Xin Huang
Software Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolXin Huang is a Berlin-based software engineer with 15 years of experience blending open-source development and neuroscience research. He co-created and contributed majorly to KoReader, a leading e-ink PDF reader, and previously pursued a Ph.D. in visual neuroscience at Peking University where his work led to a patent for treating visual dysfunction via ocular dominance regulation. Xin applies rigorous experimental thinking to software for "dumb machines" while exploring how perception and consciousness can be modeled or modulated by artifacts. His background in chemistry and visual neuroscience gives him a rare cross-disciplinary toolkit for building user-centric, low-level software that interfaces with human perception. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic developer who brings scientific curiosity to engineering problems.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Chemistry, Bachelor's Degree, Chemistry at Zhengzhou UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Visual Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Visual Neuroscience at Peking University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (151)
epub10
webview10
reader10
sdl10
ebook-reader10
ubuntu10
lua10
ubuntu-touch10
ffi10
tesseract10
web-frontend10
launcher10
javascript10
ecosystem10
tauri10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
koreader/lua-serialize
Apr 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years
luaserialize
koreader/sdcv
Apr 2013 - Jun 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 4 years 2 months
stardictkoreaderconsole
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