Huy (Michel) Trinh

I am a Master of Applied Science (M.ASc.) student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. My research sits at the intersection of wireless sensing, generative AI, and systems optimization. I am supervised by Prof. George Shaker in the Wireless Sensors and Devices Lab (WSDL) and Prof. Elliot Creager in the Socially Embedded Machine Intelligence (SEMI) Lab. I am also a Faculty Affiliate Researcher with the Vector Institute and as a Research Engineer on a joint project with Ansys. At Waterloo, I have been a teaching assistant for ECE 459 (Programming for Performance) and ECE 252 (Systems Programming and Concurrency), working with Dr. Jeff Zarnett, Dr. Wojciech Golab, Dr. Andrew Morton, and Dr. Mojtaba Aajami. And I was a core member at WatAI.

Before Waterloo, I earned a B.Sc. in Science and Engineering from Tampere University (Finland), double-majoring in Embedded Systems and Mathematics. Previously, I worked with the Supercomputing Performance Research Team (SuPer) at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) under Dr. Jens Domke. I was also a research assistant at Tampere University with Dr. Philipp Müller and Dr. Pavel Davidson, and a visiting researcher at the University of Jyväskylä with Dr. Neil Cronin. My industry experience includes roles at Nokia (2020), Nordic Semiconductor (2021), CSC (2022), CINECA (2023), and IQM Quantum Computers (2023). I have also completed projects with companies such as Wirepas and Wapice Oy, and organizations including OpenASIP, Kvazaar 4K HEVC, and CHARM.

Broadly, I am a full-time learner and part-time enthusiastic about Embedded Systems, High-Performance Computing, Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Digital Twins, and IoT—and I care most about turning research ideas into practical systems that perform well in the real world.