Peng Cheng
Technical Advisor at University of Toronto Human Powered Vehicles Design Team - HPVDT
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPeng Cheng is a technical advisor and software engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale machine learning, data mining, and real-time surveillance systems from research prototypes to production. He blends deep expertise in online kernel methods, stochastic optimization, and sparse representations with practical engineering—shipping Scala-based equity swap platforms, O(n) data systems, and browser-based drone and surveillance stacks. An active open-source maintainer and contributor to Apache projects and Scala tooling, he brings both research rigor and production discipline to complex distributed systems. Based in Toronto, he also organizes the local autonomous flight community and advises a record-attempt human-powered aircraft project, applying functional and stream-processing paradigms to avionics and drone communication. A less obvious strength is his consistent focus on computational complexity and parallel functional patterns, ensuring solutions remain performant as they scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Flying Cars and Autonomous Flight - nd787 Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Flying Cars and Autonomous Flight - nd787 Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at UdacityB.E. Telecommunication Engineering, B.E. Telecommunication Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at University of Wollongong
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
3,926reputation
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40answers
407questions
Github Skills (200)
apache-spark10
btrfs10
testing10
hadoop10
cffi10
automation10
implicit10
gradle-plugin10
spark-ml10
big-data10
json10
groovy10
apache10
junit-vintage10
intellij10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
tribbloid/shapesafe-demo
Jan 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:99 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 11 months
tribbloid/convnet-abstraction
Jan 2019 - May 2019
steerable, spherical, harmonic, and other convnet
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
neovimconvnetsphericalharmonic
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