Summary
Jianqiu Cao is an application engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in image sensor verification, ISP tuning, and camera system design for autonomous vehicles, currently working at Omnivision and TuSimple. He combines embedded hardware and firmware expertise—STM32/FreeRTOS, FPGA RTL in Verilog, schematic/PCB design—with practical camera bring-up, SerDes interface design, and image quality evaluation using Imatest and Python. His background includes hands-on FPGA/ARM work on radar and AHRS systems, giving him a rare full-stack perspective from silicon to system-level sensor integration. Based in California, he holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii and brings both research lab rigor and production-focused design experience to complex perception hardware. An interesting facet of his profile is the blend of academic research (GPS/drone navigation) and commercial sensor deployment for autonomous platforms, enabling pragmatic innovation under real-world constraints.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Application Technology, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Application Technology at North China Institute of Computing Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation at Beihang University
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Chinese, English