MCS - University of Virginia

B.E. - ShanghaiTech University

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YUE ZHU

Open to PhD and intern/full-time job

About

I am a graduate student in the Master of Computer Science program at the University of Virginia (UVA). Now I am working as a research assistant supervised by Dr. Brad Campbell at the Link Lab. My research focuses on Cyber-Physical Systems, especially ubiquitous computing, energy-harvesting embedded systems, and AI on edge. I am also interested in smart health, human-computer interaction, and robotics. My work involves building real prototypes and demonstrating interesting ideas.

projects

research projects

Software Defined Solar Sensor (Submitted)

SDSS is a programmable sensor that uses the output of the solar panel as both an energy harvester and a sensing element. It can be reprogrammed to support different applications and is able to successfully classify events within those applications.

Motion-powered Gameboy (Sensys2022)

Motion-powered QR Tag

fun projects

RTOS-based Gaming System
- Designed and implemented an RTOS-based gaming system on TM4C123G processor and MKII Booster Pack
- Optimized jitter and multi-thread utility using Dynamic Priority Scheduler and used semaphore to prevent deadlocks
- Implemented a page switching mechanism, software drivers of FIFO for joystick, and interface for PWM buzzer
- Implemented a graphic driver to enable multi-layer image generating and a simplified Plants vs. Zombies video game

Multi-device Collaborative Object Recognition
- Realized the edge computing based on PC (user), Raspberry Pi (computing nodes), and Intel Neural Compute Sticks (computing resources)
- Optimized the time consumption of collaboration per frame to 1.39s (2.21s on PC) by applying the system

Black box RLC parameter and structure detection system
- Developed STM32-based black box RLC circuit parameters detection system
- Won the second prize of 2019 TI Cup National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest, Shanghai Division

Multi-capacitors Repeating Coil Gun
- Designed and simulated the schematic based on Arduino
- Designed PCB by adopting Altium Designer and iterated hardware prototypes
- Optimized the maximum voltage capability from 60V to 150V by replacing power MOSFET with IGBT

Battery-Free E-ink Tag (Capstone Project)
- Designed a battery-free display IoT node by bistable energy harvester and bistable display

How to get more upvotes in Quora?
Concerning getting more upvotes in Quora, length of sentence, lexical diversity, sentiment polarity, readability, number of words and subjectivity are most important features. We built a model to estimate the future upvotes for new posts. The final cross-validated accuracy of our model is 89%

experience

2017.11

TechCrunch 2017 Hackthon

2019.8

Electronic Design Contest

Second prize of 2019 TI Cup National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest Shanghai Division

2020.7 - 2021.6

Capstone Project

2021.7.9 - 2021.7.12

Best paper of VEH 2021!

Attend 3rd International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting Applications (VEH 2021) held in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

2021.7 - 2022.3

Research Assistant

Mechatronics and Energy Transformation Laboratory(METAL) at ShanghaiTech University

2022.8 - present

Master program in UVA

Pursuing the Master degree in Computer Science at University of Virginia

2022.10.15

Paper accepted by ACM Sensys2022

'Demo Abstract: Motion-powered Gameboy' gets accepted

2023.8 - present

Joined Link Lab @UVA

Working with Dr. Bradford Campbell on projects related to Internet of Things