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Ph.D. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Intelligent Control and Estimation of Things Lab

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Safe learning and control for autonomous systems, with formal constraint-satisfaction and safety guarantees

Constrained neural networks and hard constraint satisfaction
Safe-by-design neural network controllers and control barrier functions
Model predictive control, reachability analysis, and safety-critical autonomy

ME 270 Design for Manufacturability

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Advanced Controls Research Laboratory

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Safe autonomy, motion planning, and control for robotic systems

Verifiable perception-control architectures and safety assurance for autonomous vehicles
Robust collision avoidance and safe operation in cluttered environments
Optimization-based motion planning with B-spline continuous-time reference generation for robotic platforms

TAM 212 Introductory Dynamics

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Two-Joint Snake Robot Simulation

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Evaluated isotropic and anisotropic friction effects between the swimmer body and ground in the MuJoCo simulator.
Developed reinforcement-learning control algorithms to move the snake in a desired direction on flat ground.

Online Summer Research Programme

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Noise Effects on Low-Resolution Face Recognition Algorithms

Implemented Identity-Aware LRFR on synthetic and real low-resolution images.
Compared recognition accuracy across synthetic and real inputs.
Demonstrated the performance gap between idealized and real environments.
Evaluated how Gaussian, Poisson, and pepper-and-salt noise affect recognition performance.

Edison.ai

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Independently developed for automated-store customer demand under changing weather, traffic, and time conditions.
Tested Vector Autoregression, Long Short-Term Memory, and Facebook Prophet models, and demonstrated their use on an air-pollution forecasting dataset.
Annotated images with labels for head, hand, and position using makesense.ai to support YOLO-based human-detection models.

Capstone Project

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Low-Resolution Face Recognition Algorithms and Noise Effects

Implemented face detection and alignment with Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Networks on FERET and SCface.
Compared Identity-Aware LRFR with SphereFace for low-resolution face recognition.
Proposed improvements to make LRFR methods more robust to noise in surveillance-style settings.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Scholarship 2021/22

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Smart Turnstile System Based on ToF Sensor

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Developed an intelligent turnstile system suitable for both left-handed and right-handed users.
Integrated Arduino with a ToF sensor to detect gesture-based distance patterns and respond correctly to both left- and right-hand opening motions.

Tsinghua i-Space Innovation Camp

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Developed and presented an intelligent duct-cleaning robot proposal and business plan.

Smart Textiles and Apparel Research Group

Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Worked on a paper-based LED screen embedded in clothing.
Worked on a remotely controlled robot arm based on a piezo sensor.

HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund - Talent Development Scholarship 2020/21

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

HeartFire Education Service Voluntary Teaching Trip

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Led a team of eight volunteers to provide teaching services at a local primary school.

Service-Learning Trip

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Helped construct a treehouse and wooden bridge with around 30 volunteers to improve local tourism and transportation.

HeartFire, 8th Committee

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Promoted volunteer teaching activities with other committee members.
Scheduled interviews for around 200 applicants and supervised the recruiting process to select qualified volunteers for underserved regions.

HeartFire Education Service Voluntary Teaching Trip

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Provided volunteer teaching services to local primary- and high-school students.

Hong Kong Wanren Funding (2019 Globex Julmester @Peking University)

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

B.Eng. (Honors) in Electronic and Information Engineering

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000