Summary
Hao Zhou is a research-focused engineer with eight years of experience specializing in multimodal understanding across image, video, audio, and sensor data. Currently a PhD candidate and Research Assistant at Penn State, he builds pose-estimation, accessibility, and 3D reconstruction systems that fuse UWB, IMU, vision and acoustic signals for practical applications. His internships at Microsoft and Samsung Research demonstrate applied expertise in consumer UWB, respiration sensing, LiDAR interactions, and earbud-based biomarker monitoring and health foundation models. Hao’s work uniquely bridges academic rigor and product-minded prototyping—turning multimodal research into wearable and accessibility technologies. Based in Mountain View, he maintains an active project portfolio (hzhou3.github.io) that highlights cross-modal datasets and systems engineering for real-world sensing.
8 years of coding experience