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General Information
Full Name | Justin (Zhaocong) Yuan |
justin.zcyuan@gmail.com | |
Languages | English, Chinese, Cantonese |
Education
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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
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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
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2023 - Machine Learning System Software Engineer
Qualcomm, Markham, Canada - on-device multi-modal Transformers, model distillation, model quantization, parameter efficient finetuning.
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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.
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Summer 2018 Software Engineer Intern
Apple Inc, Seattle, United States - Siri Natural Language Understanding, Learning-to-Rank models.
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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
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2020 - Vector Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence (by Vector Institute)
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2015-2020 - University of Toronto Dean’s Honours List
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2017 - University of Toronto Excellence Awards (UTEA)
- Garnet W. McKee-Lachlan Gilchrist Scholarship
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2016 - Wallberg Undergraduate Scholarships
- University of Toronto Scholar Award
Activities
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2022 Organizer
- ICRA 2022 Workshop on Releasing Robots into the Wild: Simulations, Benchmarks, and Deployment.
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2021 Program Committee
- NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Deployable Decision Making in Embodied Systems.
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2021 Volunteer
- IROS 2021 Workshop on Safe Real-World Robot Autonomy.
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2016-2019 Co-founder/VP Marketing/VP Academics
- University of Toronto Machine Intelligence Student Team (UTMIST).
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2016-2019 Event Director/Conference and Hackathon Director
- University of Toronto IEEE Student Branch