About
I’m a Programmer through and through. I’ve been tinkering with code for as long as I can remember, but I picked up a passion in building things along the way.
Programmer & Robotics Engineer.
I've recently graduated from WPI with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor's degree in Robotics Engineering. I spent my time working on robotics research in the subfields of HRI, CV, and ML. Apart from robots I have and interest in financial technology.
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alexander-sun-cs/
- Github: github.com/technoAl
- Phone: 603-921-8669
- City: Boston, MA USA
- Age: 22
- School & Class: WPI Alumni
- Email: alexander.sun.business@gmail.com
- Looking For: Robots that are changing the world!
I’m looking for full-time opportunities where I can grow and continue to push myself. As I continue designing, building, and programming all I find is that I have so much more to learn.
Skills
I've been programming for 10+ years (since the 6th Grade). Overtime I've built up an abundance of skills and familiarity with a variety of different tools, frameworks, and APIS. Apart from just coding skills, I've picked up a variety of trades that allow me to contribute to every step of the creation of a robot. This includes mechanical design and fabrication skills, electrical integration, and of course programming.
Computer Science & Robotics Focus Areas
Programming Languages
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Resume
A comprehensive summary of my work experience and academic achievements.
Work Experience
Embedded Software Intern
May 2022 – August 2022
Formlabs, Boston, MA
- Formlabs is the leading 3D printing technology company that specializes in creating high-performance, user-friendly 3D printers, materials, and software designed to empower professionals and innovators across industries.
- Proactively took initiative in identifying user-facing problems, developing unique solutions, and deploying them directly to customers on the Form3 SLA line of 3D printers.
- Efficiently and resourcefully communicated and worked with QA, product, and engineering teams to implement full-scale changes to the user experience.
- Key Results: Solved key print time estimation algorithm change and user interface update within 1 month to thousands of user’s worldwide.
- Stack: C++, QML, GO, Python
Research Assistant
May 2023 – May 2024
Human-Inspired Robotics Laboratory, Worcester, MA
- The Human-Inspired Robotics Laboratory is dedicated to pioneering research in Human-Robot Interface and Shared Autonomy to enable the efficient, intuitive, and effortless control of mobile humanoid robots.
- Led the team's successful integration of Mixed Reality Devices into human-robot collaborative environments, including the development of novel Augmented Reality control interfaces, and demonstration of the system's efficacy over traditional control systems through user studies.
- Key Results: Developed robot control algorithms and new data structures to facilitate the data flow of novel AR control interfaces onto pre-existing robot functiontionality.
- Award: : Provost's Major Qualifying Project Honorable Mention
- Stack: ROS (Python, C++), Unity (C#)
AI/ML Research Intern
May 2021 - December 2021
Kaisura Inc, Remote
- Premier consultancy with a relentless commitment to mitigate AI security, privacy, and ethical risks. Their focus is on AI-enabled systems and services used in the healthcare industry and the patients and employees they help.
- Developed a cutting-edge tool to benchmark a neural network's robustness and resiliency to adversarial attacks.
- Key Results: Within a month, independently developed the first iterations of a tool for other teams based on new cutting-edge research papers.
- Award: : Provost's Major Qualifying Project Honorable Mention
- Stack: Python
Software Developer
Summer 2021
WPI Robotics Library, Worcester, MA
- WPILib (short for WPI Robotics Library) is a comprehensive software library designed to support teams competing in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). It provides an extensive set of tools, frameworks, and utilities that simplify the development of robot control systems.
- Developed a machine learning tool for FRC teams that faciliatate transfer learning of a MobileNet to do object detection.
- Utilized React, Tensorflow, GraphQL, Docker
- https://docs.wpilib.org/en/latest/docs/software/wpilib-tools/axon/index.html
- https://github.com/wpilibsuite/Axon
Robotics Instructor
2018 - 2020
KTBYTE Computer Science Academy, Lexington, MA
- KTBYTE is an educational organization specializing in computer science education for students ranging from beginners to advanced learners, primarily targeting K-12 students. The organization offers live, online classes taught by experienced instructors, focusing on fostering computational thinking and programming skills through an engaging and rigorous curriculum.
- Developed curriculum and taught students Arduino Programming, circuit building, and sensors.
- https://www.ktbyte.com/
Extracurriculars
Researcher @ Music, Perception, and Robotics Lab
2021
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Researching Realtime Onset Detection for generative or synchronous robotic accompaniment.
Mentor @ First Robotics Team 190 (Former Student)
2019 - 2022
Mass Academy/Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Current controls mentor who helps students code the robot.
