Embedded SW/SYS engineer

Hi I’m Kevin Lee, former Sr. Firmware Engineer at Delta Electronics with 4+ years of automotive electronics experience. Currently pursuing an M.S. in Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems at UC Irvine. I’m passionate about creating reliable embedded software, system—and living a curious life connected to nature and people.

M.S. Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems Graduate Student, UC Irvine M.S. Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University

🗂️ My Resume «————-

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🤝Let’s Connect

LinkedIn | GitHub | ✉️kevin.chengchihlee@gmail.com | Irvine, CA

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🚀Projects

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• Range-Extended Hybrid Powertrain for MotorBike:

  Energy Management Strategy development and VCU prototyping.
  NTU Advanced Power R&D Center
  
  C|SIMULINK|STM32|CANBUS|dSPACE|
  Real-Time System|Automotive
  
  ⚙️Check for more detail
  
  In this project, a hybrid-powertrain was proposed with the prototype made. I was responsible for the Energy-Management-Strategy design and development on a VCU prototype.
  The VCU Prototype with energy-management-strategy embedded SW and CANBUS. CiL test with dSpace through drive cycle and vehicle model. Software StateChart & VCU in operation.
  

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• X-by-Wire Control EV Truck Platform:

  Fully by-wire controled EV truck platform development and HiL V&V platform development.
  NTU Advanced Power R&D Center
  
  EV|C|SIMULINK|STM32|CANBUS|dSPACE|
  Real-Time System|Automotive|HiL|
  
  In this project, an X-by-Wire controlled BEV truck platform and a corresponding Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) subsystem platform were proposed and developed. By performing detailed modeling and simulation of the vehicle and its subsystems, the architecture and specifications for both the truck and the HiL platform were defined. All subsystems were then developed and integrated into a closed-loop HiL environment using dSPACE for real-time vehicle dynamics and environment simulation. Finally, the subsystems were deployed on the target vehicle and successfully validated through a proof-of-concept (PoC) test run.
  
  The top-view of the developed vehicle. There’s no cockpit since it’s fully by-wire/remote controlled. One test run of the vehicle. The big box at the front contains all subsystem controllers. dSPACE Model Desk. Traction Motor HiL Platform. Steering System HiL Platform.

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• CANFD Tranceiver Module:

  CANFD Tranceiver Module with TCAN1042 and STM32.
  
  C|STM32|CANFD|Time Quantum|PCB
  
  🗂️Repository ⚙️To be updated…
  

Hardware Design
Designed a custom CAN FD transceiver PCB based on Texas Instruments TCAN1042
Integrated key supporting components, including:
Common-mode choke for EMI suppression
Termination resistor for impedance matching
Power conditioning and protection circuitry
Fabricated and assembled a working prototype board

Embedded Software Development
Used an STM32 evaluation board for driver and firmware implementation
Configured FDCAN peripheral for CAN FD communication

Implemented:
Frame transmission and reception
Interrupt-driven message handling
Loopback testing for early validation

System Configuration & Testing
Configured CAN FD with:
500 kbps nominal bitrate
2 Mbps data phase bitrate

Verified functionality in two stages:
Internal loopback mode (software validation)
Physical bus testing (hardware + network validation)

Results
Successfully achieved reliable CAN FD packet transmission and reception
Validated full communication chain:
MCU ↔ Transceiver ↔ Physical Bus ↔ Node
Demonstrated stable performance under real bus conditions

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• LightSwarm Network:

  IoT self-organizing network.
  
  C|Python|ESP32|RaspberryPi|UDP|FreeRTOS|Real-Time Sys
  
  🗂️Repository ⚙️Check for more detail
  

  In this project, a self-organizing LightSwarm is developped with communication through UDP. Multiple ESP32s are the swarm device and a RaspberryPi 5 as a master device for monitoring.
  
  The system flow-chart of the swarm network.

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• Infineon Aurix EV Traction Inverter Embedded SW:

  Delta Electronics Inc.
  
  C|Python|InfineonAurix|dSPACE|ASPICE|HiL|
  Jenkins|VectorCAST|MISRA C
  
  Development of the Embedded SW of an EV Traction Inverter, including CPU load analysis and optimization. During this project, the automated verification pipeline was also established for saving ~85% labor per SW release.

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• Face Swapping:

  Detecting faces in camera image and swapping with emojis
  
  Python|Raspberry Pi 5|Camera|
  
  Team: codersrule | gigaray
  
  🗂️Repository ⚙️Check for more detail
  

  This is a group project. In this project we used the RPi 5 and camera p5v04a to capture live images and detect human faces with cv2 to return the coordinate and area of faces detected. An image with 16 emojis is prepared for cropping and background removing. After these two parts are ready, the cropped emoji will be resized and placed on the image.
  
  This is the emoji collection to use.
  Before face swapping.
  After swapping.

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• p5v04a Camera Shot with RaspberryPi 5:

  Driving p5v04a with RPi
  
  Python|Raspberry Pi 5|Camera|
  
  🗂️Repository ⚙️Check for more detail
  

  This is a small part of a group project. I’m responsible for developing the camera APIs for further integration. In the repository, the scripts would run an easy image taking application. With input “s” or “q” for taking shots and quitting. The images would be stored in the same directory.

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