Shen Li

472 E College Ave, #A13, State College, PA, 16801

sql5319@psu.edu | (814) 777-7988 | http://shenli1992.weebly.com

EDUCATION
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Anticipated May 2015
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Psychology (Quantitative Skills option)
Cumulative GPA: 3.88/4.00
Computer Science Major GPA: 3.96
Psychology Major GPA: 3.81

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Intelligent Vehicles and Systems Laboratory, University Park, PA
May 2014 July 2014
Research Assistant, Penn State Summer REU Program, working with Dr. Sean Brennan and Kelilah Wolkowicz

Developed a navigation system for an autonomous wheelchair in order to grant Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
and Cerebral Palsy (CP) patients increased freedom of mobility without using joysticks
Compiled literature reviews, analyzed, and compared different obstacle avoidance algorithms
Dissected and implemented the Hough Transform in Python to extract lines from the LiDAR data and expedited the
program by incorporating the Split-and-Merge algorithm
Coded Ray Casting program in Python to search for optimal paths based on the extracted lines and integrated it with
the line extraction program on Robotics Operating System
Delivered presentations in the REU Symposium and the lab meeting, and wrote a research paper

Penn State Robotics Club, University Park, PA

Trinity College Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Active Club Member

Sept. 2013 Present

Apr. 5th, 6th 2014

Devised a multilayer fire-fighting tank robot to navigate in a maze, find and extinguish a candle
Investigated 6 variations of the maze in the contest and developed a finite state machine maze-navigation program in
Arduino using C++
Overcame the inaccuracy of the self-made tank treads by implementing a motion calibration program inspired from
the Wall Follower algorithm
Assembled and wired various electrical components together on the robot and troubleshot the programs using an
LCD board and multiple LEDs as indicators
Crafted the tank treads from bicycle chains and implemented the inspiration of assembling the fan blade inside a
water bottle as the tank gun

Artificial Intelligence Course Term Project, University Park, PA

Sept. 2014 Dec. 2014
IST 597F - Principles of Artificial Intelligence (graduate level course), taught by Dr. Vasant Honavar.
Project Team Leader

Developed a Java program using genetic algorithm to generate robots with evolved structures made of triangles and
rectangles and with evolved efficient locomotion
Devised a comprehensive fitness function for genetic algorithm considering walking distance, structural stability,
movement flexibility, energy consumption, material consumption, and velocity consistency
Coded robot chromosomes including multiple genes regard to both structure and walking gait and utilized Java
Genetic Algorithms Package (JGAP) to evolve robot generations
Created and configured the physics world to simulate the robots using JBox2D Java Physics Engine
Utilized Java game developing libraries - Slick2D and LWJGL to implement a user interface to demonstrate the
result of evolved robots

Access Control List Research, University Park, PA

Research Assistant, working with Dr. Anna Squicciarini and Matthew Tentilucci

Built a user friendly dynamic website on Drupal where people make decisions about privacy preferences in order to
investigate how they influence each other during decision makings
Designed the static front end using HTML and CSS, and embedded JavaScript codes for interactive confirm boxes
and popup boxes
Implemented the interaction between front end and MySQL database using PHP, where the front end pushed a
single users decisions into the database while at the same time retrieved all users real-time data from the database
and displayed it in tables
Administered the experiment with over 100 subjects who were asked to make decisions about the questions on the
website both individually and in a group

Human Performance Rhythms Laboratory, University Park, PA

Research Assistant, working with Dr. Frederick Brown and Dr. Cynthia Lajambe

Sept. 2013 Dec. 2013

Aug. 2013 Present

Investigated the Basner Dinges 2011 Maximizing sensitivity of Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) table and
developed a PVT computer based program in C++
PVT, the golden standard for sleep deprivation studies, is a reaction-timed task which measures the speed with
which subjects respond to a visual stimulus
Analyzed the possible human errors through tests and communications with professors and testers
Developed specific mechanisms to prevent the program from crashing and output the user error reports
Managed the listening study to study the human ability to distinguish sleep deprived human voice and normal
human voice, guided and oversaw more than 50 subjects and scrutinized their data reports

INTERNSHIPS
June 2013 Aug. 2013

SIE International Summer School, Beijing, China

Teaching Assistant, working with Dr. Edward Chang

Collaborated with Dr. Edward Chang from the University of Michigan in 2 psychology courses (Introduction to
Psychology and Human Sexuality)
Coached students in office hours, assisted Dr. Chang in classes and led review sessions
Accommodated professors at SIE who came from different U.S. universities to their new lives in Beijing

HONORS & AWARDS

First Place in Penn State IEEE Student Branch - Brown Bag Competition
Nov. 14th 2014
Utilized the electrical components from a bag in the competition to build a circuit in order to fulfill a specific task
Performance-based bonus as a Teaching Assistant in the SIE International summer school
Aug. 2013
Deans List in the all the 6/6 semesters
Fall 2011 to Spring 2014

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Skills
Languages
Years' Experience
C++
3.5 years
C
1.5 years
PHP
1 year
JavaScript
4 months
Assembly languages (Freescale 68HC12, MIPS)
Game Maker Language

Languages
Java
Python
HTML
Verilog

Years Experience
2.5 years
5 months
1.5 years
2 months
8 months
1 month

Operating Systems:
Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu Linux
Other Computer Skills: Robotics Operating System, Arduino, MySQL, Photoshop, IMovie, SPSS
Foreign Language Skills: Mandarin Chinese (First Language), English