SIHAN CHEN

 

About Me


Currently studying at UIUC to pursue a BS degree
Majoring in EE, Minoring in CS

Experience


February 2019 - January 2021, Co-Founder | Lighthouse WeChat Official Account, created and organized a blogging team focused on educational choices, conducted interviews, and addressed problems in the education system such as bullying.


September 2019 - May 2021, | Chengdu Foreign Languages School Electronic Music Club, taught using DAW software, improved audio equipment.


September 2018 - January 2020, Team Captain | American High School Mathematical Modeling Competition Team 10100, engaged in modeling and paper writing, developed evaluation models, received Honorable Mention Award in 2019.


July 2019, Research Intern, co-wrote and edited several systematic reviews on the diagnosis and treatment of Helicobacter pylori infections, published in Frontiers and Wolters Kluwer.


September 2022, Illini RoboMaster | Team Member | Firmware, developed control systems, calibrated IMUs.


Spring 2022 & Summer 2023, University of Illinois | Lab Assistant | Assisted with student lab activities, collaborated with professors and teaching assistants on lab data research to improve learning experiences.


Spring 2021 & Summer 2023, Vice Chairman of the University of Illinois Chinese Drama Society | Participated in the arrangement of actors, sound effects, and lighting control for "Variations on Death", "The Pillowman", "The Black Cat", and "The Life of Galileo".


September 2022 - January 2023, NASA L’Space Academy | Electrical Lead | Power systems, assessed different imaging technologies, implemented energy distribution models.


May 2023 - July 2023, UIUC - HCESC | Internship | Control, signal processing, built robot platforms, conducted frequency domain analysis.


April 2023 - Jan 2024, University of Illinois | Research | Computer vision, trained U-Net models, implemented active learning techniques.


September 2023 - May 2024, Augmented Hearing Lab | Robotics | Control, developed linear positioning systems, integrated APIs.


June 2023 - Jan 2024, Keywords AI | PM | Controlled LLM-driven models, the company was selected by the Summer 2023 batch of Y Combinator


June 2023 - May 2024, Alora AI | Founding Engineer, DevOps, Backend, built a social application, selected for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. beta university accelerator 2024


June 2024 - December 2024, Samsara | Electrical Engineering Co-op,
built Samsara's first generation flat asset tracker - Gretel