Aug 2014 – Dec 2018 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Greater Chicago Area

• Led design and implementation of “Project Juice”, an urgency campaign offered at a user-level that combines the power of urgency and personalized pricing to give users timed discounts at various points in the conversion funnel.
• Lead contributor on Quantum Engineered Data (QED) which is an ETL management and curated feature catalog system to streamline machine learning pipelines. QED provides more than 100 data points and serves as the data backend for a variety of machine learning models. Paper published at IEEE.
• Contributed to Flux, a self-service machine learning platform. It enables data scientists to leverage a scalable architecture, allowing them to execute machine learning tasks on large data sets, without needing to code distributed or low-latency algorithms themselves. Paper published at IEEE.

Aug 2013 – May 2014 · 9 mos · Champaign, IL

• Selected as one of five outstanding teaching assistant among my peer group (over 100 people).
• Teach Excel and VBA for three lab sections, in total about 150 students.
• Responsible for creating and managing course honor project.
• Held office hour to help student with programming assignments.
• Worked with six other TAs on exam questions, grading, piazza, course website and assignments.

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Champaign, IL

• Worked on 12 tickets as part of the scrum team on Data Highway Rainbow project.
• Implemented HTTP client in JAVA with flow control and load balancing. The new HTTP client improves system performance.
• Created web proxy in JAVA that bridge between different authentications to help Rainbow using other web services.
• Created a command line tool in JAVA that helps rolling deployment with zero down time.

Mar 2012 – Aug 2012 · 5 mos · East Lansing, MI

• Developed and designed company’s new official website.
• Leader of the official website project and successfully made the website goes live in four months.
• Wrote Excel Macro for processing biological data.
• Developed and designed employee about-me mobile website.

May 2011 – Dec 2011 · 7 mos · East Lansing, MI

• Help developed a new algorithm (implemented in C#) for compressing multi-dimensional rule lists. The new algorithm is efficient and outperforms other algorithms.
• Leader and major developer on implementing the algorithm.
• Conducted literature review and implemented related approaches and developed comparison
• tests of the algorithms’ performance for this problem.
• Implemented two compressors related with the new algorithm for 2-dimensional rule lists.
• Developed a program to help user generate test data.

Feb 2011 – May 2011 · 3 mos · East Lansing, MI

• Independently developing C# software to process large-scale gene data from different experiments, with the goal of determine the optimal time point for biologist to measure.
• Responsible for all phases of software development, including software design, implementation, user interface design, testing and project management.
• Collaborating with a Biology doctoral student to develop software that incorporates appropriate domain knowledge and meets experimental needs.