Benjamin Hwang Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Los Angeles, California, Us

Satellite Beach, Florida, Us

Independent consultant working in research, development, and implementation of AI systems for generative music systems. Current contract is with a Fortune 50 company.

New York, Us

• Leading model development and research for our largest retail client exploring the use of Machine Learning to attribute marketing spend and metrics to in-store sales trends. Additional emphasis on exploring interpretable model techniques to aid media planning• Synthesized and automated reports for media planners with relevant KPIs and analysis needed to make decisions on media spend for various marketing channels. This also entailed being a main point of contact for the media teams for any updates or maintenance as necessary.• Created and managed SQL (Snowflake) databases for new incoming pharmaceutical clients. This entailed setting up all necessary ETL processes and creating SQL view logic for various types of reporting.

New York, Ny, Us

\Art awards a major $100k grant each year to a practicing NYC-based artist and two Cornell Tech graduates to collaborate full-time on a significant work of art that uses bleeding edge digital technology to provoke novel opportunities for their work.• Researched, experimented, and tested various mediums for expressing thematic content. This included building various Generative Adversarial Networks for producing visual representations of propaganda, implementing Neural Style Transfer for blending metaphorical imagery, using Reinforcement Learning and Imitation Learning to generate novel behaviors in a 3D simulation. • Quickly prototyped and iterated through various ideas and technologies presenting and explaining the results to the artist to help inform artistic decisions • Completed a project with the artist using text generation techniques (mainly LSTMs) to generate song lyrics that used a blend of physiological literature from B.F. Skinner and various R&B artist lyrics. Final piece was recorded by a musician and used for a three-channel video installation commissioned by the UCCA Centre of Contemporary Art https://backslashart.org/

Washington, Dc, Us

• Committed to 10 months of team-based community service work throughout seven states in the southwestern part of the US. Service work includes: disaster relief, environmental stewardship, urban development, etc.• Served 6 weeks in a small rural town in southern Colorado in the second poorest county in the state. Worked on transforming an abandoned ski area into a public recreation area for the community and other smaller community projects. Responsibilities included trail building work, splitting firewood for low-income families, demolition and cleanup of abandoned buildings, etc. • Serving 12 weeks in Wichita Falls Texas with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. Working as a free tax preparer for low to middle income families within the community and surrounding rural areas with the objective to maximize potential refunds and promote financial literacy for the families we serve. As a team we successfully saw over 2,000 clients, saved over $400,000 in client prep fees, and generated over $3.5 million in federal refunds.• Served 6 weeks in Humacao, Puerto Rico doing disaster relief work for those severely affected by hurricane Maria. Work included small home repairs, mucking and gutting, and other general aid.

London, Gb

• Pioneering member and leader of EY’s first ever Race Across America Team (RAAM) for charity. Served as lead navigator and architect of model used to plan logistics and benchmark performance surrounding the 3,000-mile race. Was chosen to directly interface with senior partners to track progress and address issues. The race was successful, and the team placed first in its division.• Collaborated with a client bank on establishing a customized strategy and implementation for a new Anti-Money Laundering (AML) transaction monitoring system. This included analyzing and segmenting the bank’s customer and account populations and all subsequent transaction behavior. This resulted in establishing and coding (PL/SQL) 10 different transaction monitoring scenarios which were presented and approved by the business.• Independently worked with a wealth management client to review End User Developed tools for highly critical processes which instruct cash movements. Assessed over 20 different tools by meeting with various business leaders to gain understanding of each unique process and then evaluated VBA scripts, SQL code, and other related technical aspects of the tools to make recommendations ensuring proper security and function. This resulted in identifying a major issue in a foreign exchange process which was then escalated for immediate remediation.• Served as a technical specialist for audit teams in EY’s Derivatives Valuation Center. Worked independently to value audit client derivative portfolios and provide valuation results and recommendations for comparing the clients’ valuations to our own independent calculations. Managed /handled 3-4 clients at a time and successfully completed over 30 portfolio valuations over the course of a few months.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

Assist Graduate TA's in instructing Mechanics/Electricity & Magnitism. Held office hours and also tutored for physics courses geared towards pre-med students. In addition attended seminars to improve teaching and communication skills associated with being a teacher of STEM disciplines.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

Responsible for maintaining and ensuring safe use of equipment and adherence to gym policies.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

Led/Taught a two hour supplementary recitation for Engineering level Calculus II and Probability & Statistics for Engineers. Responsibilities included preparing weekly lesson plans and worksheets for students and participating in weekly meetings to improve teaching skills.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Created a dashboard that pulls up key quality metrics for every area across Heavy and Light Fabrication buildings. Used SQL to pull up defect details and project information to accompany dashboard metrics so that Quality teams could quickly analyze and react to defects being reported.• Led a Simplification project to implement a mobile touchscreen document control cart to assist workers with manufacturing instructions, technical drawings, 3D PDF documents, etc. Used to reduce waste and standardize dissemination of work plans for workers on the manufacturing floor.• Organized an intern team in redesigning/implementing a new training software used to assign and keep track of worker training and progress

New York, Ny, Us

Worked closely with the Operations department to monitor and assist in the daily operations of the 9/11 Memorial. Was responsible for a wide range of tasks from assisting on site at the plaza, to analyzing occupancy reports and databases. Primary projects including assembling insights which detailed several key metrics with regards to occupancy of the memorial to improve the visitor experience and organizing and executing the establishment of the tradition of putting roses in victims' name engraving for their birthdays.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Operations Research And Information Engineering

Bachelor'S Of Science, Major: Operations Research And Information Engineering

Diploma