Kevin Xu | Computer Engineer

Hi, I'm Kevin Xu.

An overly curious person with the skills of an engineer.

About

I am an engineer who likes to build stuff. My main skill is in computer software but I do my own hardware, circuitry and mechanical when my projects call for it. I am in search of useful stuff to make.

Experience

Altera (an Intel comperny)

Software Application Engineer

oneAPI for FPGA Application Engineering:
- Developing oneAPI FPGA reference designs such as Singular Value Decomposition and tutorial designs like IP Component Interfaces Compairson and oneAPI FPGA compile.
- Supporting development of the oneAPI FPGA compiler such as feature review and checkout.
- Supporting custermer designs based on oneAPI.
FPGA AI Suite Solution Engineering:
- Creating demonstration programs using the FPGA AI suites to show case real world application.
- Supporting the development of the FPGA AI Suite Compiler.
- Supporting and developing custermer solutions using FPGA AI Suite.

May 2022 - present

Drone Delivery Canada

UAS Software Engineer

Aircraft software development:
- Aircraft onboard error detection and agregation system.
- Aircraft detect and avoid system.
UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) tools development:
- UAS mission programing IDE.
- UAS parameter programmer.
UAS robotic sub-systems development:
- Condor automatic weight and banlance system.
- Canary payload release system.

PEY Co-op (May 2018 August 2019)
Full Time (May 2020 – May 2022)

University of Toeonto Aerospace Team

Fix-wing lead

Design and integration of Fix-wing Unmanned Aerial System.
Developing imagine payload system development.

Sept 2015 – Apr 2019

Projects

                
CSL offline Map Viewer
                  Generating an interactive map for the city building game Cities: Skyline
                
DetailsThis takes the city user builds in-game and generates an off-game
                    map to be shared with other players.
                    
Survivor
                  A “Cheat” for the popular web-based game Surviv.io
                
DetailsThe program uses YOLOv5 to recognize players and obstacles onscreen and
                    calculate the optimum firing solution (using auto clicker) based on players’ 
                    location, speed and obstacles in between.
                
Open Cycle
                  Microcontroller-based open-source cycling computer.
                
DetailsA fully open sourced cycling computer based on micro-controller hardwares such as arduino, ESP32 and Pi Pico
Support connecting to other BLE sensors and GPS

Active Dataset
                  Computer vision data labelling program with a focus on active learning.
                
AccomplishmentsIt provides basic class labelling and also allows quick screening and 
                    modifying existing labels (that might be auto-generated) with many
                    automatic label quality checkers
                    .
With a “Task” system to streamline the workflow of labelling so that a 
                    large labelling task can be broken down into sessions and clients to 
                    distribute the workload
                    .

Geographic Information System (GIS)
                  A Geographic Information System based on OSM database.
                
AccomplishmentsGeographic Information System based on OSM database in C++, 
                    with a graphical user interface and the capability of 
                    solving pathfinding and travelling currier problems.

University of Toronto Explorer
                  Primary fix wing UAS for the University of Toronto Aerospace Team
                
                Accomplishments
                Equipped with automatic flight controller, machine vision payload
                    System and long-range communication systems.