Education & Experiences

Work Experience

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  • AI/ML Engineer (Freelance), Iago Education, San Mateo, CA (2023 - 2024)
  • Staff ML Engineer, Twitter, San Francisco, CA (2019 - 2023)
  • R&D Engineer, Sr. II, Synopsys, Mountain View, CA (2015 - 2018)
  • Research Intern, Intel, Hillsboro, OR (2011)

Education

  • M.S./Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA (2008 - 2015)
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan (2004 - 2008)

Training Programs

  • AI Bootcamp for Machine Learning Engineers, deeplearning.ai (July 2018) (Certificate)

MOOC

  • CSMM.102x: Machine Learning, edX/Columbia University (Completed May 2018) (Certificate)
  • Deep Learning Specialization, Coursera/deeplearning.ai (Completed March 2018) (All Certificates)
    • Neural Networks and Deep Learning
    • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization
    • Structuring Machine Learning Projects
    • Convolutional Neural Networks
    • Sequence Models

Academic Experience

  • Guest Lecturer, Penn State University (2020)
    • IST 261 Application Development Studio
  • Research Assistant, with Prof. Deming Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008 - 2015)
  • Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009 - 2014)
    • ECE 527 System-on-Chip Design
    • ECE 412 Microcomputer Laboratory
    • ECE 385 Digital Systems Laboratory
    • ECE 298 Digital System Design Laboratory
      • Developed two labs on system-on-a-chip and embedded systems, including a USB (Universal Serial Bus) driver and an AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) decryption system. (C/SystemVerilog)
  • Guest Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009 - 2014)
    • ECE 527, ECE 385, ECE 298
  • Reviewer
    • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
    • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
    • ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Array