- As a student, worked on subsystem programming using command based programming in Java.
- As a student, worked on vision system for automatic acquisition of target.
- As a student, acted as Pit Boss, who was in charge of all repairs during competition during 2k20 season.
Founder & Director @ Noctem Development Inc.
2019 - 2021
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Founded Noctem Devlopment - a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting problem solving in computer science.
- https://noctem.dev/
- Acted as tournament director & problem writer for multiple coding competitions, both in-person and online.
Captain @ Mass Academy Programming Team
2019 - 2021
Massachusetts Academy of Math & Science @ WPI
- Lead weekly meetings & prepared problem sets for members.
- Competed in the ACSL competition & various other local coding competitions with the team.
Developer/Captain @ IdeaLab
2017 - 2019
Acton Boxborough Regional High School
Created a website for the club.
- Lead weekly meetings & worked on software projects.
- Organized participation in various local hackathons.
- Founded ACSL program at the school & created problem sets for the team.
National Team Member @ ABRHS Science Olympiad
2017 - 2019
Acton Boxborough Regional High School
- Competed in Helicopters & Towers my Freshman year at the Scioly National Tournament, MIT Invitational, & Yale Invitational.
- Competed in Mousetrap Vehicle, Wright Stuff & Mission Possible my Sophomore year at the MIT Invitational, Harvard Invitational & Brown Invitational.
- See Awards for Medals.
Education
Worcester Polytechnic University
2021 - 2024
Worcester, MA
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Robotics Engineering (Double Major)
- GPA: 4.0/4.0; Valedictorian; Graduation with High Distinction, Dean's List
- Completed Double Major in 3 Years
- Provost's Major Qualifying Project Award Honorable Mention
- President's Interdisciplinary Qualifying Project Award Finalist
Massachusetts Academy of Math & Science @ WPI
2019 - 2021
The Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI has been ranked the #1 Best Public High School in Massachusetts for the eighth consecutive year by Niche.com. (2024)
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
2017 - 2019
Awards
Provost's Major Qualifying Project Award Honorable Mention
2024
Recognition for outstanding work on my team's capstone project working on Novel Control Interfaces for Mixed Reality Human-Robot Interface
President's Interdisciplinary Qualifying Project Award Finalist
2024
Awarded for our projects social impact for our project done while overseas in Taiwan. This project dealt with the effect of Backpacking for facilitating life purpose.
USA Computing Olympiad Gold Division
2018
Awarded for results in the USACO competitions in computing and algorithmic problem solving.
American Invitational Math Exam Qualifier
2021
MIT Blueprint Hackathon 1st Place Senior Division
2019
Awarded for a software project that utilized hand tracking to allow groups to virtually create music synched between laptops.
MetroHacks 1st Place Health Track
2019
Awarded for the creation of a wireless glove that measured sweat concentration to measure dehydration in athletes that was accessible the cloud wirelessly.
HackExeter 2nd Place
2019
Awarded for the creation of robust object tracking software
First Robotics Competition: Northern Connecticut District Innovation in Controls Award
2018
Awarded for our innovative and homemade vision system and pipeline to detect the unique trapezoidal goal for our FRC robot's targeting system.
MIT Lemelson InventTeam National Grant Finalist
2020
Submitted an app that helped pair volunteer opportunities with students.
Cyber Patriot Platinum Division & 1st place State
2019
Awarded for results in the Cyber Patriot Cyber Security Competition.
Science Olympiad: MIT Invitational 2nd Place Mission Possible
2019
Created a large and precise Rube Goldberg machine that accomplished tasks including the use of chemical reactions as actuation and circuitry.
Science Olympiad: MIT Invitational 3rd Place MouseTrap Vehicle
2019
Built a mousetrap utilizing 3D printed parts and carbon fiber to accomplish the task.
Science Olympiad National Tournament 2nd Place GameOn
2018
Science Olympiad National Tournament 10th Place Towers
2018
Precisely built balsawood towers to handle as much weight as possible.
High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HIMCM) Meritorious Award
2019
Awarded for our mathematical model created for Electric Vehicle energy consumption.
Community Service
Noctem Development
2019-2021
Founder
Helping Hands for Relief Development
2021
Java Instructor
Taught High School Syrian Refugee students in Jordan Java virtually.
Portfolio
This portfolio contains primarily Robotics and Software projects from my time at Worcester Polytechnic University with some project developed during my time in High School as well.
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- Robotics
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- University
- High School
Contact
Location:
Acton, MA
Email:
alexander.sun.business@gmail.com
Call:
+1 603 921 8669