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San Jose, California, United States

• Led the development of the DSA (Digital Services Act) Reporting Hub project, ensuring compliance with EU digital regulations and preventing potential fines of up to 6% of annual revenue. This platform consolidated moderation actions (~2M daily) from 15 content teams and submitted them to EU transparency database near real time.• Orchestrated cross-functional collaboration to design and implement the data model, API, and database schema, addressing challenges such as rate throttling and query timeouts caused by high data volume.• Spearheaded the development and progression of the DSA Legal Moderation Platform, initially contributing to Phase 1 and subsequently assuming leadership roles in Phases 2 and 3. This internal tool empowered the legal team to effectively moderate EU report cases (~15K weekly), ensuring compliance with stringent digital regulations.

San Jose, California, United States

• Led backend development efforts to enhance search capabilities and ticket management workflows within the Law Enforcement Response Tool (LERT) platform, resulting in a notable 10% improvement in query efficiency.• Developed a notification system to streamline the resolution of legal inquiries and improve user experience.• Conducted learning session on Go development and actively resolved on-call issues, contributing to the platform's reliability and performance.

San Diego, California, United States

• Analyzed driver pose data utilizing OpenPose (pose estimation model) to enhance driver safety protocols.• Leveraged dimensionality reduction techniques such as UMAP to visualize pose data in a 2D embedding space, facilitating intuitive insights into driver behavior.• Employed HDBSCAN to cluster the data, enabling the identification of meaningful patterns and trends.• Adapted an image transformer model (ViT) to accurately predict various types of driver distractions, achieving an impressive accuracy rate of 80%.

New York, United States

• Enhanced the performance and redesigned the website front-end using the Angular framework.• Modified the SQLite database and enhanced functionality on login/register and game prediction pages.• Segregated the staging backend from the production backend to streamline development processes and minimize risks. Deployed the application on AWS EC2, ensuring scalability and reliability.

San Diego, California, United States

• Developed image classification model using TensorFlow in Python to detect early signs of wildfire smoke.• Conducted comprehensive image data preprocessing and augmentation using Keras ImageDataGenerator, ensuring the model's robustness and accuracy.• Explored various pre-trained models and hyper-parameters to optimize model performance. Achieved over 85% accuracy by utilizing gridded images with overlapping square segments.

San Diego, California, United States

• Tutored Theory of Computability (CSE 105) for 400 UCSD undergraduates from Automata theory to complexity analysis• Held office hours; graded assignments and examinations; facilitated in-class discussion• Answered students’ questions via email, asked in person or post in Piazza

Beijing City, China

• Constructed HD Map for autonomous driving vehicle based on videos from dash cameras and GPS data• Preprocessed videos using Tensorflow in Python and applied deep learning algorithms (DeepLabv3+, Faster-RCNN) to perform object segmentation and object detection• Visualized numerical data generated from videos through Ruby console of 3D modeling software• Experimented with idea of crowd-sourcing maps and projected to save ~one million dollars annually

San Diego

• Created and developed platforms for selling and advertising Skatebolt products; increased monthly revenue by 30%• Collaborated with engineers and Skatebolt manufactory about product design• Launched the first and second-generation electric skateboard product through Kickstarter

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

• Set up Solr, an open source search platform, with IkAnalyzer• Wrote methods in Solr using Java for the specific purpose of the company

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics And Computer Science