Design Engineer Resume Example

Automotive motor driver circuit design

• Participated in the converter design, simulation and component sourcing process of the the gate driver circuit.
• Conducted power dissipation computation for entire circuit and built an auto-updating program using python.
• Safety standard review and documentation for the PCB board.

Communication microgrid energy management strategy development

• Designed multiple load control strategies for a communication microgrid harvesting renewable power sources
• Performed analytical analysis on the control strategy and showed its performance and optimum level
• Conducted case studies with simulations using MATLAB/Simulink

Battery state of charge balancing droop control design

• Designed a communication-free control method to balance energy levels of batteries in a dc microgrid
• Validated simulation results with a hardware-in-the-loop test

Triangular Modular Module Converter (TMMC) project

• Designed the PCB layouts of a 120V-1kW TMMC using Altium
• Realized control and measurement of the TMMC using a real-time controller (NI-Crio) and FPGA modules

Robotics and machine learning

• Implemented control algorithms in robotics application realizing functions including navigation, localization, tracking, and image recognition
• Conducted physical simulations using Gazebo and Unity
  Applied machine learning algorithms in object detection and recognition

Solar-powered water pump

• Designed 3D-printed PCB and mechanical parts of a solar-powered water pump

• Rui Hu, Alexis Kwasinski, "Energy Management for isolated renewable-powered microgrids using reinforcement learning and game theory"; 2020 21st International Scientific Conference on Electric Power Engineering (EPE) .
• Rui Hu, Alexis Kwasinski, "Energy Management for Microgrids Using a Hierarchical Game-Machine Learning Algorithm"; 2019 1st International Conference on Control Systems, Mathematical Modelling, Automation and Energy Efficiency (SUMMA).
• Rui Hu, Alexis Kwasinski, "Energy management for wireless communication microgrids using a hierarchical learning-gaming algorithm"; 2019 IEEE 41st International Communications Energy Conference (INTELEC)
• Rui Hu; Alexis Kwasinski, "Energy management for microgrids using a reinforcement learning algorithm"; 2018 IEEE International Green Energy and Smart System Conference (IGESSC)
• Rui Hu, Alexis Kwasinski, and Andres Kwasinski, "Adaptive mixed strategy load management in dc microgrids for wireless communications systems"; 2017 IEEE 3rd International Future Energy Electronics Conference and ECCE Asia (IFEEC 2017 - ECCE Asia)
• Rui Hu, Alexis Kwasinski, and Andres Kwasinski, "Mixed strategy load management strategy for wireless communication network microgrid"; 2016 IEEE International Telecommunications Energy Conference (INTELEC)
• Rui Hu; Wayne W. Weaver, "Dc microgrid droop control based on battery state of charge balancing"; 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)
• Rui Hu, Alexis Kwasinski, and Andres KwasinskAn, "Adaptive Mixed Game Energy Management Strategy for Off-Grid Solar Powered Wireless Communications Base Stations"; Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, under review.

• Robotics Software Engineer Nano Degree, Udacity, 2018
• Machine Learning degree, Coursera, Stanford University, 2016

Enthusiastic Engineer eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail, and excellent organizational skills. Clear understanding of electric, robotics, and control system. Motivated to learn, grow and excel in the robotics industry and space blue ocean.