Experience

Altek Corporation

• Taiwan
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Tech lead in AI-BU

  • May 2021 - Present

  Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Taiwan ● Led a team to develop the head pose and eyelid-opening ratio estimation of the Driver-Monitor System (DMS) running on Altek's AI acceleration chip with approved quality by our customer. ● Hosted a research project for developing the gaze estimation module that resulted in a pure-image-based DL model that achieves 3.5deg MAE without calibration. ● Proposed and developed several technical breakthroughs, including Extended-Information Filter (EIF) as a nonlinear solver for PnP problems… Show more ● Led a team to develop the head pose and eyelid-opening ratio estimation of the Driver-Monitor System (DMS) running on Altek's AI acceleration chip with approved quality by our customer. ● Hosted a research project for developing the gaze estimation module that resulted in a pure-image-based DL model that achieves 3.5deg MAE without calibration. ● Proposed and developed several technical breakthroughs, including Extended-Information Filter (EIF) as a nonlinear solver for PnP problems, two NN design solutions for general biased/noisy data in regression problems, ...etc. ● Researching and developing an in-house Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) solution for accepting ONNX floating-point models as the AI toolchain's input. Show less



National Tsing Hua University

• Taiwan
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Instructor of DIT Robotic, a student club in National Tsing-Hua University

  • May 2020 - Present

  Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Taiwan Invited by Prof. R.-S. Chen. (a non-profit voluntary job once per month) ● Inspired and guided the student team to learn and realize the state-of-the-art techniques for mobile robots, e.g., SLAM/dynamic-path-planning/robot arm ctrl./…etc. ● On behalf of Taiwan, the team received 4th place, the highest rank for Taiwan in history, in the latest (2022) Eurobot international robot competition after being guided by myself for the past two years.



Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)(工業技術研究院, 工研院)

• Taiwan
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Lead

  • Apr 2020 - Apr 2021

  Hsinchu County, Taiwan ● Helped a Taiwanese company upgrade their existing transporting platform to Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) with automatic-planning ability by integrating with the latest sensors and algorithms. (May. 2020~Jul. 2020) ● Hosted the Autonomous Mobile Forklift (AMF) project that was eventually installed in a warehouse within seven months. (Sep. 2020~Apr.2021)

• Autonomous Driving Software Engineer

  • Apr 2019 - Apr 2021

  Hsinchu County, Taiwan ● Designed the fail-safe mechanisms for the Self-Driving Bus to raise the safety factor by abnormality checking and automated issue report. ● Redesigned the architecture of the software stack, hardware, and networking for the Mobiletron co. project with two times performance increase. ● Served as a designer to determine the specification for perception modules based on the overall specification of the Self-Driving Bus. ● Developed an efficient OpenGL-based 3D visualizer for displaying… Show more ● Designed the fail-safe mechanisms for the Self-Driving Bus to raise the safety factor by abnormality checking and automated issue report. ● Redesigned the architecture of the software stack, hardware, and networking for the Mobiletron co. project with two times performance increase. ● Served as a designer to determine the specification for perception modules based on the overall specification of the Self-Driving Bus. ● Developed an efficient OpenGL-based 3D visualizer for displaying the internal data of the Self-Driving System with up to 60fps refreshing rate, which was successfully demonstrated during the ITRI Techday 2019.



Advanced Robotics Co.

• Project Lead

  • Sep 2017 - Mar 2019

  Neihu District, Taiwan ● Led a team of 4 engineers in the 6-engineer company to design the AMR250 from scratch in 6 months, which have been deployed to CitiGO hotels at Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou for at least 6 months of operation (CitiGO Shanghai: Jun. 2018~ Mar. 2019, CitiGO Beijing: Sep. 2018~ Mar. 2019, CitiGO Hangzhou: Oct. 2018~Mar. 2019). ● Management the outsourcing of the design and layouts of 5 PCBs which worked stably during 6-month operation and reduced the reproduction cost of the AMR250.

• Senior Engineer

  • Mar 2017 - Mar 2019

  Neihu District, Taiwan ● Improved the hardware and firmware design of the service robot (Adamgo) for achieving precise and smooth motion and deployed the robot to NovaVision (an ophthalmology department) in Beijing (Mar. 2017~Oct. 2017). ● Improved mobile robots' navigation performance (Adamgo and AMR250) by developing auxiliary navigation and localization systems. ● Designed a two-stage hand-shaking mechanism of robot’s charging interface for ensuring safety.



National Tsing Hua University

• Taiwan
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Sep 2016 - Feb 2017

  Hsinchu, Taiwan Dynamic Systems and Control Lab. hosted by Prof. Ting-Jen, Yeh. ● Completed the theorem of anti-slip control for a wheeled inverted-pendulum vehicle ● Transferred the knowledges and technologies developed for the anti-slip control system into other projects in the Lab. and published research papers. ● Transformed the lab. from a classical control lab. into a computing control lab.