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General Information

Full Name Haoyu Niu
Date of Birth March 12th
Languages English, Chinese

Education

  • 2022
    Ph.D.
    University of California, Merced, USA
    • 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).
  • 2016
    M.S.
    California State University, Chico, USA
    • Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Experience

  • 2023 - now
    Research Engineer
    Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, US
    • 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.
    • 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.
  • 2021
    Summer Intern
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, California, US
    • Supporting the optimization techniques for risk-seeking policy gradients project.
    • 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

  • 2023-now
    Github link
    • A simple, clean github for academics.

Honors and Awards

  • 2021
    • Bayer Crop Science, Grants4Ag Award Recipient.
  • 2019
    • First place award in the Food Systems category of Big Ideas Contest at UC, Berkeley.

Academic Interests

  • Computer Vision
    • Image Processing, Object Detection, Segmentation, Classification, etc.
  • Machine Learning.
    • Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, etc.

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Running, Swimming, Billiard etc.