Resume

Experience

Jun 2025 - Current
Scout AI

AI Engineer

Working on VLAs for defense applications

Aug 2023 - Jun 2025
Applied Intution

Perception Engineer

Offroad autonomy program

May 2022 - Aug 2022
Anduril

Perception Intern

Developed embedded real-time single-object CV tracker for defense applications, improving upon prior optical flow based model by 23% (measured via HOTA metrics). Reduced labeller workload by 29x by implementing high-framerate auto-labelling pipeline.

Sep 2021 - May 2022
UW-Madison

Deep Learning Vision Researcher

Research focus on improving out-of-distribution object detection under Dr. Sharon Li. Emphasis on producing robust models impervious to domain shifts.

May 2021 - August 2021
Tesla

DSP Intern

Developed and tested confidence score for 5D point cloud data. SIMD hardware acceleration for multi-core processor with shared memory FPGA interaction.

Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Tesla

Autopilot Hardware Intern

Developed SLAM based object recognition algorithm with O(N) run time execution compared to previous O(N²)

June 2019 - August 2021
Wisconsin Racing

Firmware Lead

Designed electronics and wrote firmware for modular battery management system for 77S4P Li-Ion accumulator. Firmware incorporates Kahlman filter tuned off battery modeling simulation.

May 2019 - Aug 2019
Electronic Theatre Controls

Software Engineering Intern

Developed and tested SPI drivers for interacting with various ICs. Wrote CAN bootloader for Cortex-M4 based MCU.

Education

Spring 2023
UW-Madison

M.S. Computer Sciences

GPA 3.88/4.00. Focus in computer vision, adversarial machine learning, and deep learning.

Spring 2022
UW-Madison

B.S. Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

GPA 3.82/4.00. Computer science focus in machine learning and operating systems. Electrical engineering focus in digital signal processing.

Publications

NeurIPS '22
Xuefeng Du, Gabriel Gozum, Yifei Ming, Yixuan Li

SIREN: Shaping Representations for Detecting Out-of-distribution Objects

CVPR '22
Xuefeng Du, Xin Wang, Gabriel Gozum, Yixuan Li

Unkown-Aware Object Detection: Learning What you Don't Know from Videos in the Wild

Poster Presentation

arXiv:2203.03800

Coding Skills

C

90%

C++

85%

Python

90%

Matlab

60%

Software Skills

Linux

90%

Windows

80%

MacOS

95%

Git

95%

PyTorch

80%

NumPy

90%

ROS

70%