Hello, world! I'm a developer and problem-solver.




> Emily.origin
  => "Taiwan (R.O.C)"

> Emily.education
  => "Carnegie Mellon University (Robotics Institute)"

> Emily.major
  => "Computer Science (Computer Vision)"

> Emily.expectedGraduation
  => "Dec. 2021"

> Emily.industrialExperience.current
  => company: "Facebook Reality Lab"
     role: "Research Collaborator"
     location: "Pittsburgh, PA"
     duration: "Jan.2021 - Current"

> Emily.resume
  => "emilychwuu_cv_202105.pdf"

> Emily.interests
  => ["Code", "Coffee", "Aerial Photography", "Bridge"]

> Emily.thoughts
  => ["@linkedin", "@github", "@youtube"]

> Emily.email
  => "cwuu@andrew.cmu.edu"


Résumé

Carnegie Mellon University (Robotics Institute) 2020 - 2021
Computer Vision, M.S. Pittsburgh, PA


Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2015 - 2020
Computer Science, B.S. | First Class Honor
Business Management, B.B.A. | First Class Honor Hong Kong, China

  • Minor : Social Science & Big Data Technology
  • Activities & Societies : Student Ambassador & HKUST Robotics Team
  • Honors : Dean's List, University Scholarship, HKSAR Talent Development Scholarship, HKSAR Reaching Out Scholarship


IESE Business School 2020
Enterpreneurship/ Entrepreneurial Studies (Virtual) Barcelona, Spain


Peking University Fall 2018
Academic Exchange, Guanghua School of Management Beijing, China


ETH Zürich Fall 2017
Academic Exchange, Computer Science Zürich, Switzerland



Facebook Reality Lab Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2021
Research Collaborator Pittsburgh, PA

Investigated neural rendering models’interpolating capacity of viewpoint and expression on real-time face reconstruction.

OpenGLPyTorch3DNV-DiffrastVAENeural RenderingGit


Tencent Youtu Lab Jan. 2019 - Feb. 2019
Software Engineering Intern Shenzhen, China

Documented data collection rules for preserving data-balanced human detection dataset for localization algorithm training; Deployed YOLO3-based neural network model using PyTorch for human attribute localization on mobile devices

YOLO3PyTorchMobileNetObject Detection


Da-Jiang Innovations May 2018 - Sep. 2018
Software Engineering & Algorithm Intern Shenzhen, China

Established a hierarchical and extendable robotics vehicles dataset (20k+ images) for training car detection system; Developed an AR live-stream car detection system with C & C++ for judging system in DJI’s 2019 RoboMaster Competition; Applied neural network with YOLO3 as backbone and model compression via mobileNet, network pruning and model quantization, achieving in 3x faster and 15x smaller compared to original working model

OPENCVYOLO3TensorFlowDarknetMobileNetObject DetectionNetwork PrunningModel Quantization



Cyberport Creative Micro Fund Grant 2021
Cyberport University Partnership Programme Cyberport, Hong Kong


Bronze 2020
Hong Kong ICT Awards: Student Innovation Award OGCIO, Hong Kong


Gold 2019
FinTech Awards ET Net


4th Place 2016
International MATE ROV Competition NASA Robotics


Champion 2016
IET/MATE Hong Kong Underwater Robot Challenge IET Hong Kong






Project

AR Teeth
Swift developer and Project Manager on building an Augmented Reality APP for aesthetic dentistry. This project will be deployed to dentist clinic to bridge the gap between the aesthetic perception of dentists and clients via displaying the real-time visual effect.
Expected to be released on Sep 2021
SwiftAR KitFigma

SIGMA
Gamified Financial Education & Risk Assessment App

Sigma is an award-winning APP in matching ready millennial clients with investment vehicles that best suit their risk preferences, predominantly focuses on gamification of client onboarding and financial intelligence & sentiment analysis.
Presentation Deck
Netify

HAA500 (HKUST)
Human-Centric Atomic Action Dataset with Curated Videos

As an undergraduate researcher supervied by Prof. Chi-Keung Tang and Dr. Yu-Wing Tai Built a human-centric atomic action dataset including 500 fine-grained and hierarchical classes with JavaScript to mitigate issues of coarse class, noisy content and human occlusion for improving performance of action recognition in videos.
Paper | Dataset
Action RecognitionAtomic Action

Anchor-free Object Detection (Princeton)
As an undergraduate researcher supervied by Prof. Jia Deng on establishing training and evaluation pipeline of CornerNet on Open Images dataset with PyTorch from scratch and applied data rebalancing and multi-stages zoom-in to handle data imbalance, crowded scenes, and non-exhaustive data labeling. Achieved best anchor-free detectors (mAP: 58.1%) in 2019 Open Images Challenge-Object Detection (ICCV)
CornerNetOpen ImagesOne-stage Detector

Automobiles and Electric Vehicle (Harvard)
As an undergraduate researcher supervied by Prof. Evelyn Hu, working on designing a simple electric circuit system and a car avoidance function using C++ for personal electric vehicles.
Press
PEVFusion 360

Underwater Remote Operating Vehicles (HKUST)
Worked as an software developer on implementing communication program via ROS and dashboard via QT creator with C++ for remote control for robots .
Press | Video
ROSQTCAN BUS