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Automated language assessment platform

Mention is an Chinese consulting agency specializing in engagement design and game mechanics. Our expertise lies in molding and modifying user behavior to generate a user base that is more engaged, more loyal, and better for your company's financial bottom line.We have been enlisted to build and improve everything from social networks to neural interfaces, and our clients include industry-leaders like Sina Weibo, Tianji.com, and renowned research institutions like Brown University's BrainGate project.

Traintracks is an award-winning real-time behavioral analytics platform that realizes the full potential of data-driven design.

Beijing, China

Building the most trusted social carpooling platform in China.

Research on indoors localization, ambient intelligence, and green computing.

Conducting green energy research under EECS Professor David Culler.Designing a mobile application that utilizes distributed networked embedded systems to measure energy usage in real time to help building occupants achieve the lowest possible energy consumption using financial and social incentives.

Designed and engineered SMS based technology that connects rural villagers to doctors in India to provide basic access to healthcare advice.

Designed, implemented, and maintained circuit layout designs of ARM processor as an 8 month co-op intern for Apple. Contributed to successful launch of test chip for iPhone 4. Used Cadence Virtuoso to create designs; used Calibre RVE for DRC, LVS, ERC, STDB, MEGB debugging. Engineered standard layout cells and edited massive megacell designs. Tasks included metal grid instantiation, via addition, PDV cleanup. Undertook benchmark tests for power efficiency, integrity, and stability. Created interactive web applications in order to streamline documentation of real-time edits of circuit designs and layouts. Developed a web-accessible automation Perl script to replace manual data entry which replaced a 26-hour manual process with an automated 2 hour process saving both manual hours and server load. Learned to effectively manage time and resources in a challenging business environment, owning three different projects at a time, meeting deadlines successfully and delivering completed products on time in a consistent, reliable manner.

Conducting nanotechnology research under Cal Engineering Professor Ronald S. Fearing in the field of gecko inspired adhesion, in collaboration with Kimberly Clark Corporation.

Responsible for enforcing Residential Computing's Appropriate Use Policy as well as for all security-related activities in Residential Student Services for the Residence Halls in the University of California, Berkeley. Responsible for heading, investigating, and concluding security incidents that have occurred within the residence hall network and RSSP systems - for example: identifying vulnerable resident and administrative computers, enforcing bandwidth policy, and investigating intrusion attempts to departmentally managed hosts. Responsible for helping design and produce the Be Secure CD, which is distributed to residents as a holistic security package to meet the Campus Minimum Security Standards.

Installed, maintained, and supported residential computers and residential computer networks for the Residential Computing In-Room Connection (IRC) program of the University of California, Berkeley. Provided desktop workstation support in each residential unit’s Academic Services Center (ASC). In addition to direct computer troubleshooting, educated residents about technology resources to promote academic and personal growth.

Lead and facilitate groups of twenty new students or their guests for each of fifteen Cal-Berkeley orientation programs in June and July; listen to and address student and guest concerns; explain University procedures and policies; make presentations in front of large groups; and give administrative support.

Programming in C - assisted with Engineering Tasks on the JTRS program (Joint Tactical Radio System), a radio transmission program designed for the military.