General Information
Full Name |
Haoyu Niu |
Date of Birth |
March 12th
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Languages |
English, Chinese |
Education
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2022
Ph.D.
University of California, Merced, USA
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
- Developed UAV imagery processing models by using Machine Learning, and Computer Vision algorithms, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Scikit-learn, and OpenCV.
- Conducted data collection and processing using the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS).
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2016
M.S.
California State University, Chico, USA
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Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Experience
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2023 - now
Research Engineer
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, US
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Integrate vertically across machine learning and AI, high performance computing, and data management, to design and produce prototype expert systems which also incorporate interfaces to support user queries and visualization.
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Develop efficient schedules for crop irrigation, specifically to develop an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)-based crop monitoring system that models crop water use for irrigation scheduling and increased water use efficiency, based on UAS-derived phenotype data and infield weather data.
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2021
Summer Intern
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, California, US
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Supporting the optimization techniques for risk-seeking policy gradients project.
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Explore and implement novel and/or existing optimization techniques for use in symbolic optimization software library (Rllib), conduct experiments for discrete optimization tasks, and analyze experimental results and write up findings.
Open Source Projects
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2023-now
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A simple, clean github for academics.
Honors and Awards
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2021
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Bayer Crop Science, Grants4Ag Award Recipient.
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2019
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First place award in the Food Systems category of Big Ideas Contest at UC, Berkeley.
Academic Interests
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Computer Vision
- Image Processing, Object Detection, Segmentation, Classification, etc.
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Machine Learning.
- Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, etc.
Other Interests
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Hobbies: Running, Swimming, Billiard etc.