Summary
Shilin Xu is a software developer and founder based in Vancouver who combines over a decade of engineering experience with a Ph.D. background in communication systems to build human-centric computer perception tools. He leads Streamki, a startup creating a novel video search engine that finds objects across internet videos, while contributing to video software and codec work in roles at Seon, NETINT, Teradici and others. Comfortable spanning research and product engineering, he has moved from video research into practical, deployable systems that bridge ML perception and user-facing search. Notably, he treats his long-held academic vision of computer systems that perceive the world like humans as both a professional focus and an ongoing side-project, blending curiosity-driven R&D with hands-on product delivery.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Communication and Information System, Ph.D Communication and Information System at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English