NLP Scientist/Engineer

Xing Jie (Jimmy) Zhong

*** * ****** **, ***** Bend, IN 46615 • 720-***-**** • *******@**.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/xing-jie-zhong

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

●Research experience in Natural Language Processing, with significant focus on Machine Translation, and extensive experience with transformer architecture.

●4 years of experience in designing and building machine learning algorithms and neural networks.

●8 years of software development experience. 4 years of non-academic, non-internship software development experience.

EDUCATION

University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN

M.S. Computer Science and Engineering expected December 2021

Advisor: David Chiang

GPA: 3.9/4.0

University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO

B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering May 2014

Minor: Computer Science

GPA: 3.8/4.0 (Magna Cum Laude)

SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Python (proficient), C++ (intermediate), C (intermediate), Java (intermediate), HTML (intermediate), Pascal (beginner)

Data Science/Machine Learning Packages: Pytorch (proficient), Tensorflow (proficient), MxNet (beginner), Keras (proficient), Numpy (intermediate), Opencv (intermediate), ScikitLearn (beginner)

Cloud Platforms: AWS (intermediate)

Languages: Mandarin (Bilingual biliterate)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Amazon Web Services - AI services New York, NY

Machine Translation Science Team - Applied Scientist Intern May 2021 – Aug 2021

●Explored state-of-the-art character based models and designed experiments. Curated and cleaned multi-domain datasets.

●Proposed simplification to existing MT pipeline inspired from CANINE. This resulted in ~2 bleu improvement on noisy datasets and 10 improvement on robustness.

●Set-up environments to train neural networks on the cloud using AWS.

University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN

Graduate Research Assistant, ND Artificial Intelligence Lab Aug 2018 – Present

●Researched, conceptualized and implemented various encoding methods to incorporate non-parallel data to existing machine translation neural networks.

●Developed dictionary attachment architecture to improve neural machine translation models.

●Programmed multi-task model to translate text and classify definitions simultaneously.

●Implemented transformers to predict word embeddings.

University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Correll Lab (Sep 2013 – Sep 2014)

●Prototyped soft robotics actuator and soft circuits using solid works and 3D printer.

●Produced first functional fully-embedded elastomer circuits.

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Microrobotics Lab (Jun 2012 – Aug 2012)

●Developed both mechanical and electrical design of a successful new robot prototype.

●Fabricated mechanical structures using a laser cutter and produced circuits using Etched Copper.

●Presented research results at the end of summer to the REU program and lab.

University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Programming Development Lab (Feb 2012 – May 2013)

●Ran test and collected data of a BLAS optimizing compiler.

●Wrote scripts to parse and process data files in Matlab.

●Compiled data into graphs of computer performance and noise.

●Attended SIAM CSE 2013 conference for poster presentation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Keysight Technologies Colorado Springs, CO

R&D Test Development Engineer Jun 2015 –Jul 2018

●Successfully ported legacy code from Pascal into Labview.

●Trained technicians to run, test, and debug various product issues.

●Collected and processed product and system data for the validation of new systems.

Level 3 Communications Lone Tree, CO

Java Middleware Developer Sept 2014 - Jun 2015

●Configured and upgraded existing software systems and implemented new features.

●Work within a large team using agile methods to deploy new software features and debug system-level issues.

PUBLICATIONS

Look it up: Bilingual and Monolingual dictionaries improve neural machine translation. https://www.statmt.org/wmt20/pdf/2020.wmt-1.65.pdf

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES

Vice President of Graduate Student Government – University of Notre Dame 2021 - 2022

Social Committee Chair for Graduate Student Government - University of Notre Dame 2020 - 2021

President of Eta Kappa Nu (EE honor society) - University of Colorado Boulder 2013 - 2014

Secretary of Tau Beta Pi (Engineering honor society) - University of Colorado Boulder 2011 – 2013

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