Work Experience

University of Pennsylvania

Research Assistant Pennsylvania, USA Oct. 2021 - Dec. 2022 Supervisor: Pratik Chaudhari

• Worked in the DARPA Forecasting Floats in Turbulence (FFT) challenge. • Predicted the trajectories of 94 drifts on North Atlantic Ocean using classical models such as LSTM and Transformer. • Used Knowledge-Based Neural Ordinary Differential Equations to embed additional flow data into data-driven models • Achieved an average distance of 40km between ground truth and the predictions.

Amazon Information Service (Beijing) Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch

Software Development Engineer Intern.
Shanghai, China
Mar. 2020 - Aug. 2021
Supervisor: Bernie Wang

• Contributed to two open-source packages GluonTS and AutoGluon, with more than 7000 lines of code in over 20 PRs.
• Developed the AutoML tool for time series in AutoGluon, which reduced the weighted quantile loss on m4 dataset by ∼10%.
• Designed AutoTabular model in GluonTS packages, for time-series data preprocessing into tabular format.
• Added 5 additional information into the transformed tabular data, which catches information related to time.

New York University Shanghai

Teaching Assistant
Shanghai, China
Aug. 2020 - May. 2021
Supervisor: Prof. Bruno Abrahao and Prof. Lihua Xu

• Led recitations for Introduction to Computer Programming, a course for basic programming skills.
• Led recitations for Introduction to Machine Learning, which is a graduate level course. Topics includes classic machine learning, deep learning and reinforcement learning. Helped designing homework and exam questions. Course Site here

Shanghai Yo-i Business Information Consulting Co., Ltd.

Assistant consultant, Product Development Dept.
Shanghai, China
Jun. 2018 - Aug. 2018
Supervisor: Dr. Biao Cheng

• Self-designed a script using Python that could be used to extract data from several different excel tables
• Gave presentations on python to help the workers get familiar with Python

Sartorius Stedim (Shanghai) Trading Co., Ltd.

Market Analysis Intern, Technical
Shanghai, China
Jul. 2017 - Aug. 2017
Supervisor: Daisy Ying

• Organized the 5-year sales data, used Python to combine the sales related to the same company and ended up with a table where each partner company has only one aggregation row
• Used this table to analyze the sales data for different companies and different region and made a presentation on the trend of the sales
• Drafted a survey on the working experience for the workers and made a report according to the survey result