About
I am a software engineer at Amazon, Santa Monica, currently building blocks for the Amazon Alexa App (iOS, Android).
Prior to joining Amazon, I was a master student at the University of Southern California. I was also a student worker at USC Robotic Embedded Systems Lab, where I primarily worked on an open source project garage.
I received my Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notthingham with First Class Honours. At Nottingham, I worked on the Travel Dashboard project for Atos UK, supervised by Professor Natasa Milic-Frayling. I was also affiliated with UoN Mixed Reality Lab under Dr. Max L. Wilson.
Previously, I interned with Citrix Systems (2020), WorthNote (2018), CAS (2017) and GTCOM (2016). I enjoy programming in Python, JavaScript and Haskell.
Projects
cmdict
cmdict is a command-line dictionary toolset. It currently supports multiple exciting features such as offline English-to-Chinese translation, and extraction of highlighted words with Mac OS preview specified colors in PDF files.
garage
USC RESL
garage is an open source Python toolkit for developing and evaluating reinforcement learning algorithms, and an accompanying library of state-of-the-art implementations built using that toolkit. garage supports both TensorFlow and PyTorch.
UG Thesis
Mixed Reality Lab
My undergraduate dissertation: Data Collection and Analysis of the Linkage between Mental Workload and Spontaneous Facial Expression on Pattern Recognition Task scored 80+. Supervised by Dr. Max L. Wilson.
Travel Dashboard
ATOS UK
We built a JavaFx desktop software, which takes the raw data of different Excel file schemas available from Atos, perform analytics, and produce a summary report to present the information in a consumable format. Supervised by Professor Natasa Milic-Frayling.
2021 🍭 Zequn Yu