Simon Jin. Robotics, ML, and Software Engineering. Passionate about building intelligent systems.

1st Place winner at HardHaQ 2025, a quantum hardware hackathon hosted by the North American Quantum Consortium.

Software developer on a combat-robotics student design team — Nav2 planning for a holonomic base with a spinning LiDAR turret, an MPPI local controller, and real-time target detection in C++ on a Jetson Orin Nano.

A 6-DOF teleoperated robotic arm specifically designed for precision soldering tasks. Won Science Tech for Social Good at Hack the Coast.

Served as 3-year captain for FTC Parabellum. Led the team to compete in the European Internationals and mentored junior members.

Engineered a custom hall-effect macropad from scratch, featuring a custom KiCad PCB and embedded firmware.

A local-first desktop app (Rust + Tauri) that stores resume content in SQLite and compiles role-tailored LaTeX resumes to PDF on-device — with semantic search and an embedded llama.cpp model, no API key needed.

A compiler from an OCaml array DSL to CUDA — typed DAG IR, kernel fusion, reverse-mode autodiff, and NVRTC JIT — verified against a reference interpreter with 230+ unit and 38 system tests.

Deaf-assist heads-up display on Viture Pro XR glasses — real-time captioning with ElevenLabs text-to-speech and voice cloning. Won Best Use of ElevenLabs API at nwHacks 2026.

Hackathon wins, scholarships, and competitive results across robotics, quantum hardware, and software.

A machine-learning pipeline built around disciplined evaluation — k-fold cross-validation, feature engineering, and reproducible model optimization.

A motion-controlled pointer that reads hand movement in free space — IMU sensing, sensor fusion, and low-latency firmware mapped onto standard input.