Taowei Huang

Taowei Huang

MS student in ECE at UIUC

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experience

Undergraduate Research Assistant

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  • Developed and trained optimization-based neural networks in PyTorch to address non-linear inverse problems in slitless instantaneous spectral imaging
  • Integrated iterative optimization principles into the neural network architecture to improve robustness against input distribution shifts

Undergraduate Research Assistant

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  • Combined a novel sampling strategy inspired by Expansive Space trees with Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) to improve its exploration ability, increasing the target-reaching success rate in cluttered environments.
  • Integrated an online-learned value field inspired by Real-Time Adaptive A* into MPPI to improve its ability to escape local minima with a limited horizon.
  • Implemented and validated the algorithm with several motion-planning tasks using a UR5e robot arm and an ant quadruped robot.
  • Benchmarked the implementation with CPU MuJoCo, GPU-accelerated MuJoCo MJX and Mujoco Warp.

portfolio

publications

Paper Title Number 4

Published in GitHub Journal of Bugs, 2024

This paper is about fixing template issue #693.

Recommended citation: Your Name, You. (2024). "Paper Title Number 3." GitHub Journal of Bugs. 1(3).
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talks

teaching

MATH 257 (Linear Algebra with Computational Applications)

Course Assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, 2024

  • Led lab sessions for 40+ students, facilitating hands-on learning using Python and NumPy to explore linear algebra concepts
  • Held office hours to deliver individualized academic support on lab exercises and homework

ECE 391 (Computer Systems Engineering)

Course Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, 2025

  • Maintained and extended a custom RISC-V Unix operating system used as the instructional codebase for 300+ students, debugging core kernel components including the shell, scheduler, and file system to ensure system stability.
  • Guided students on kernel-level concurrency, virtual memory, and C/RISC-V assembly integration through office hours and technical debugging support.

ECE484 (Principles of Safe Autonomy)

Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, 2026

  • Led lab sections on key topics in robotics such as safety, control, machine learning, and planning
  • Maintained and expanded a ROS 2-based lane-following racing machine problem by designing and integrating a new control algorithm for the course, migrating the codebase from ROS 2 Humble to ROS 2 Jazzy, building an autograder, and implementing and maintaining a performance leaderboard