About Me

Contact

hlio [at] hawaii.edu

My background

I am an Embedded Systems Engineer + Technician in the Oceanography department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I design and build tools to support research projects in marine tech development, conservation and management, and physical oceanography.

I have been tinkering with electronics ever since I could remember. There was no such thing as "Instructables" or "Arduino", and I was learning electronics as much as I was learning English and online forum etiquette. Now I design IoT sensors for flood monitoring, build automation systems for coral research, and write software for a deep water profiler, among other things.

I have an MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California. I got my BASc in Computer Engineering from York University in Ontario, Canada. I am a co-founder of Hohonu Inc.

"Where are you from?"

I grew up in Macao/Hong Kong, but I have spent half of my life in US and Canada so far. I can speak Cantonese and some Mandarin Chinese.

Pretty much everyone who knows me on this half of the Earth calls me Stanley. My last name Lio is pronounced like "Leo".