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Qi Li

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Autonomy & AI Engineer at Marine Thinking Inc. who improved maritime collision-avoidance accuracy by approximately 30%.

Canada
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At Marine Thinking Inc., I develop and deploy autonomy capabilities for unmanned surface vehicles, spanning perception, sensor fusion, tracking, planning, navigation, and control. I designed and validated maritime perception and collision-avoidance systems integrating cameras, LiDAR, radar, AIS, GPS, and IMUs, improving collision-avoidance accuracy by approximately 30%.

I extended the navigation platform with modular perception capabilities, including multi-object tracking, semantic segmentation, vision-language models, free-space estimation, and 3D occupancy prediction. I also developed embedded AI systems for NVIDIA Jetson, Raspberry Pi, and Rockchip, applying quantization and pruning to improve real-time performance by up to 30%.

I reduced the onboard perception software image from 2.1 GB to 0.3 GB and built containerized deployment workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubeflow-based model training and monitoring. I validate performance through simulation, lab testing, hardware integration, and on-water trials.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Autonomy & AI Engineer

Marine Thinking Inc.

Sep 2022 - Present (4 years 1 month)

Led development and deployment of autonomy capabilities for unmanned surface vehicles, contributing to end-to-end systems spanning perception, multi-sensor fusion, object tracking, environmental understanding, planning, navigation, and control. Designed and validated production-grade maritime perception and collision-avoidance systems, improving collision-avoidance accuracy by approximately 30%.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Dalhousie University logoDU

Dalhousie University

Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science

2021 - 2024

Bachelor of Computer Science with a Certificate in Data Science from Dalhousie University, completed from September 2021 to August 2024.

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Dalhousie University

Certificate in Data Science, Data Science

Certificate in Data Science from Dalhousie University, completed in 2024.

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NVIDIA

Getting Started with AI on Jetson Nano, Artificial Intelligence

Getting Started with AI on Jetson Nano certification from NVIDIA, completed in 2023.

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NVIDIA

Building Video AI Applications at the Edge on Jetson Nano, Artificial Intelligence

Building Video AI Applications at the Edge on Jetson Nano certification from NVIDIA, completed in 2023.

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Microsoft

Azure Fundamentals, Cloud Computing

Azure Fundamentals certification from Microsoft, completed in 2022.

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Dalhousie University

Bachelor of Science, Statistics

Grade: First Class Honours

Bachelor of Science in Statistics with First Class Honours from Dalhousie University, graduated in April 2017.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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