Wei Lin
Staff Software Engineer · Distributed Systems & Cloud-Native Infrastructure · Los Angeles, CA
Go
Python
C/C++
Distributed Systems
AWS (Lambda / EKS / Kinesis)
WebRTC & Real-Time Streaming
ML Deployment
Wei is a Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years building 0-to-1 platforms, most recently distributed access-control infrastructure and real-time streaming systems on AWS. He has been part of two startups that reached successful acquisitions: Openpath Security (acquired by Motorola Solutions) and Inspire Energy (acquired by Shell).
He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and researches optimization, game theory, and multi-agent systems, and lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Experience
- Staff Software Engineer · Openpath Security (acquired by Motorola Solutions) Building cloud-native infrastructure (AWS Lambda/EKS/Kinesis) and real-time streaming (WebRTC) for AI-enabled smart access control devices.
- Senior Software Engineer · Inspire Energy (acquired by Shell) Distributed systems for data analytics, optimization, and predictive modeling.
- Software Engineer · Western Digital Adaptive filtering and sensor fusion algorithms for active hard drive vibration control.
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
- M.S., Electrical Engineering
- B.E., Automation
Journal Publications
- Wei Lin, Chaoyong Li, Zhihua Qu, and Marwan Simaan, “Distributed Formation Control with Open-Loop Nash Strategy”, Automatica, vol.106, pp.266-273, 2019 Link
- Wei Lin, Zhihua Qu, and Marwan Simaan, “Nash strategies for pursuit-evasion differential games involving limited observations”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 1347-1356, 2015 Link
- Wei Lin, “Distributed UAV formation control using differential game approach”, Aerospace Science and Technology, vol. 35, pp. 54-62, 2014 Link
- Ali Maknouninejad, Wei Lin, Hendro Harno, Zhihua Qu, and Marwan Simaan, “Cooperative control for self-organizing microgrids and game strategies for optimal dispatch of distributed renewable generations”, Energy Systems, vol. 3 no. 1, pp. 23-60, 2012 Link
Conference Publications
- Wei Lin, Zhihua Qu, and Marwan Simaan, “Distributed game strategy design with application to multi-agent formation control”, IEEE 53rd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 433-438, 2014 Link
- Wei Lin, Zhihua Qu, and Marwan Simaan, “Multi-pursuer single-evader differential games with limited observations”, American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 2711-2716, 2013 Link
- Ali Maknouninejad, Wei Lin, and Zhihua Qu, “Optimum design and analysis of the cooperative control, applied to the distributed generators control in smart grids”, IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), pp. 1-6, 2013 Link
- Wei Lin, Zhihua Qu, and Marwan Simaan, “A Design of entrapment strategies for the distributed pursuit-evasion game”, 18th IFAC World Congress, pp. 9334-9339, 2011 Link
- Wei Lin, Zhihua Qu, Marwan Simaan, “A design of distributed nonzero-sum Nash strategies”, 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 6305-6310, 2010 Link
Dissertation
- Wei Lin, “Differential Games For Multi-agent Systems Under Distributed Information”, University of Central Florida, Dec 2013 Link
Project
- Wei Lin and Michael Caramanis, “Optimal Energy Purchase in different Markets for Electric Automobile”, Boston University, 2009 Link