Computer Vision

Course Project: Reinforcement Learning in self-playing video games (project_link)

• Reproduced OpenAI’s PPO algorithm and successfully trained AI to self-play MS-Pacman
• Optimized training performance by CNN feature extraction, motion tracking, and epsilon-greedy algorithm

Natural Language Processing

Course Project: Sentiment analysis of restaurant reviews (project_link)

• Implemented natural language processing model to predict polarity of restaurant reviews
• Improved accuracy by 2% using attention mechanisms, bi-LSTM (Long-Short Term Memory) and ABSA (Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis)

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Course Project: Question Answering algorithm comparison (project_link)

• Implemented a question answering system using BERT and achieved 0.80 F-1 score for SQuAD2.0
• Evaluated the effectiveness and limitations of unsupervised learning, supervised learning and BERT on QA task

Principles of Data Management

Course Project: JSON document database design and analysis (project_link)

• Designed and optimized relational database of json documents using MongoDB and MySQL
• Conducted comparison study between RDBMS and NoSQL

Cloud Computing

Course Project: Cloud drive application development using AWS (project_link)

• Implemented a could-based document storage application using AWS EC2 and S3 storage
• Designed and embedded a file merge tool into the application using MapReduce

Machine Learning

Course Project: Children learning process prediction (project_link)

• Performed EDA and feature extraction given a children’s game dataset
• Implemented and compared ML model accuracy

Hardware and FPGA Acceleration

Course Project: Hardware Acceleration of Neural Networks (project_link)

• Modeled MLP network on FPGA platform using Synphony Model Compiler
• Achieved 1.2x throughput over convention design using architecture-level optimization (folding, interleaving, and activation function approximation)

Other courses

Convex Optimization, Artificial Intelligence, Programming Techniques, Database Design and Programming, Statistical Method