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General Information
Full Name | Mukai Yu |
Date of Birth | 4th Feburary 2001 |
From | Shenzhen, Guandong, China |
Languages | Mandarin Chinese, English |
Education
- 2019 - NOW
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
BSc in Integrative Systems and Design, Computer Science (double major)
- GPA : 3.6/4.3
- 2022 Spring
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Non-degree exchange program
- GPA : 3.9/4.0
- Grainger College of Engineering, Computer Science
- On-campus experience
- 2016 - 2019
Research Experience
- 2023 - NOW
Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, the AirLab
Research Associate I
- Supervisor: Dr. Sebastian Scherer
- Working on the WildFire Project
- 2022 Summer
Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, the AirLab
Visiting student intern
- Supervisor: Dr. Peng Yin, Dr. Ji Zhang
- Implemented Online VIO System with Map Prior on Boston Dynamics Spot
- IEEE TIE Paper to be submitted
- Related work
- VINS-Mono
- FAST-LIO
- Sequence SLAM
- Omnidirectional camera
- 2021 Summer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Undergraduate Research Opportunity program
- Supervisor: Professor Dan Xu
- Researched in real-time 3D reconstruction SLAM unsupervised deep learning algorithms
- Compared depth estimation results on different unannotated video datasets
- Reported algorithm summary of 10+ papers
Extracurriculum
- 2019 - 2020
HKUST ENTERPRIZE Robomaster Team
Senior Software Engineer
- Built quaternion mathematical library for rigid transformation
- Implemented robust IMU complementary filter and stabilization Gimbal algorithm
- 2018 - 2019
DJI Robomaster Robotics High School Summer/Winter Camp
Runner-up Team
- Participated consecutively 4 cohorts : 2018 winter & summer, 2019 winter & summer
- Lead Embedded, Software, and Mechanical development, captain last time
- Built robots with Mecanum wheel Omnidirectional chassis and pneumatic actuator from scratch in 2 weeks
Honors and Awards
- 2022
- HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund - Reaching Out Award
- Shui On Innovation Fund Student Awards
- 2021
- Dean's List
- 2019
- DJI RoboMaster Scholarship
- University Scholarship
Course work
- 2022 Fall
COMP 6411B Advanced Topics in 2D and 3D Deep Visual Scene Understanding
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Topics : Semantic Segmentation, Depth Estimation, 2D/3D Object Detection, Multi-Task Learning, 3D Scene Reconstruction, Implicit Representation Learning, Visual SLAM
- 2022 Fall
COMP 4421 Image Processing
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Topics : Image Filtering, Compression, Segmentation, Registration, Morphological Processing, Description, Recognition
- 2022 Spring
CS 498 Machine Perception
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Topics : SLAM, 3D reconstruction, Object Detection, Bayesian Filter
- 2022 Spring
CS 446 Machine Learning
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Topics : discriminative models, generative models, reinforcement learning models
- 2022 Spring
CS 425 Distributed Systems
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Topics : distributed transactions, consensus, mutual exclusion, concurrency control
- 2021 Fall
COMP 5411 Advanced Computer Graphics
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Topics : 3D model representation and manipulation, rendering, GPU computing
- Rendering Project - Music Visualizer
Skills
Programming | C/C++ · Python (NumPy & PyTorch) · Javascript · HTML · CSS · GLSL |
Software | ROS · Android Studio · Solidworks · Rhino · Blender · Meshroom |
Languages | Mandarin Chinese (Native) · English (TOEFL: 104/120 with Speaking 28/30) |
Academic Interests
-
Robotic Perception
- SLAM
- 3D reconstruction
- Object detection, instance tracking
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Exploration and Planning
- Multi-robot planning
-
Control
Hobbies
- Sport : Basketball, Table Tennis, Water Sport
- Museum, Hiking
- Baking
- Video Gaming