Hanson Lu Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, California, United States

Backend engineer in the AI Tooling Team.

Stanford, California, United States

I have been a Course Assistant for cs124, cs107 and cs230.

Stanford, California, United States

- Research systematic and modular behavior in neural network NLP systems using activation interventions, advised by Atticus Geiger and Chris Potts- Construct artificial datasets, train and tune CNN, RNN and Transformer models, implement experiment frameworks

Bellevue, Washington, United States

- Trained 2 Multi-Task Multi-Label Sparse Neural Networks to control Facebook App notification pushing- Reduced unwanted volume by 20%, increased user want rate by 3%, number of daily active story creators by 0.5% over 3 weeks- Collaborated with other teams to add more than 200 new user consumption pattern features in PHP/Hack for model training- Built and optimized data pipelines to aggregate and join training data with Presto, processing more than 100GB of data daily- Launched A/B experiments to evaluate real-world impact of neural models on more than 10M users

San Diego, California, United States

- Created sampling and caching service to speed up retrieving GPS coordinate data from large data center by at least 90%- Redesigned backend of 3D map data collection management client to run on expanding fleet of specialized data collection vehicles- Implemented and assisted in designing secure AWS IoT messaging protocol between client and data center for data collection tasks- Built thread-safe and failure-resistant on-vehicle storage system with disk footprint less than 2MB- Fixed off-route detection, redirection, and real-time notification functionalities on the above client

Wuhan, Hubei, China

- Develop new web application to serve over 1000 patients monthly for family-owned clinic- Create time-slot scheduling and appointment interface using Bootstrap, JavaScript, and the WeChat Mini App framework- Implement backend API using Python Flask; designing scalable database schemas with MySQL and SQLAlchemy- Reduce patients’ and staff’s time for making appointments by at least 70% compared to current methods

Chicago, Illinois, United States

- Researched applications to coreference resolution of the Rational Speech Acts (RSA) model, a probabilistic model for pragmatic text understanding; advised by Allyson Ettinger and part of honors BA thesis project - Implemented and trained Transformer and RNN-based referring expression generator, as part of the RSA model - Boosted state-of-the-art baseline model’s correct rate in predicting long distance links by 10-20%

Stanford, California, United States

- Explored applications of the RSA model in automatic text summarization, advised by Chris Potts- Integrated the RSA model with a pointer-generator neural summarizer in PyTorch- Increased sentence processing efficiency by 2000x compared to iterative prototype, using vectorization and profiler analysis- Presented research at concluding seminar at CSLI and at Undergrad Research Symposium at UChicago

Chicago, Illinois, United States

- Tutored intro-level chemistry (Winter ’18) and computer science (Autumn ’18 – Spring ’19) courses - Lead weekly 4-hour problem sessions in small groups of 5 to 10: answer questions, explain concepts and algorithms

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Concentration in Artificial Intelligence, Offered full tuition support in terms of Course/Research Assistantship

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer Science And Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Member of Phi Beta Kappa- Summa Cum Laude - Leonard Bloomfield Prize Recipient (highest GPA in linguistics.