Hi, I’m Yukun!

I am a final year Mechatronics Engineering student at McMaster University. At McMaster, Mechatronics is mostly on the software side. We focus on embedded software and HDLs. I’ve also done mechanical work such as robotics, mechanical vibrations, and dynamics. In terms of the electrical side, along with HDLs (Verilog) we have worked with electrical instrumentation and electricity and magnetism. This year, I am excited to be taking courses in parallel computing and computer networks!

Personally, I have a strong interest in Machine learning. Ever since attending NeurIPS 2018, I have been interested in the unsupervised learning of disentangled representations. Though I have focused on unsupervised methods currently this paper, it is mentioned that we should move from a passive learning style to an active one. I believe that finding proper representations of your data is what will lead to efficient and scalable continual learning, hierarchical learning, and interpretability.

I am also interested in deep learning in general, and I’m always open to talking about it!

About This Site:

Plans:

I plan on adding my insights for chapters of The Elements Of Statistical Learning II. I hope to make it easy to understand, and make it as intuitive as possible. I will be answer the question of “Why did they do that?” and “How does this make sense?”

Future ideas will be added later on, including projects and personal research ideas to tackle.

I will also blog about things I find interesting!

Some Non-Technical Facts About Me:

I like to play guitar, I’ve been playing guitar for quite a while. Since I started playing causally, my repertoire became quite limited!

One of my favourite sports is boxing, trained in boxing for a year and a half, while I was on coop at MDA. I needed to train my cardio and core, and boxing is a great sport for that. It also teaches how to remain relaxed under pressure, sparring in the ring is very different from bag work!

I also like to travel. Some of the places I have been to include Cuba, The Dominican Republic, US, England, France, Prague, Germany, Austria, and China. I’ve also road-tripped all around Canada.

Here’s a picture I took of a goat in Alberta: