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Shao Stassen
I work where software meets hardware — control loops on microcontrollers, autonomous robots, and the ML systems that let them see.
selected work
Things I have built
full case studies in progress
Fast Robots: Sensor Fusion and Autonomous Navigation
RoboticsA hand-built differential-drive robot that localizes with a Bayes filter and pulls off high-speed maneuvers by Kalman-filtering sensor data faster than the sensors themselves update.
case study →
Huey: Autonomous 3 lb Combat Robot
RoboticsA beetleweight combat robot that finds and engages its opponent on its own — vision-based detection feeding an orientation controller, in an environment built to destroy it.
weight class: 3 lb
in progress
case study →
Parallel Sparse Matrix–Matrix Multiplication
Systems · HPCA parallel SpGEMM built on Gustavson's algorithm, reaching ~21× speedup on a 32-core Xeon system by attacking load imbalance and memory-bound accumulation.
speedup: ~21× on 32 cores
case study →
SpeechLens
ML · CVA fully local speech-analysis stack — faster-whisper and Silero VAD behind a FastAPI service — running on an RTX 5090 and a Jetson Orin Nano.
in progress
field log
Plates from the notebook
Evidence, mostly. Some of it is lab work; some of it is just where I happened to be standing.
