Alex Chen

Alex Chen

Electrical engineer building intelligent developer systems.

I turn signals, models, and hardware constraints into tools engineers can trust.

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Alex Chen in an electronics and embedded systems lab.

Selected Work

2024Lead Engineer

GridLab — Real-time power systems simulation workspace

Interactive simulation environment for modeling, analysis, and what-if scenarios on modern grids.

Python, FastAPI, WebSockets, PostgreSQL, Plotly

GridLab interface showing a power-grid topology and real-time frequency and load charts.
2023Lead Engineer

EdgePilot — Profiling and deployment toolkit for neural networks on embedded hardware

Profile, optimize, and deploy models across MCUs and NPUs with repeatable benchmarks.

Python, PyTorch, C++, ONNX, TVM, Docker

EdgePilot interface showing latency, layer timing, operator, and memory analysis.
2022Engineer

Oscillo — Collaborative signal debugging for hardware teams

Capture, annotate, and share time-series data to debug issues faster across teams.

Python, FastAPI, WebRTC, InfluxDB, React

Oscillo interface showing four synchronized hardware signals and timestamped team annotations.

Experience

  1. 2021 — Present

    Electrical & AI Engineer Independent R&D

    Design and build tools at the intersection of electrical systems, embedded hardware, and machine learning.

  2. 2018 — 2021

    Embedded Systems Researcher Energy Systems Lab

    Researched grid integration, power electronics, and real-time control systems.

Toolkit

  1. Python
  2. PyTorch
  3. C/C++
  4. MATLAB
  5. FastAPI
  6. Docker

About

I bridge electrical systems and practical AI to build developer tools that handle real-world signals, hardware constraints, and the messy edge cases that ship in production.