Taiyi Pan Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Proposed and executed the NYC-Event-VPR project to bridge the data gap between neuromorphic event-based vision technology and frame-based visual place recognition (VPR) frameworks
• Conducted an extensive literature review to identify state-of-the-art VPR methods, including the NetVLAD architecture and novel event-to-frame conversion methods
• Facilitated a multi-modal sensor setup, including an event camera, and data collection pipeline

Tottori, Japan

• Selected into the competitive international program sponsored by the Japanese government to teach English in Japanese schools
• Taught at Tottori City Higashi JHS and Nakanogo JHS, and their 5 subsidiary elementary schools
• Worked with Japanese Teachers of English (JTE) as an ALT to advance English language education in Japan
• Conducted daily lessons, developed lesson plans, and prepared class materials
• Worked with a team of junior high school ALTs to organize and facilitate English Caravans and delivered English activities for ES students
• Coached top students for the annual prefecture-level English Speech Contest

Washington, DC

• Covered news stories at the National Press Building for TV Asahi DC Bureau, a major Japanese commercial broadcaster
• Acted as a correspondent to Department of State daily press briefings, covering topics of interest to the bureau, and recording background comments from the spokesperson
• Remotely covered White House press briefings, congressional briefings and hearings, DoJ briefings, and international summits like the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue
• Attended and covered events at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Peterson Institute, International Trade Forum, Foreign Press Center, National Press Club, and other think tanks and venues

Washington, DC

• Investigated Class 2 felony cases for PDS staff attorneys
• Conducted crime scene investigations and interviewed witnesses
• Created evidence analysis reports, served subpoenas, filed motions, and gathered records and evidence from relevant parties
• Managed the workload of simultaneous investigations between 20 to 30 criminal cases at any moment
• Routinely went to DC Superior Court, district courts in nearby counties, DC Jail, halfway houses, crime scenes, residences of people of interest, mental institutions, for field work in addition to office duties at PDS

Washington, DC

• Briefed Dennis Kux, senior policy scholar at the Wilson Center and the former U.S. ambassador to Ivory Coast, on the current political developments between India and Pakistan for his upcoming publication on.
• Collected historical documents from the Library of Congress for Kenton Clymer, distinguished Burma scholar, on his Burmese history project; transcribed his interviews with top U.S. diplomats to Burma
• Attended various academic and public policy events hosted by the center, including high profile appearances by high level officials and top scholars

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering

Computer Science Certificate - Java Programming, Computer Science

Recipient of Osher Endowment Scholarship for academic excellence

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science

Dean's Honors List for academic achievements

London School Of Economics And Peking University (Lse-Pku) Summer School, International Relations Program