Qianhao (Howell) Yu

AI Researcher

Chicago, Illinois, United States7 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
  • Proven track record of improving document processing efficiency.
  • Strong leadership in NLP research and development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning and NLP expert in the Fintech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (ai)Natural Language Processing

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)BashC++Computer VisionData AnalysisData MiningData ScienceDeep LearningDocument ClassificationHadoopJSONKanbanLaTeXLarge Language Models (LLM)

About

• NLP Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Scientist. • Work experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL), and related state-of-the-art (SOTA) solutions and business applications.

Experience

Citadel

Machine Learning Engineer

May 2020Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Machine Learning Researcher
  • AI Engineer
Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)ResearchLarge Language Models (LLM)Deep LearningTrading

Kpmg us

NLP Data Scientist

Jul 2018May 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • News analysis, Name Entity Recognition (NER), Research
  • Build various Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning models to improve document processing and understanding efficiency by > 90%. Projects/tooling include:
  • Machine Translation (Transformer, BERT)
  • Text Summarization (Pointer Network, Bi-LSTM RNN)
  • Name Entity Extraction (NER)
  • Document Classification (ELMo, GPT)
  • Tooling: Spacy, Huggingface, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras
  • Lead research of NLP development in KPMG Cognitive Lab. Enhanced multiple algorithms in the past 2 years by leveraging state-of-the-art (SOTA) solutions in the industry.
  • Implement multiple NLP models to different requests from various clients (Financial Services, Technology, Professional Services, etc.) to help reduce labor costs significantly.
  • Being an independent researcher and own full life-cycle of the products include research, prototyping, proof-of-concept (POC), testing, deployment, and production. Shared research results with team members from the dev team, data science team, and clients as a solid thought leader.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Natural Language ProcessingMachine LearningResearchDocument ClassificationText Summarization+2

Nations info corp

NLP / Machine Learning Intern

Nov 2017May 2018 · 6 mos · Ithaca, New York Area

  • Led a team of 3 to design and draft marketing solutions by providing the client with data insights draw from customers' feedback data. Offer the client 4 viable marketing plans that will increase customer satisfaction, improve advertisement efficiency, and reduce cost significantly.
  • Build Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and NLP techniques such as word2vec word-embedding, Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), n-gram, and LDA topic modeling to identify customers' feedback data pattern.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Baidu, inc.

Machine Learning Intern

Jun 2016Sep 2016 · 3 mos · Beijing City, China

  • Developed a new algorithm independently to identify and filter possible paths of trash of Android apps. Reduce human efforts by > 90%.
  • Experimented machine learning methods such as logistic regression and Bayesian model to identify possible paths
  • Collaborated closely with cross-functional groups such as PM and Tech to improve my algorithm
  • Analyzed different mobile apps and developed innovated business insights to assist executive team's decision-making
Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Veritable screening

Marketing Analytics Intern

Jun 2015Sep 2015 · 3 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Designed company webpage using online webpage designer Wufoo. Improve customer click-through-rate and completion rate by ~300%.
  • Promoted company with marketing campaigns by analyzing web traffic data on Hubspot.

Hangzhou thinktown school

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2014Oct 2014 · 1 mo · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Education

Cornell University

Master's degree — Applied Statistics

Jan 2017Jan 2018

UCLA

Bachelor of Science - BS

Jan 2013Jun 2017

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