Experience
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Undergraduate Researcher
Adaptive Demo Video — Learning Physical Skills Faster
Advisor: Prof. Yiyue Luo
The lab uses on-body sensing and machine learning to help people learn physical skills faster. I'm on the software side of a three-person team building an adaptive video coach: the instructor video slows down, speeds up, or pauses to match the learner, using the lab's Sensorimotor Stickies (on-body BLE IMU + haptic sensors).
- Extract the instructor's skeleton and joint angles from demo videos with MediaPipe, as the reference motion
- Connect the Stickies' 100 Hz IMU stream to a real-time motion tracker, calibrated against reference movements
- Implement a particle-filter tracker, based on the Gesture Variation Follower, that estimates where the learner is in the demo, how fast they're moving, and when they're lost or holding a pose
Python MediaPipe BLE IMU Signal Processing Particle Filters Sensor Calibration HCI Research -
Founder & President
Founded Fitness Tech in October 2025: a student-led Engineering Student Organization that builds wearable tech for athletic training. It has grown to 25+ members with hundreds of applicants, running six projects across four teams.
Software
Built MyFitnessTech's framework and backend infrastructure, and develop and maintain it with the software team. Set up the Apple and Google developer accounts and shipped it to the App Store and Google Play.
Business & Operations
Lead fundraising and sponsorships, and run the club's meetings and events. Wrote the constitution, handled registration and the ESO conversion, set up the club's banking, and wrote a $10K–$15K Student Technology Fee proposal, now under committee review.
CITI-certified for human-subjects (IRB) research, for the club's research side.
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Undergrad Technical Intern — EE
RF Prototype PCB — Altium Rebuild
Rebuilt an existing RF prototype's schematic and multi-layer layout from scratch in Altium Designer, checked its net topology against the reference design, and the rebuilt design was sent out for fabrication. I also do SMD rework — hot-air reflow, component removal, and fine-pitch hand soldering under a stereo microscope — and bench checks for continuity and power rails.
Altium Designer Multi-Layer PCB RF SMD Rework Bench DebugMini Sensorfish — Fish Passage Through Dams
Mini Sensorfish are autonomous sensors that travel through hydroelectric dams the way a fish would. I analyze their pressure, rotation, and acceleration data to show what fish go through on the way, for environmental impact assessments. I also calibrate the devices, run acceptance tests, and field-test them before they go out to dam sites.
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Christmas Light Tech
Custom holiday lighting installations, safety protocols for elevated work, team training.
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HPC Intern MICRO 2024
AI Hardware — LLM + LNS Architecture Codesign
Compared Logarithmic Number System and floating-point arithmetic for FPGA-based LLM inference accelerators, and contributed to the dynamic data format and architecture codesign. Co-authored the resulting paper, published at MICRO 2024.
LLMs LNS FPGA Accelerators Architecture CodesignPublication
Bridging the Gap Between LLMs and LNS with Dynamic Data Format and Architecture Codesign
Haghi P., C. Wu, Z. Azad, Y. Li, A. Gui, Y. Hao, and A. Li, et al.
MICRO 2024 • Austin, TX • Nov 2024
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Crew Member
I just put the fries in the bag. Sometimes nuggets or even a burger.
