Xinyao Sun
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer at University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolXinyao Sun is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer with 11 years of experience at the intersection of signal processing, computer vision, machine learning, and blockchain, currently leading research and product efforts at Matrix Labs in Edmonton. He pairs academic rigor—as an adjunct professor and PhD researcher at the University of Alberta—with hands-on startup execution, from building decentralized lending platforms and smart contracts to shipping deep-learning systems for InSAR and UAV perception. His work spans optimization and signal decomposition to object tracking, face verification, and transfer learning, and he has steered large InSAR projects that fuse classical radar processing with AI to improve deformation estimation and DEM refinement. A serial founder and inventor named on multiple patents, he also contributes to national Web3 strategy as a committee member of the Canadian Blockchain Consortium. Notably, he bridges metaverse-scale, blockchain-empowered data platforms with practical model-conversion and deployment expertise, enabling research systems to move into robust production.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Alberta
Github Skills (72)
python10
infrastructure10
deep-learning10
ai10
lightning10
artificial-intelligence10
data-science10
github-copilot10
cost-management10
pytorch10
lifecycle10
machine-learning10
scaling10
language-server-protocol9
eosio9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Lucklyric/NLP-NER-CNN
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:61 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
MatrixLabsTech/flow-event-fetcher
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 21 commits in 2 months
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