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General Information

Full Name Justin (Zhaocong) Yuan
Email justin.zcyuan@gmail.com
Languages English, Chinese, Cantonese

Education

  • 2022
    MASc in Aerospace Science and Engineering
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    • Advised by Angela P. Schoellig
    • Thesis: Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning for Safe Robotics: Constraints, Robustness and Transfer
  • 2020
    BASc in Engineering Science (Robotics)
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    • CGPA: 3.91/4.0, graduated with High Honours
    • Advised by Sanja Fidler
    • Thesis: Emergent Communication Behaviors in Multi-Agent Systems.

Experience

  • 2023 -
    Machine Learning System Software Engineer
    Qualcomm, Markham, Canada
    • on-device multi-modal Transformers, model distillation, model quantization, parameter efficient finetuning.
  • 2018 - 2019
    Deep Learning Intern
    Nvidia Toronto AI Lab, Toronto, Canada
    • Synthetic data generation, Sim-to-Real transfer, self-driving perception tasks, unsupervised distribution matching.
  • Summer 2018
    Software Engineer Intern
    Apple Inc, Seattle, United States
    • Siri Natural Language Understanding, Learning-to-Rank models.
  • Summer 2017
    Research Intern
    Data-Driven Decision Making Lab (Scott Sanner), Toronto, Canada
    • Image and text classification, hierarchical attention networks.

Skills

Programming Python, Java, C/C++, HTML/CSS, MATLAB
Software & Tools PyTorch, Tensorflow, PyBullet, ZooKeeper, Hadoop, Spark, ROS

Honors and Awards

  • 2015-2020
    • University of Toronto Dean’s Honours List
  • 2017
    • University of Toronto Excellence Awards (UTEA)
    • Garnet W. McKee-Lachlan Gilchrist Scholarship
  • 2016
    • Wallberg Undergraduate Scholarships
    • University of Toronto Scholar Award

Activities

  • 2022
    Organizer
    • ICRA 2022 Workshop on Releasing Robots into the Wild: Simulations, Benchmarks, and Deployment.
  • 2021
    Program Committee
    • NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Deployable Decision Making in Embodied Systems.
  • 2021
    Volunteer
    • IROS 2021 Workshop on Safe Real-World Robot Autonomy.
  • 2016-2019
    Co-founder/VP Marketing/VP Academics
    • University of Toronto Machine Intelligence Student Team (UTMIST).
  • 2016-2019
    Event Director/Conference and Hackathon Director
    • University of Toronto IEEE Student Branch