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General Information

Full Name Keran Wang
Email muke00915@gmail.com
Phone +(1) 818-869-8688 | +(86) 15201525223

Education

  • 2024
    Exchange
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
    • Mathematics and Computer Sciences
    • 4.0/4.0
  • 2021
    Bachelor
    University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • Mathematics and Computer Sciences

Research Experience

  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 2022
    • Dean’s Honours List, University of Hong Kong
  • 2021
    • HKU Worldwide Undergraduate Student Exchange Scholarships, University of Hong Kong

Skills

  • Programming Languages
    • Python, C++, C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, LaTeX, Markdown, Java
  • Frameworks and Tools
    • PyTorch, TensorFlow, Git, GDB, LaTeX, MySQL, MongoDB, Docker, GCP, Geogebra

Languages

  • English
    • IELTS 7.0
  • Chinese
    • Native Speaker

Working Experience

  • 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