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yawollopkcaj/README.md

I'm Jack Polloway, an Engineering Physics student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) building at the intersection of Firmware, Robotics, Machine Learning, and Silicon.

I'm currently a Firmware Engineer for UBC Formula Electric (UBC's electric race car student design team). I was recently a Embedded Systems Engineer Intern at Hypercharge Networks.

My interests are...

  • Robotics 🤖
  • Machine Learning 🧠
  • Reinforcement Learning 🤓
  • Quantum Computing ⚛️
  • Custom Silicon ⚡️

My hobbies are...

  • Skiing ⛷️
  • Soccer ⚽️
  • Nutrition & Health 💪
  • Mountain Biking 🚵
  • Surfing 🏄

Check out what I've been working on recently...

  • FPGA-Acceleration for LLMs: A custom Systolic Array AI accelerator architected on a DE0-CV FPGA with a custom Python compiler for INT8 quantization

  • Fizz Detective: An autonomous robot software stack (ROS/Gazebo) driven by End-to-End Imitation Learning. Features a hybrid FSM architecture and custom OCR to navigate dynamic urban environments

  • Robot Summer Project: a 3rd place search-and-rescue robot built from scratch, integrating PCBs, bare metal ESP32 firmware with FreeRTOS, and edge-AI computer vision.

  • Formula Electric Firmware: FreeRTOS firmware for a 600V electric racing vehicle

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  1. fizz-detective-portfolio fizz-detective-portfolio Public

    Autonomous robot software stack (ROS/Gazebo) driven by End-to-End Imitation Learning (PilotNet). Features a hybrid FSM architecture, YOLOv5 perception, and custom OCR to navigate dynamic urban envi…

    Python

  2. rust_gpu_life rust_gpu_life Public

    A hardware-accelerated 16-million cell Conway's Game of Life simulation comparing WGPU Compute Shaders (SIMT) vs. CPU parallelism (MIMD).

    Rust

  3. autonomous-pet-rescue-robot autonomous-pet-rescue-robot Public

    Fully autonomous pet-rescue robot with ESP-IDF/FreeRTOS, custom PCBs, FFT-based IR tracking, and YOLOv5 vision - competition finalist.

    1

  4. non-linear-state-estimator non-linear-state-estimator Public

    High-fidelity discrete-time Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for Li-Ion battery SOC estimation.

  5. UBCFormulaElectric/Consolidated-Firmware UBCFormulaElectric/Consolidated-Firmware Public

    A consolidated repository for gathering all software under one roof.

    C 31 23

  6. GenQ-Hackathon-Series-2025 GenQ-Hackathon-Series-2025 Public

    GenQ Hackathon Series 2025 - Quantum in Finance

    Python