Mandel Yu

Experience

1. Sr Manager

   Velodyne Lidar

   Jun 2017 — Present

   Hired in as Principal FPGA Engineer at Velodyne Labs with Algorithms/DSP group. Currently Sr. Manager, Embedded Systems. Hands-on coding R&D for flagship rotational & directional Lidars: • Wrote RTL & C code in areas such as motor control, power control, signal processing, filtering, anti-alias algorithm, interference mitigation, image quality improvements, eye safety, optical artifact reduction. Was technical lead for detector, then for entire sensor firmware. • Wrote Python & C code for SDK, as well as HTML/JS for Web UI. • Developed math model (wrote Octave/Matlab code) for sensor behavior as # of sensors scaled, with experimental lab component. • Derived analysis for new ASIC feature pre-tapeout. • Derived statistical modeling method associated with customer RMA and yield issue. • Two patents filed. Managed direct reports: RTL design, validation, and embedded C. Mentored new generation of engineers as many left after company became public. Developed functional safety architecture, turned wish lists into actionable code implementation. Managed JIRA tickets; ran weekly project meetings. Led team in triaging yield issues. Led RTL & C development for improved manufacturing variation tolerance. Derived new R&D approach to catch problems quickly and iterate (fail) fast; drove cross functional adoption. Instrumental in new product R&D and first customer shipment hitting schedule where I led the firmware development. Served as a primary technical interface in weekly customer call. Worked with customer-side architect to address issues associated with shipped units. Managed multiple product pedigrees, releases, field upgrades and manufacturing compatibility issues. Instrumental in 100M+ USD investment deal. Performed security analysis and deriving security architecture. Wrote C code and brought up TPM and TLS security stack for embedded processor. Received Hero Award (quarterly employee award).

Education

• Stanford University

  MS, Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management

• Stanford University

  BSEE, MSEE, Concentration: Signal Processing, Digital Communications

  1992 — 1997