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Jiahong Li

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About Me

Ph.D. student in Computational Media at UCSC with a strong foundation in Comp Sci, AI, Data Science, and Game Dev.
As the CTO & Co-Founder of 烁SHUO, I bring hands-on experience in leading innovative tech projects.
Drawing from an interdisciplinary background in Game Design, Comp Sci, AI, and DS, I am eager to bridge these domains to drive innovation and foster collaborations with industry peers.

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Education

Sep 2021 - June 2023

M.S., Computer Science and Engineering

Santa Clara University

Courses taken: Machine Learning, Algorithms, Operating System, Distributed System, Computer Network, Computer Architecture, ...

Sep 2017 - May 2021

B.S., Computer Sciences

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Courses taken: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Database Management Systems, Operating System, Building User Interfaces Project Management, Computer Graphic, Cryptography, Machine Organization and Programming, Computer Engineering, ...

Research Experience

Jan 2022 - June 2022

Independent Researcher

Independent Research Supported by Professor Zhiqiang Tao | Santa Clara University

- Design a visual understanding model based on CNN and develop a task-independent Meta Learning algorithm that automatically learns neural architectures for Few-Shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS)and weights of new tasks.
- Research on Meta Learning and NAS, run the designed model on Few-Shot Image Classification benchmarks such as Omniglot and miniImageNet, gather data, and write research paper.
- Improve the algorithm and paper based on feedbacks from weekly discussions with the advisor.

Sep 2020 - May 2022

Researcher & Developer

Connected and Automated Vehicle & Highway(CAVH) Research Group Led by Professor Ran Bin | University of Wisconsin-Madison

- Designed and implemented a trajectory prediction Machine Learning model with a team based on Lyft's extensive dataset and l5kit.
- Researched on trajectory prediction models such as CoverNet, MultiPath, and Multi-agent trajectory forecasting technique to improve our algorithm’s prediction accuracy.
- Tested the designed algorithm in CARLA on simulated autonomous driving vehicles under near-real-life street conditions for trajectory predictions.
- Wrote weekly research reports and demonstrated prediction results for a research group over 30 people.
- Competed in the Lyft Motion Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles Kaggle competition with the team.

Aug 2019 - present

Remote Researcher & Developer | Duke Kunshan University

Environment Economics Research Group Led by Professor Junjie Zhang | Madison, WI

- Design two web applications for the ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) team. The first is a web application based on a flexible React.js framework that enables users to retrieve the live ESG ratings and rankings for their own companies from three major ESG rating agencies databases and simulate their rate by customizing weights of a classic ESG rating model.
- The other application retrieves data from the three major ESG rating agencies’ databases, enabling users to search and compare trends of the various companies’ average stock price within a particular industry or at a certain rating level in the past five years.
- Assist the AQI (air quality index) team's project and develop a questionnaire application based on WeChat applet, enabling over 400 research subjects in four groups (three experimental groups and one control group) to answer questions simultaneously. These questions are randomly select questions from a database based on answerers’ group.

Professional Experience

Feb 2022 - June 2022

Full-stack Developer

Santa Clara University Frugal Innovation Hub | San Clara, CA

- Design and implement a frugal and user-friendly full-stack web application with React, Bootstrap, Spring Boot, MongoDB, GitLab CI/CD pipeline, and AWS, which helps current and future Costa Rica refugees to learn migratory regularizations and rights, as well to prepare for naturalization exams.
- Improve user experience and implement new features based on feedback and requirements from Costa Rica NGO and government during weekly meetings.

Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

Computer Vision & deep learning Intern

uSens Inc. | San Jose, CA

- Designed a safe driving detector with team, which analyzes real-time streaming videos and detects if the driver is smoking, using a cellphone, or driving without a seat belt based on face detection and gesture analysis techniques.
- Developed the safe driving detector using Python based on OpenCV, TensorFlow, and NumPy, and trained by a dataset with over 102k images and videos retrieved from related websites using Python scripts.

