Experience · Zhiao (Jacky) Mo

Experience

Internship and team experience, with the technical scope written out rather than dressed up.

Jan – Feb 2026 · approx. one month

Marketing Intern (hands-on robotics & edge-AI work)

Studied the wheeled robot chassis documentation and controlled it through its ROS interface for forward, backward and turning motion.
Deployed and benchmarked several YOLO image-recognition options on an NVIDIA Jetson Nano to find a configuration that suited the hardware.
Built a working human-following prototype that used bounding-box size as a distance proxy and bounding-box position to decide when to stop, turn or move forward (obstacle avoidance was out of scope).
Studied the company positioning-camera documentation, including how to obtain 3D coordinate data over the serial interface and image data over USB.
Worked on a two-tracker demo that sent positioning data back to a host computer over a wireless link so two devices could be displayed on one machine; device poses were aligned by starting both from the same initial position and orientation.
Deployed a YOLO-based vision model to a new, sparsely documented development board with a restricted model/runtime format: converted the model (ONNX) and traced unsupported-operator fallback that pushed part of the workload onto the CPU.
Supported the technical marketing side: SEO keyword and search-volume research, account setup (Discord / Instagram / YouTube), demo filming, and video post-production.

Academic team project

Product Owner & QA across sprints (academic team project)

Contributed to a Scrum-based team building an authenticated, map-based web product with school search, filtering, registration and role-based workflows.
Took Product Owner and QA responsibilities across different sprints.
Supported sprint planning and backlog preparation, and helped document requirements, acceptance criteria and showcase outcomes.