Payments Software Engineer, Apple Pay

• Worked on hosted experiment input management, which provides user-friendly interfaces to support developers to register, look up, send and delete experiment inputs for Raffia experiments by RPC calls.• Designed a general processor interface that extends the current input registration service to give users the flexibility to define and implement customized task processors to do the data pre-processing job.• Developed two widely used processors based on the interface, which greatly reduce the effort needed when registering inputs.

Teaching Assistant for Software Engineering CourseDesigned the course project and led five teams to develop a sports information management system for the university, using Django, Node.js, React and Angular.

SCIPR: Sensing Curiosity in Play and RespondingProfessor: Justine Cassell, Language Technologies Institute • Designed, implemented and tested the game reasoner, the core algorithmic module of the embodied conversational agent (ECA) to engage in the specific designed collaborative tabletop game and elicit curiosity during the gameplay.• Implemented the system integration of understanding, game reasoning, and behavior generation modules of the ECA.• Conducted a solid survey of ECA labs around the world and proposed long-term improvement suggestions for the project.

Lookine: Facial Expression and Head Movement Recognition System Professor: Jia Jia, Human Computer Speech Interaction Research Group• Designed a cross-platform system that helps blind people obtain adequate nonverbal information including facial expressions and head movements in social communication.• Implemented the real-time recognition of Facial Action Units through the secondary development of the open source toolkit OpenFace, improving the offline calibration algorithm to be online to meet real-time requirement.• Proposed a novel head movement recognition algorithm using finite state machine based on the accurate estimation of the head pose, which transcended the traditional SVM algorithm in both accuracy and speed of recognition.

Teaching Assistant for Fundamentals of Programming (C++) Course.