Xin Tong

I currently work at Google Labs in San Francisco Bay Area. In Google, I use machine learning to improve video calls and innovate on future video call experiences.

Contact me:

Email: tongxin829 AT gmail DOT com

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Work Experience

July 2022 - Present: Software Engineer at Google Labs. Improving video calls with machine learning.

Dec 2017 – July 2022 : Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA. Working on visual perception modules of autonomous vehicles.

Jan 2019 - Dec 2020: Volunteer managing Tongji University Alumni Association of Northern California

Sep 2016 -Dec 2017: Software engineer at Nokia Technologies. Worked on Nokia OZO Virtual Reality camera live streaming.

2015 summer: Intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL, mentor: Patrick McCormick)

2014 Aug-Dec: Instructor of the class Programming in C++ (CSE4252) at The Ohio State University

2013 summer: Intern at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL, mentor: Kenneth Moreland)

2012 summer: Intern at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL, mentor: Pak Chung Wong)

2011 summer: Intern at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL, mentor: Pak Chung Wong)

Education

09/2010- 08/2016: PhD in Computer Science, advisor: Han-Wei Shen, The Ohio State University. Researches: high performance 3D data visualization, human computer interaction (HCI), time-varying data analysis.

09/2006-07/2010: Bachelor of Engineering in Geoinformation Science and Technology, advisor: Huagen Chen, Tongji University, China

09/2003-06/2006: Wuhan No.2 High School, Wuhan, China

Skill highlights:

- Computer vision: Optical flow, feature tracking, object detection, panorama stitching, temporal information prediction with recurrent neural networks.

- Computer graphics: interactive rendering

- High performance computing: GPU based parallel computation and CPU multi-threading.

- Visualization: Large scale data analysis/visualization

- Human computer interaction with touch screen, virtual reality and motion camera interaction.