👋 Hello, This is Avery
💻 I'm a graduate student in Computer Science at UIUC, graduated from NYU Shanghai. Experienced in software development and AI technology. 🌐 Fluent in Mandarin and English. Official name Hangkai Qian.
Education Experience
New York University Shanghai
2019.08 ~ 2023.05Bachelor of Science in Computer ScienceMajor in Computer Science with a minor in Interactive Media Arts and Mathematics
- Major GPA: 3.86/4.0
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2024.01 ~ 2026.06Master of Computer ScienceSuccessfully enrolled and prepared to commence studies in Spring 2024
Work Experience
Orka Labs Inc.
2023.07 ~ PresentSoftware Development Intern (Full-stack)Maintained key functionalities of the official Orka official website v2; Refactored legacy codes; Managed Amazon Web Services; Optimized website load time.
- Maintained Key Functionalities: Ensured the stability of the official Orka website (v2), including the Hearing Aids Blog and Support Center pages, successfully resolving over 50 bugs and issues.
- Code Refactoring: Overhauled over 2400 lines of disorganized legacy code, implemented ESLint files and husky script for automated code inspections before code commit.
- Website Optimization: Managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) for website deployment and databases, such as optimized image responsiveness, enhancing website efficiency by reducing load time by 10%.
- AI in Customer Service: Single-handedly managed implementation of a GPT-3.5 turbo fine-tuned Customer Service Bot across the entire tech stack. Responsibilities included automatic dataset formation from a Lark workspace, OpenAI fine-tuning and embedding forming & matching, setting up a Django backend API server and Database on AWS, and developing a Next.js frontend interface.
Yonyou Software Co., Ltd.
2022.06 ~ 2022.08Software Development Intern (Front-end)Migrated and integrated CPAS 5.2 features into CPAS 6.0; Independently completed core project functionalities.
CPAS 6.0
2022.06 ~ 2022.08Participated in the development of CPAS 6.0, successfully identifying and rectifying logic bugs; Facilitated the migration of specific CPAS 5.2 functions to the CPAS 6.0 framework.- Migrated and integrated over 25 CPAS 5.2 powerful features into the new CPAS 6.0 system
- Independently completed core project functionalities including mini-programs (e.g., OCR/ASR recognition)
Skills
Languages
- Chinese Mandarin (native)
- English (fluent)
Web Development
- Proficient in JavaScript (React.js, Next.js, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB
- Experience with Three.js, p5.js, Socket.io, Tailwind.css, Python Flask, and MySQL
Artificial Intelligence
- Well-versed in various AI techniques, including computer vision and natural language processing
- Experience in text classification, word embeddings, sequence tagging, neural sequence modeling, Transformer, GPT, BERT, and other advanced NLP techniques
Other Skills
- Proficient in Python (including PyTorch, TensorFlow, matplotlib, pandas, etc.), C, Arduino (Java, and various Arduino modules), Git
Interests
- Piano
- Music
- Movies
- Gaming
Research Experience
The research focuses on Computer Music. We aim to transfer performance between different pianos to make them sound alike as much as possible.
- Developed a simulator algorithm using python
- Co-authored a paper titled 'Modeling Perceptual Loudness of Piano Tone'
From Anime to Reality: Transforming Anime Images into Real Images
2022.07 ~ 2022.12ResearcherOur goal is to transform animated images into realistic images, which has profound applications in areas such as game character modeling and generating real-life videos from cartoon drawings.
- Participated in the design and execution of a series of experiments
- Conducted in-depth studies on various generative models