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General Information
Full Name | Keran Wang |
muke00915@gmail.com | |
Phone | +(1) 818-869-8688 | +(86) 15201525223 |
Education
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2024 Exchange
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL - Mathematics and Computer Sciences
- 4.0/4.0
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2021 Bachelor
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Research Experience
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2024 Research Assistant
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Advised by Dr. Koustuv Saha
- Developing a conversational chatbot for supporting mental health of caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) patients.
- Engineering natural language processing (NLP) pipelines for chatbot interactions, including tokenization, encoding, and sentiment analysis.
- Fine-tuning pre-trained language models on domain-specific datasets.
- Conducting user studies to gather feedback from caregivers, addressing their concerns and preferences regarding chatbot usage.
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2023 Research Assistant
University of Hong Kong - Advised by Prof. Kenneth Wong
- Developed machine learning models for analyzing echocardiography videos, focused on prediction of ejection fraction.
- Pioneered the use of machine learning models for predicting left atrial volume.
- Achieved breakthroughs in accuracy, boosting model performance by 17.4% with an R-square around 0.8.
- Addressed the model's initial bias by augmenting the dataset through both manually collected rare data cases and training the model for labeling video data.
Projects
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2024 Cloud-Based Restaurant Recommendation System
- Developed a scalable restaurant recommendation web application on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Using HTML for frontend, with Flask for backend services and MySQL for data management.
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2022 Big Two Card Game Development
- Developed a Java-based Big Two card game featuring GUI, event-handling for user actions.
- Implemented multi-threading and networking, enabling real-time data processing and server communication.
- Engineered a client-server architecture to facilitate network play for four players.
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2024 Website Development for Math Course
- Utilized foundational HTML elements, including DOCTYPE declaration, metadata, and links, to define and format web content.
- Employed GitBook styles and plugins, and customized CSS styles to enhance the visual presentation, functionality, and consistency of the site.
- Integrated JavaScript, using the jQuery library, to handle dynamic elements and interactive events.
- Implemented meta tags for SEO and page metadata management.
Honors and Awards
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2022 - Dean’s Honours List, University of Hong Kong
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2021 - HKU Worldwide Undergraduate Student Exchange Scholarships, University of Hong Kong
Skills
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Programming Languages
- Python, C++, C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, LaTeX, Markdown, Java
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Frameworks and Tools
- PyTorch, TensorFlow, Git, GDB, LaTeX, MySQL, MongoDB, Docker, GCP, Geogebra
Languages
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English
- IELTS 7.0
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Chinese
- Native Speaker
Working Experience
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2023 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong -
2023 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong -
2023 Student Ambassador
Centre of Development and Resources for Students, University of Hong Kong