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

Front-End Engineer Intern

Visionary Intelligence (Beijing) LLC. | Beijing, China

- Designed and built a human-computer interaction (HCI) website, with HTML5 and JavaScript, using tomcat and apache, to help users create, retrieve, update, delete (CRUD) test case data, in order to train an AI customer service system.
- Designed and implemented API layer interface connecting back-end and front-end.
- Improved front-end interface and back-end functions according to users’ feedback.

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

Software Engineer Intern

Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd. | Beijing, China

- Developed and edited SDK with C and Java for Azure products including Azure IoT and Azure IoT Edge.
- Learned and presented Azure Stack and Azure Cloud Technology to other departments.
- Tested algorithm modules for machine learning of facial recognition and detectors for mechanical components.

Jan 2018 - May 2019

Part-time Developer

Fundamental Industry Center, Tsinghua University | Beijing, China

- Developed Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) Industrial Application with JavaScript based on Microsoft HoloLens and PTC ThingWorx Studio platform for the McKinsey&Company's new program on Augmented Reality on the Internet of thing.
- Connected with PTC ThingWorx Studio and update and demonstrated AR and MR product on production lines in real factories with IoT technology.

Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

Vice general manager assistant

Beijing Guorenbao Technology Co., Ltd. | Beijing, China

- Connected with foreign clients from countries such as United States, India, and Luxembourg.
- Sought potential cooperative companies and private banks.
- Promoted FinTech products, services, and resources for companies planning to shift their business online.

Project Experience

Jan 2022 - Present

Mirroreal

WebGPU, BABYLON.js, React, MongoDB, Agora, WebSocket, Colyseus

- Manage a team of 20 to design and develop a 3D Metaverse social infrastructure using Web Assembly and WebGPU engine in BABYLON.js as frontend, Agora as live stream feature, WebSocket and Colyseus as backend, MongoDB and Tencent Cloud as database and server.
- Research and implement web applications with cutting-edge technology of WebGPU to maximize 3D graphic performance on mobile platforms.

Nov 2020

DialogFlow Shop Assistant

React, DialogFlow, Google Cloud Services

- Designed and implemented conversational agent that assist users with their shopping experience through connecting DialogFlow with webhook that connects to the web API.

View the demo here
Oct 2020

React Native Fitness Mobile App

React Native, React-Redux, ReactNavigation, Async-Storage

- Designed and implemented a mobile application that allows users to achieve their fitness goals using React Native.
- Designed UI and UX through paper, static, and interactive prototyping using Adobe XD.
- Implemented accessible features that enables ease of use for people with visual impairment.

View the design process here
September 2020

Course Navigator

HTML, CSS, React.js, React-Redux

- Designed and implemented a course enrollment web application with an effective course recommendation system based on React.js.
- Designed UI components through examining designing principles.
- Enhanced user experience and usability through heuristic evaluation.

Feb 2020 - May 2020

Data Dashboard& Image Annotation, ML Integrated Project

HTML, CSS, React.js, MongoDB

- Designed and implemented a data-visualization and image annotation web application based on React framework based on React.js and MongoDB.
- Enabled users to present large amount of data in various kinds of charts and graphs, also allowing users to annotate image of their choice with polygon and text attributes, to feed their Machine Learning projects as image training data.

Oct 2019 - Dec 2019

AI-Handwriting Reader Project

Java, JavaFX

- Designed and implemented a 2-layer, feed-forward neural network and trains it by using the back-propagation algorithm with the ReLU and Softmax activation functions to read users' handwriting.

Oct 2018 - Dec 2018

Food Query and Meal Plan Project

Java, JavaFX

- Designed and implemented a GUI to help users plan their meal based on the different nutrient information of the various type of food on the food list on the UI.
- Enabled users to examine food nutrient, total meal nutrient, and add customized food to database.

Contact Me

Location

Bay Area, CA

Contact Number

+1 608 960 1663

Email Address

li_jh@yahoo.com