Resume
Experience
Jun 2025 - Current
Scout AIAI Engineer
Working on VLAs for defense applications
Aug 2023 - Jun 2025
Applied IntutionPerception Engineer
Offroad autonomy program
May 2022 - Aug 2022
AndurilPerception 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-MadisonDeep 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
TeslaDSP 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
TeslaAutopilot Hardware Intern
Developed SLAM based object recognition algorithm with O(N) run time execution compared to previous O(N²)
June 2019 - August 2021
Wisconsin RacingFirmware 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 ControlsSoftware Engineering Intern
Developed and tested SPI drivers for interacting with various ICs. Wrote CAN bootloader for Cortex-M4 based MCU.
Education
Spring 2023
UW-MadisonM.S. Computer Sciences
GPA 3.88/4.00. Focus in computer vision, adversarial machine learning, and deep learning.
Spring 2022
UW-MadisonB.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 LiSIREN: Shaping Representations for Detecting Out-of-distribution Objects
CVPR '22
Xuefeng Du, Xin Wang, Gabriel Gozum, Yixuan LiUnkown-Aware Object Detection: Learning What you Don't Know from Videos in the Wild
Poster Presentation