Research Intern, Visa Research, Visa Inc., Palo Alto, California, US.
Summer 2020.
Supervisor: Wei Zhang.
Task: Worked with a team to conduct research on analyzing large-scale transaction data, and delivered innovative technologies and insights to Visa's strategic products and business. Received the review of "Exceed Expectation" from the manager at the end of the internship.
Research Intern, AI Labs, Didi Chuxing Inc., Beijing, China.
Summer 2018.
Supervisor: Dr. Hongtu Zhu & Dr. Jieping Ye.
Task: Analyzed large amounts of data pertaining to driver’s driving behavior, which helped the company draft
competitive and attractive pricing strategies for drivers.
Teaching Experiences
Guest Lecturer in DS595/CS525: Reinforcement Learning at WPI.
Fall 2019.
Topic: Introduced the details of applying reinforcement learning tachniques to real world data mining tasks, e.g., urban computing.
Supervisor of the NSF funded REU Students at WPI.
Summer 2019.
Team: Jack J Amend, Elizabeth Hennen, Megan Resurreccion, Huimin Ren, Weixiao Huang, Menghai Pan, Yanhua Li, and Lane Harrison.
Project: Exploration and Analysis of Large Scale Municipal Data [Website]
Supervisor of the NSF funded REU Students at WPI.
Summer 2017.
Team: Lucas Pelegrin (REU student from Michigan Technological University), Christian Huacon (REU student from Hostos Community College), Menghai Pan, Yanhua Li, Jian (Frank) Zou.
Project: Designing Scalable and Interactive Visualization System for Massive Urban Data [Website]
Teaching Assistant at WPI.
(TA of the year award in Computer Science Department of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2019)
CS534: Artificial Intelligence for Graduate Students,
CS4515: Computer Architecture,
CS4404: Network Security,
CS3516: Computer Network.
Services
Student Volunteer at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020 virtural conference.
Webmaster for the Official Websites of SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing.[2020, 2019]
