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Elena Shi

Waterloo,ON

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Research assistant Engineer

Huawei Technology
01.2023 - 11.2023
  • Developed and optimized audio watermarking algorithm to make watermark embedding process 3 times faster than before and keep watermark detection rate over 90% in various scenarios
  • Developed testing tool kit for testing automation of the audio watermark project and demo GUI to visualize watermark embedding, detecting, and extracting process
  • Conducted in-depth research on computer vision, diffusion model, Large Language Model and Acoustic Echo Cancellation, investigated various research problems, and exchanged ideas within research group

Embedded Software Developer

MOlex Canada
05.2022 - 08.2022
  • Gathered user requirements, prepared design documents, developed and tested cross-platform software application to generate images for flashing and firmware update
  • Maintained product pipeline Jenkins file and reduced pipeline runtime to 1/3 of the original
  • Did investigation on ROM boot sequence and U-boot to support booting from recovery images

C++ Developer

Horizon Robotics
08.2021 - 12.2021
  • Developed over 50 frequently used operators for building machine learning models based on C++ programming language
  • Used ARM NEON instructions sets to optimize the performance of important operators
  • Some critical operators’ runtime on large dataset was decreased to 1/3 of the original
  • Maintained the Python script for model conversion and added over 30 new cases for converting ONNX Runtime operators to corresponding operators in the company’s repository

Education

Computer Science Honors, Coop - Software Engineering Specialization

University of Waterloo
04.2025

Skills

  • Git
  • Jira
  • Jenkins
  • Linux
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • C
  • C
  • C#
  • Python
  • SQL
  • R
  • React

Projects

Research Project focused on image editing using diffusion model, University of Waterloo

  • Research and design new objective functions to utilize additional UNET mask to improve the image quality based on instruct-pix2pix
  • Add new pipeline to support additional training dataset
  • Implement and Debug the different versions of objective functions
  • Actively collaborate with team members to develop innovative solutions


Research Project focused on Coordinated Control for Active 4WS Vehicle, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

  • Co-author on the paper titled ‘Coordinated Control for Active 4WS Vehicle Based on Linear Quadratic Differential Game’ in 2019 Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC)
  • Conducted extensive research on vehicle coordinated control topics
  • Gathered and analyzed datasets from experiments
  • Troubleshot various issues raised during experiments

Volunteer Experience

  • Taught lessons related to Python and foundation of sequential programs
  • Engaged in Ping-Pong team on behalf of school for three years
  • Organized high school Christmas party and convocation

Timeline

Research assistant Engineer

Huawei Technology
01.2023 - 11.2023

Embedded Software Developer

MOlex Canada
05.2022 - 08.2022

C++ Developer

Horizon Robotics
08.2021 - 12.2021

Computer Science Honors, Coop - Software Engineering Specialization

University of Waterloo

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