Hao Ju

Software Developer Associate, SAP

M. ISt in Informatics, McGill University

B. Eng in Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China

A Brief Introduction

I am currently a full-stack software devloper associate at SAP, under the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) department, developing its web-based planning workspace. Prior to that, I was a full-stack Software Development Engineer at Amazon Canada from Feb 2022 until the mass layoff in Mar 2023, working on the Amazon Marketing Cloud Premium Subscription Service. Further ahead, I worked as a support researcher at the Human-Machine Interaction Lab, Huawei 2012 labs (their R&D department), working on smart home appliances from April 2021 to Jan 2022.

I received a research-based Master's degree from School of Information Studies, McGill University, with a focus on Human Computer Interaction (HCI), accessibility & usability, and wearable devices. My supervisor was Prof. Karyn Moffatt. I also worked with National Research Council to develop data visualization visualization tools for people from non-technical backgrounds. I graduated May 2021.

Prior to joining McGill University in 2019 as a master's student, I was a full-time research assistant at City University of Hong Kong, conducting research with Dr. Kening Zhu on Human Computer Interaction, with a special interest in tangible interfaces, haptics and usability. I designed, developed and enhanced hardware & firmware prototypes.

I received my Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China with distinction in June 2018. My thesis, Target Recognition and Tracking based on XGBoost, was accepted as a poster prsentation for IET International Radar Conference 2018

As an undergrad, I worked in Prof. Jianyu Yang’s Radar System and Signal Processing team as a student researcher under the supervision of Prof. Wei Yi, investigating Real-Time Target Detection and Estimation.

I was a former Mitacs Glibalink Intern at McGill University. I worked at Shared Reality Lab, supervised by Prof. Jeremy Cooperstock. Our research designing and investigating the usability of a multi-functional foot-based musical interface went later as a full paper in ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2018.

I look forward to working with other enthusiastic researchers and engineers, designing & enhancing prototypes that will bring more convenience into our life :)

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Skill Sets

Having explored a wide range of aspects of research, I developed a firm foundation in both programming and hardware designing & implementation.

  • Programming: MATLAB, C, Python, VHDL, JavaScript, C#, HTML/CSS, Java
  • Tools: Altium Designer, Quartus, Simulink, SPSS, Unity 3D, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Figma
  • Embedded Systems: Arduino, STM32, MCS8051, Xilinx Vertex
  • Courses: Data Structure & Algorithms, Digital Signal Processing, Data Mining, Information Systems Design, User-Centered Design
  • Some of my previous projects are availiable in the "Research Projects" section.

    Honors and Awards

    Honors:

  • Ethelwyn Crossley Memorial Scholarship
    CAD 4,620
  • Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship
    CAD 15,000
  • Honorary Graduate of UESTC
  • National Internet Security Scholarship 2017
    CNY 30,000 (USD 4,556), 100 among all undergraduates and graduate students in China per year
  • Renmin Scholarship 2017
    First Class, CNY 1,500 (USD 226)
  • Jiuzhou Scholarship 2016
    CNY 1,000 (USD 150), 2 per school per year
  • Renmin Scholarship 2015
    Third Class, CNY 500 (USD 75)
  • Main Awards:

  • 2017 ‘Internet Plus’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
    Second prize, provincial level
  • OpenHW 2016 National College Student ‘Smarter Connected’ System Innovation Competition
    Second prize in southwest China area
  • 2016 COMAP Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling
    Honorable mention
  • 2016 National English Competition for College Students
    First prize in national final, 0.1%
  • Publications

    Taeyong Kim, Hao Ju, and Jeremy R. Cooperstock. 2018. Pressure or Movement? Usability of Multi-Functional Foot-Based Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1219–1227. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196759

    Data‐driven XGBoost‐based filter for target tracking. Bowen Zhai, Wei Yi, Ming Li, Hao Ju, and Lingjiang Kong. The Journal of Engineering, 2019(20):6683-6687, 2019, doi: 10.1049/joe.2019.0174

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