Jiao Sun
Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolSun Jiao is a hands-on electrical engineer and graduate research assistant with 10 years of experience bridging academic research and practical product work in battery management, embedded systems, and PCB design. With an M.S. in Electrical Engineering (3.71 GPA) from the University of Toledo, Sun led projects that extended lead-acid battery lifetime through custom monitoring hardware and designed microcontroller-driven pressure control systems using CAN, SPI, and USART. He combines deep hardware skills—Altium PCB layout, AutoCAD schematics, DC-DC and analog circuit design—with firmware experience on XC888/C515 platforms and C/C++ toolchains. An active contributor to open-source mobile mapping (osmdroid), he improved shapefile conversion and overlay customization for Android, showing an uncommon blend of embedded systems and mobile full‑stack development. Fluent in Mandarin and English, Sun is detail-oriented, communicative, and comfortable working independently or in teams, willing to relocate and travel for impactful engineering roles.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Tsinghua University
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Github Skills (12)
openstreetmap10
javas10
android10
java10
kotlin6
dart6
android-room6
dom6
locale6
efficientnet6
flutter6
gradle6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
osmdroid/osmdroid
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
OpenStreetMap-Tools for Android
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jiao primarily focused on enhancing the `ShapeConverter` utility within the `osmdroid` project, an OpenStreetMap tool for Android. Their contributions involved refactoring the code, fixing critical issues related to coordinate ranges, and adding features to customize the appearance of overlays, including color, line width, and bubble customizations. They also introduced and modified `ShapeMetaSetter` to control the setting of metadata, showing strong expertise in the shapefile conversion and overlay customization.
osmandroidopenstreetmap
sun-jiao/flut-renamer
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Flut Renamer - A bulk file renamer written in flutter (dart). Available on Linux, Windows, Android, iOS and macOS.
Contributions:18 releases, 18 PRs, 298 pushes in 1 year 8 months
batch-renamebatch-rename-filesbatch-rename-photosbatch-renamerbulk-rename
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