Justin Tan
Oakville,ON
Summary
Computer Engineering student with hands-on experience in systems programming, embedded development, and machine learning pipelines. Built and optimized large-scale C++ mapping systems using graph algorithms and multithreading, developed FPGA-based embedded applications on the DE1-SoC, and engineered multimodal emotion analysis pipelines integrating audio, transcript, and computer vision models. Experienced in performance optimization, debugging complex systems, and designing scalable technical architectures from concept to deployment.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Founder
AdVehicles
Oakville, Ontario
09.2025 - Current
- Architected a two-sided advertising marketplace from concept to launch.
- Designed scalable onboarding pipeline for multi-role users (drivers, clients, mechanics).
- Structured operational workflows for onboarding, identity verification, and campaign allocation.
- Secured partnerships with local businesses for vehicle-based advertising campaigns.
- Negotiated advertising contracts and structured recurring revenue campaigns.
- Managed cold outreach via in-person canvassing, email, and digital platforms.
Research Team Lead
Sunnybrook Hospital
05.2025 - 09.2025
- Led a research initiative centered on applying AI in stimulus curation
- Managed timelines and deliverables for stimulus curation and model training phases.
- Engineered multimodal emotion datasets integrating transcript embeddings, audio features, and facial emotion recognition outputs.
- Curated and annotated multimodal emotional stimuli (audio, visual, and transcript-based) for affective state modeling.
- Built automated pipelines for stimulus extraction, annotation, normalization, and dataset generation.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Toronto05-2029
Skills
- Artificial intelligence
- Project management
- C/C Programming language
- Project coordination
- Data analysis
- Machine learning
- Software development
- Simulation and testing
Timeline
Founder
AdVehicles
09.2025 - Current
Research Team Lead
Sunnybrook Hospital
05.2025 - 09.2025
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
University of Toronto