature review on ML approaches (Reinforcement Learning) to optimize HVAC power efficiency in BEMS (Building Energy Management System), while ensuring occupants’ comfort.
• Analyze a building’s historical dataset on feasibility to train Reinforcement Learning agent for optimization.

• Teach Database Principles, a data science master course.

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

• Constructed data pipeline for automatic events annotation using unlabelled images of ~2-hour driving, (via inference of pretrained detector, hand-crafted engineering rules), for unknown events mining, re-simulation.
• Built shallow neural networks from scratch, leveraged the time series logs of ~200 vehicles kinematics e.g. XYZ and rotations, to predict how drivers throttle/brake/steer, thus, to imitate the driving style of each.
• Subjectively evaluate the performance of vision perception for autonomous valet parking, particularly object detector, line detector and free space detector, that are fine-tuned to detect obstacles, lane markers and.

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

• Applied design thinking wheel methodologies, identified car consumers pain points and top-10 highly desired features.
• Collaborated with graphic designers, building communication bridge between design studio and engineering team.
• Derived product functional / system requirements according to desired features.
• Designed software framework for car connectivity (V2X) features in ADAS, applied strictly modular design for the robustness of production-level software that targets not only one single car model.
• Owned a software repository, kept iterated over 2+ years and assured that team-mates loved to contribute.
• Led design validation tests, in both unit test and system integrated test, leveraging simulation, HW-in-Loop, Vehicle-in-Loop.

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

• Delivered fully automated parking features to local 2B clients, being held accountable for all technical matters.
• Led a project technical team of 20+ engineering members across different functions.
• Supervised the delivery milestones, organized in engineering tasks e.g. system requirements documentation, sensors mechanical design, ECU chip selection, PCB layout, basic software design, software testing.
• Balanced the trade-off between cost (supplier selection), long-term quality (in-house development), and delivery timeline (outsourcing).

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

• Practically implemented / homologated assisted parking system for local target vehicle models.
• Ran simulation tests for 12 ultrasonic sensors per vehicle to optimize parking slot detection.
• Calibrated parameters for ultrasonic sensors, odometry and map construction algorithm in 20+ projects per year.
• Performed both in-lab and on-road validation tests on automated parking features, analysed test data, wrote reports on 100+ tests throughout 3+ years.

Shanghai City, China

• Served car dealers of JLR & VW on the maintenance of cars refrigerant recyclers.
• Trained on-site technicians regularly (~ two times per month per dealer) on the usage of Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers.
• Communicated technical issues of the equipments for troubleshooting, aiming to resolve the issues in one single day on-site visit.

Shanghai Suburb, China

• Supplied investment strategy inputs to portfolio planning of Cadillac brand during the five-month internship
• Provided ~10 competitors intelligence insights on vehicle infotainment systems (central dashboard).
• Benchmarked autonomous driving features of ~5 competitors, which either automatically or semi-automatically controlled a car's acceleration, brake and steering.
• Sharpened my data analysis skills throughout this five-month internship, the earliest chapter of career.

Shanghai Suburb, China

• Supported for endurance tests on engine air intake manifolds.

Bachelor (Be), Automotive Engineering

Master (Mtech), Data Science

Courses: Database, Machine learning, Cloud computing using GCP etc. Graduation project: Diffusion models on time series imputation and.