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About

PhD Student at Washington University in St Louis.
My research interests are in memory management and scheduling, with a focus on robotic and heterogeneous compute systems.

Technical skills include: ROS2, ROS2 stack development, Fusion360, MPLAB, hardware design, PCB design, CUDA
Unrelated talents include: piano, carpentry

Publications

Oren Bell, Chris Gill, Xuan Zhang. “Hardware Acceleration with Zero-Copy Memory Management for Heterogeneous Computing” The 29th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2023).
[ paper | slides ]

Shuhao Wu, Jan Staschulat, Stephanie Eng, Oren Bell. “Real-time programming with ROS 2” Real-time Programming with ROS2, Workshop as part of ROSCon 2023.
[ workshop | slides | code ]

Education

Washington University in St Louis – 2019 to present

Computer Engineering PhD, ongoing
Master of Science in Computer Engineering
Advisor – Chris Gill

Autonomous Vehicle Testing

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville – 2013 to 2017

Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Engineering
Minors in Computer Science and Mathematics

Research Assistantship
  • Studied betweenness centrality as a clustering heuristic using the road network of California as a dataset
  • Unpublished white paper written on findings

Senior Design Project

Awards
  • 3rd Place 2017 IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition
  • 2nd Place 2016 St Louis Blackbox competition
  • Raghupathy and Sailirani Bollini Scholarship – 2-time recipient
  • Cougar Pride Scholarship – 4-year merit-based scholarship

Work

MiDOC2022 to present

  • CTO
  • Hardware design for medical wearables

Nidec – 2018 to 2019

  • Develop mesh network to be put in HVAC units to create smart buildings
  • Advise on design decisions for mobile app
  • Hardware design

Boeing – 2017 to 2018

  • Develop diagnostic software
  • Maintain server infrastructure

SIUE – 2017 to 2017

  • Provided supplemental instruction on embedded electronics
  • Provided supplemental instruction on digital design