Zhong (Aaron) Guan

  • Software Engineer, TuSimple
  • MRSD Student, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
  • zhongg@andrew.cmu.edu

About me

I am a software engineer at TuSimple. I graduated with my M.S. degree from the Robotic Systems Development at The Robotics Institute, Carnegine Mellon University (CMU). I received my Bachelor of Engineering with first class honor from Department of Electronic & Information Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. I have also studied at McGill University as an exchange student.

I was a self-driving perception intern at NVIDIA in 2020 summer. Prior to CMU, I was a deep learning research intern at Mech-Mind Robotics. I also worked at HSBC, Hong Kong for about one year as software engineer. I have fortunately worked with Prof. Chen Li in Terradynamics Lab at LCSR, Johns Hopkins University, Prof. Kin-Man Lam at PolyU, and Dr. Yanan Cao at Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Publication

Deep Neural Networks for Lung Cancer Tumor Region Segmentation

Runze Zhang, Zhong Guan, Shun-Cheung Lai, Jun Xiao, Kin-Man Lam
IWAIT 2019

Education

ACADEMIC CAREER

Master of Science in Robotic Systems Development

Aug. 2019 - Exp May. 2021

Bachelor of Engineering (HONS) in Electronic & Information Eng

Sep. 2014 - Jun. 2019

Robot Operating System (ROS) Summer Exchange Student

Aug. 2018 – Sep. 2018

Exchange Student

Jan. 2017 – May. 2017

Research Experience

PREVIOUS RESEARCH

Capstone Project Student

Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, PolyU
Supervisor: Prof. Kin-Man Lam
Topic: Machine Learning and Face Recognition
Jun. 2018 – Present, Hong Kong

Research Assistant

Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence Research Group, PolyU
Supervisor: Prof. Kin-Man Lam
Topic: Deep Neural Networks for Lung Cancer Tumor Region Segmentation
Jun. 2018 – Sep. 2018, Hong Kong

Summer Research Intern

Terradynamics Lab, Johns Hopkins University
Supervisor: Prof. Chen Li
Topic: Behavioral mapping analysis of animal and robot locomotion
Jun. 2018 – Aug. 2018, Baltimore, MD, USA

Part-time Research Assistant

Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Supervisor: Prof. Yanan Cao
Topic: Deep learning model for text classification
Jan. 2018 – Mar. 2018, Beijing, China

Autonomous Bin Picking

RLBench simulation project for Autonomous Bin Picking using Pandas Robot Arm

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Machine Learning for Face Recognition

Capstone Project at PolyU.
ResNet-based network for face recognition in unconstrained environment

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STM32 Robot Car

A DC-motor-driven two-wheel robot car based on STM32F103RB Cortex-M3, which can follow tracks and locate objects through WIFI communication

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Autonomous Turtlebot3

Turtlebot3 with SLAM mapping, autonomous navigation and localization, and ARTag detection systems implemented by ROS

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Quadrotor with Pixhawk4

A Quadrotor with a Pixhawk4 flight controller that can automatically take-off, land, and fly

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Mecanum Wheel Robot Car

A Bluetooth controlled Mecanum wheel robot with an android mobile application

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Deep Neural Networks for Lung Tumor Region Segmentation

A deep neural network for lung tumor detection and segmentation, from screening Computed Tomography scans

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Behavioral mapping system of animal and robot locomotion

A mapping system to classify the obstacle-crossing and self-righting behaviour of cockroach and cockroach-inspired legged robot

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Pipelined Processor

A five-stage, 32-bit pipelined MIPS processor, which contains write-back, direct-mapped instruction and data cache, created by VHDL and ModelSim

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Online Shopping Cart Database

A database for an online shopping cart application with a Java GUI

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Service-Learning: Solar Power Supply System @ Cambodia

Installed 45 solar systems, including solar panels, LED lights and charging stations, for local villagers and held tech workshop for local students in Phnom Penh, Cambodia