About Me

I am a final year student majoring in electronic engineering with a minor in big data technology at HKUST from Hong Kong and am interested in data science, creating computer vision models, and web development. I am currently working on my final year project titled "Optofluidic Methods and Machine Learning Techniques for the Classification of Red Blood Cells Based on Young's Modulus" in MATLAB and Python.

Interests

  • Computer Vision

    Building models to analyse image and video data.

  • Data Science

    Analysing biological data to make timely decisions.

  • Web Development

    Making high-quality websites to promote women in STEM.

  • Photography

    Taking scenic photographs as a pastime.

Resume

Education

  1. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong

    BEng Electronic Engineering, Minor in Big Data Technology
    09/2020 — Present

    Awards: Academic Admissions Scholarship (2020); First Runner Up, Best Final Year Project Midterm Presentation (2024)

  2. West Island School (WIS), Hong Kong

    IB Diploma: HL Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Economics; SL English A Literature, Chinese B
    09/2014 — 06/2020

    Awards: UKMT Senior Challenge Bronze (2018) and Silver Certificate (2019)

Work Experience

  1. Machine Learning Intern

    Asgard.World, Hong Kong (Remote)
    06/2023 — 08/2023

    Completed a remote internship on machine learning and computer vision with Asgard.World, a London-based startup. This involved using YOLOv5 and Python libraries such as OpenCV, PyTesseract and PyTorch to create a computer vision web scraper to extract product information from e-commerce sites.

  2. Python Intern

    Nascent Consultancy, Hong Kong
    2013 — 2015

    Performed Continuous Integration/Continuous Development with various Application Program Interfaces, which is a method to frequently deliver apps to customers by introducing automation into the stages of app development. This was done as follows: used the Python library Django and developed code on Gitlab, and then automated this code to deploy it on Google Cloud Run, a platform hosted by Google to launch apps.

Other Programming Experience

  1. Code For Good

    JPMorgan Chase, Hong Kong
    10/2023

    Participated in a 12-hour social good hackathon hosted by JPMC HK. Our team used Java Script, HTML, and CSS to build a prototype website to help students apply for job shadowing programs. This involved creating a questionnaire to determine the student's interests and suggesting relevant opportunities and adding functionalities for the teacher to approve the student's selections.

  2. INSPIRE Women in Technology

    Credit Suisse, Hong Kong
    04/2022 — 06/2022

    Selected by Credit Suisse to participate in a mentorship program. This involved using Django, React.JS, HTML and CSS to build a prototype website with a membership feature, forum, events calendar, featured articles of women in STEM and interactive map of the members.

Volunteer and Community Experience

  1. Underwater Robot Community Engagement Project

    HKUST
    02/2023 - 05/2023

    Worked with an interdisciplinary team to come up with workshops to help primary school students (some with special educational needs) build and work with underwater robots.

  2. Engineering Peer Mentor

    HKUST
    09/2023 — Present

    Provide mentoring to first year engineering students, assisting them in making decisions regarding course choices and selecting a suitable major.

  3. Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) Student Ambassador

    HKUST ECE Department
    11/2021 — Present

    Represented the ECE department in the Engineering Info Day, to promote the department to first year students.

  4. Engineering Student Ambassador

    HKUST
    10/2021 — 12/2022

    Represented HKUST SENG in various activities, such as University Info Day, to promote SENG to prospective university students.

  5. Hall VII Leadership Team

    HKUST
    08/2021 — Present

    Elected by the Hall VII residents to work with fellow leadership team members and hall tutors to organise and host gatherings for the hall in order to foster community and social relations.

  6. Project C x Community

    HKUST
    08/2020 — 05/2021

    Participated in extracurricular community service activities including Mapathon, beach clean-up and virtual community tour at Sham Shui Po.

  7. Senior Digital Leader

    WIS
    10/2017 — 06/2020

    Represented the WIS technology department and hosted events including the annual Hong Kong Digital Leader Summit, Cyber Security Week. Part of a student panel at the Global 21st Century Learning Conference that discussed the effects of technology in the classroom. Presented to the Swedish delegation (including Prince Carl) about future projects at WIS. Founded a girls-exclusive coding club to teach them Python and guided them in creating a simple text-based game.

Online Certifications

  1. Ask Questions to Make Data-Driven Decisions

    Google Career Certificates & Coursera
    09/2022
  2. Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere

    Google Career Certificates & Coursera
    09/2022
  3. Software Engineering Virtual Experience

    JPMorgan & Coursera
    05/2022
  4. Introduction to Programming with MATLAB

    Vanderbilt Univerisity & Coursera
    01/2022
  5. Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra

    Imperial College London & Coursera
    06/2021
  6. Python Data Structures

    University of Michigan & Coursera
    06/2021
  7. Using Databases with Python

    University of Michigan & Coursera
    06/2021
  8. Using Python to Access Web Data

    University of Michigan & Coursera
    06/2021
  9. The Data Scientist's Toolbox

    The Johns Hopkins University & Coursera
    01/2021
  10. Python Classes and Inheritance

    University of Michigan & Coursera
    12/2020
  11. Building with Artificial Intelligence: Fundamentals of Software Engineering and Coding

    BSD Education
    06/2020
  12. DEV276x: Learn to Program in Java

    Microsoft & Edx
    05/2020
 

Programming Languages

  • Python
    Proficient
  • MATLAB
    Proficient
  • C++
    Proficient
  • JavaScript
    Intermediate
  • HTML
    Intermediate
  • CSS
    Intermediate
 

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Languages

  • English
    Native Proficiency
  • Mandarin
    Full Professional Proficiency
  • Hindi
    Professional Working Proficiency
 

Projects