Christopher Ta
Research Engineer at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Ta is a research engineer and biomedical-minded embedded systems developer with eight years of hands-on experience bridging laboratory needs and prototype production. Based in Dallas, he combines a Master's in Biomedical Engineering with practical expertise building IoT nodes, AVR/ARM/PIC firmware in C/C++, and CAD/PCB designs to deliver tools that accelerate wet-lab workflows. His background spans academic research at UT Southwestern and UNT, industry roles developing R&D instrumentation, and field-proven technical leadership from military systems maintenance—giving him a rare blend of rigor, reliability, and mission-focused troubleshooting. He’s equally comfortable iterating on a Fusion 360 model, routing an Eagle PCB, or debugging ESP-based microcontroller code, and he often proactively researches emerging ML/IoT techniques to push prototypes toward production.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associates in Science, Associates in Science at Lone star College-TomballMaster's degree, Biomedical Engineering, Master's degree, Biomedical Engineering at University of North Texas
Github Skills (48)
image-processing10
gcode10
computer-vision10
python9
slicer9
opencv9
pyqt9
deep-learning9
3d-printer9
3d-printing9
cnc9
cnc-controller9
slicing9
qml9
printer8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Digital1O1/Open-sourced-EEG-Electric-Wheelchair
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 release, 54 commits, 51 pushes in 9 months
Digital1O1/MPU_9250_Calibration
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
The intention of this repo was to provide a general guideline in order to calibrate the MPU_9250 since there seems to be a lack of documentation on how it should/could be done.
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 4 months
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