Trent Houliston
AI Development Manager at University of Newcastle
Greater Newcastle Area Australia
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Top SchoolTrent Houliston is an AI Development Manager and PhD-qualified engineer with 13 years’ experience building real-time computer vision and robotics systems across humanoid robots, drones, maritime and rail domains. He blends deep research expertise in machine learning, kinematics, control theory and sensor fusion with hands-on engineering from embedded devices to supercomputers, and now leads applied AI development at 4AI Systems. Trent has a strong track record of turning prototypes into production-grade software and performance-optimised systems, and his open-source contributions include improving pybind11’s chrono-to-datetime conversions to bridge C++ and Python ecosystems. As a longtime casual academic, he also designs and teaches software engineering and architecture courses, bringing pedagogy into team mentorship and system design. Based in the Greater Newcastle area, he is skilled at translating complex sensor and control problems into robust, deployable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Avondale HighDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Software Engineering at University of Newcastle
English
Github Skills (18)
datetime10
c-language10
python10
interrupt-handling10
chrono10
chronos10
datetimes10
esp826610
binding10
iot10
interrupt10
sys10
esp3210
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pybind/pybind11
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Seamless operability between C++11 and Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 19 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Trent's contributions centered around enhancing the integration between C++11 chrono classes and Python's datetime module. They added casts to facilitate seamless conversion and round-trip functionality between C++ chrono objects and Python datetime and timedelta objects. The user refactored the chrono cast functions for improved organization and implemented unit tests to validate the conversions.
pythonbindings
Fastcode/NUClear
Mar 2013 - Dec 2022
The NUClear API
Contributions:85 reviews, 674 commits, 239 PRs in 9 years 10 months
apipythonnuclear
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