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robertklee/README.md

Welcome to my GitHub!

πŸ‘‹ I am an award-winning and ambitious B.Eng. in computer engineering passionate about:

  • machine learning (in particular, LLMs and computer vision)
  • vector, semantic, graph, hybrid search
  • distributed systems
  • information retrieval & relevance
  • agents

πŸ’Ό Workplace: Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft.

My work sits at the intersection of information retrieval, vector search, and applied machine learning β€” improving relevance for complex global queries, grounding LLMs and multi-agent workflows in governed enterprise knowledge, and turning research prototypes into production-grade agentic retrieval and RAG capabilities.

Earlier, as a Software Engineer II, I was part of the team that took vector search from 1 to N and quantization from 0 to N β€” from building the capability to scaling it for broad production adoption. My contributions spanned quantization techniques that cut customer costs by 8–32Γ— and latency by up to 20Γ—, a hybrid-search relevance stack, and an extensible facet-aggregation engine built on formal grammar and parsing. I care deeply about performance, correctness, and distributed systems, and I'm often the engineer who root-causes the gnarliest production incidents.

Beyond shipping code, I love building communities. I graduated with a B.Eng in Electrical & Computer Engineering (97% CGPA, 20+ awards worth over $100K), drove a 200+ person conference from vision to reality, and grew a Senior's Program to 180+ volunteers and 650+ participants while delivering technical talks to 250+ engineering students. I also led a student team to train a deep neural network for human pose estimation from randomly initialized weights

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» I'm currently working on:

  • check out my website, complete with a chat experience, here!
  • a humourous website that showcases questionably horrible UX designs for the web, the Bad Designs Museum
  • currently working on a project exploring harness engineering and agent memory.

βœ… Some of my most exciting projects include:

  • Human Pose Estimation on COCO 2017 Dataset: I led a team to design and train a deep neural network for human pose estimation (labelling various joint locations). Using a modified stacked hourglass network and a newly implemented data ingestion and preprocessing pipeline, we achieved results comparable with state-of-the-art from late 2017, in less than three months of work. Check out our deployed model here

  • Road Segmentation Machine Learning Project on KITTI ROAD dataset: A convolutional neural network (CNN) for semantic segmentation of road surfaces within a driving context.

  • Embedded C Optimization Project with Discrete Cosine Transform algorithm: Implementation of DCT algorithm in C and optimizing performance using more efficient software algorithms, software-level optimizations, and hypothetical firmware- and hardware-based optimizations.

  • Computer Vision Project on Monocular Depth Estimation: A CNN for depth estimation on DrivingStereo dataset using Keras & Python.

πŸ“ Reach out to me on LinkedIn if you want to collaborate or connect!

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  1. COCO-Human-Pose COCO-Human-Pose Public

    Train a stacked hourglass deep neural network for human pose estimation on the COCO 2017 dataset.

    Python 50 13

  2. KITTI-RoadSeg KITTI-RoadSeg Public

    A course project for road segmentation using a U-Net Convolutional Neural Network on the KITTI ROAD 2013 dataset

    Python 21 8

  3. C-Optimization-DCT C-Optimization-DCT Public

    A course project on optimization of the DCT algorithm in C and ARM Assembly.

    C 13 1

  4. RoyalGameOfUr RoyalGameOfUr Public

    A simple 2-player networked game application with a server side and client side based on the game Royal Game of Ur

    Python 2

  5. DeclanMcIntosh/monodepthV2tf DeclanMcIntosh/monodepthV2tf Public

    Python 2

  6. Mobile-Chest-X-Ray-Analysis Mobile-Chest-X-Ray-Analysis Public

    This open source project contains source code to build a Xamarin iOS and Android mobile app. Once compiled the app can be used to analyze and interpret chest x-ray images. This experimental researc…

    C# 3 27