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
- Lead electronics developer for scale model city to test self-driving cars
- Article about project
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- Unpublished white paper written on findings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
- Developed entrant to 2017 IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition
- Based on the Master’s Thesis of Clayton Faber
- Placed 3rd
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
MiDOC – 2022 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