AI Researcher Project Lexington Hedgehog at Handshake
San Jose, California, United States
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Edward Hua is an AI researcher and multimodal engineer based in San Jose with 11 years of technical experience, currently driving Project Lexington/Hedgehog at Handshake to build audio-visual-text systems. He combines a Business Management Economics background from UC Santa Cruz with hands-on machine learning work, contributing high-fidelity multimodal training data and improving speech and language recognition. On GitHub he focuses on computer vision and mobile deployment, notably adding and integrating lightweight pose-estimation models (mv2-cpm-224) for both Android and iOS, including CoreML support. Comfortable bridging product and research, he has experience from retail finance to fraternity leadership, demonstrating strong communication and team management across diverse groups. Colleagues describe him as quality-driven and willing to go beyond metrics to improve model performance. He’s particularly adept at turning research prototypes into mobile-ready models that run efficiently on-device.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
N/A N/A, N/A N/A at St. Francis High School, Mountain View
:dancer: Real-time single person pose estimation for Android and iOS.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:61 commits, 7 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Edward primarily contributed to the development and integration of machine-learning models for pose estimation. They added a new model, "mv2-cpm-224," updated annotations, and integrated and updated various models for both Android and iOS, including models for CoreML. The commits include modifying code related to image classification, model loading, and integration within the Android demo application. The user demonstrated expertise in model management and deployment within the context of mobile applications.
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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