Find optimal balance between engineering innovation and business profitability from both disruptive and sustaining technologies

Senior Staff Engineer, Servo FW @ From October 2012 to Present (2 years 11 months) Irvine, CAStaff Engineer, Servo FW @ * Researching and developing new optimization algorithm and firmware to improve hard drive performance, acoustic, power, robustness and manufactory yield through seek motion control and stochastic optimization * Applied 12 patents including the 2015 president award, which saved hard drive power by 20% through dynamic power optimization for motion control and load balancing for performance Researched distributed hard-drive systems in Handoop Map Reduce environment; and simulate the traffic congestion and HDD performance with different topology and scheduling policy * Applied regression model to solve classification problem in quality control and data vision through large multi-dimension data set * Took business roadshow for ODM/OEM customers and WD factory in Taiwan and China to introduce new FW features * Designed AI tuning algorithms for critical control parameters, based on iterative validation results by using Unscented Kalman Filter * Selected by the Engineering Executive Team to take the management for technical professionals development program at UCI Paul Merage Business School From August 2008 to September 2012 (4 years 2 months) Irvine, CAChief Technology Officer @ * Lead engineer team to roll-out of various robots and embedded systems for CD/DVD duplications system, and became ODM and OEM partner of Xerox * Nominated as the best design in CES for the Cube product. From July 2004 to January 2008 (3 years 7 months) http://www.vinpowerdigital.com/en-us/main/

Management for Technical Professionals, Business Administration and Management, General @ University of California, Irvine From 2012 to 2012 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical engineering (Control and Network), 3.8 @ University of Southern California From 2003 to 2008 Master's degree, Electrical Engineering (Control), 3.9 @ University of Kentucky From 2001 to 2002 Bachelor's degree, Control @ Beijing Institute of Technology From 1997 to 2001 Synopsys EventSynopsys Event Mingji Lou is skilled in: Embedded Systems, C Programming, ARM, Signal Processing, Control Theory, State Estimation, Motion Control, Big Data, Matlab, Accelerometer, Sensors, Adaptive Filtering, Adaptive Control, Modeling