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Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2016/09 – Present
  PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, minor in Cognitive Science
• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009/09 – 2012/01
  M.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE)
  - Thesis: A Multiagent Reasoning System for Commonsense Knowledge Integration [pdf]
  
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2011/09 – 2011/12
  Visiting Student in Media Arts and Sciences
• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2005/09 – 2009/06
  B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering, minor in Physics

Research Experience

• InfoLab, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, 2016/09 – Present
  Advisor: Dr. Boris Katz
  • Planning with Deep Compositional Models: Creating a motion planner which integrates sequence models and planning algorithms to extend robots’ capabilities to follow commands, plan in dynamic environments, and plan in the presence of other agents.
  • Inverse Planning and Tool Use: Developing experiments and computational models to understand how humans use tools and understand other agent’s actions and intents.
  • Interpreting and Explaining Model Decisions and Failures: Developing methods to interpret robots’ internal states. Creating a dataset of car accident scenes and building algorithms to explain a reinforcement learning agent’s decisions to correct these accidents.
• Software Agent Group, MIT Media Lab, 2011/09 – 2011/12
  Advisor: Dr. Henry Lieberman
  • Language Explorer: Created a mobile language learning app that adapts to a learner's context and capability by leveraging ConceptNet and Foursquare to automatically arrange materials and generate dialogues.
  • ConceptNet 5: Participated in the early design and implementation of the multilingual knowledge base to integrate data from Chinese ConceptNet, ReVerb, and GoalNet.
• Intelligent Agents Lab, NTU CSIE, 2008/06 – 2012/01
  Advisor: Prof. Jane Yung-jen Hsu
  • Multi-agent Reasoning System: Built a multi-agent system to provide commonsense reasoning results from multiple knowledge bases for application developers to use.
  • Crowdsourcing of Chinese Commonsense Knowledge: Created human computation games on social platforms and designed analogical reasoning algorithms to build the largest Chinese commonsense knowledge base (over one million sentences) in the world. The collected data is contributed to MIT Open Mind Common Sense project.

Work Experience

• Teaching Assistant, Marine Biology Lab, Woods Hole, MA, 2017, 2018, 2019 August
  
  • Course: Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer Course
  • Taught Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning tutorials.
  • Supervised student projects, including human plan understanding, multi-agent communication and coordination, better tracing for bio-inspired drones, social interaction recognition from videos, and composition of policies to form complex behaviors.
• Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2018/09 – 2018/12
  
  • Course: Aspects of a Computational Theory of Intelligence
  • Reviewed, provided feedback, and graded student projects. Held weekly office hours to discuss and answer students’ questions.
• Software Engineer, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, 2012/10 – 2016/08
  
  • Tech Lead for Shop the Look feature, which integrates outfit search and visually similar items to Google search.
    - Posts on Google AdWords blog and TechCrunch.
  • Developed advanced shopping search features, including analysis and creation of various UIs, to better respond to shopping queries / intents on different platforms.
  • Developed machine learning algorithms and crowd-sourcing infrastructure to extract product attribute from image content and product metadata.
• Software Engineering Intern, Google Inc., Kirkland, WA, 2011/06 – 2011/08
  
  • Developed algorithms and pipeline to automatically build entity attribute comparison table for any entity using large-scale crawled web data.
  • Won Third Place in Google Kirkland intern project showcase among 20+ interns.
• Teaching Assistant, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2010/02 – 2011/05
  • Courses: Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Artificial Intelligence
  • Held weekly TA hours to discuss class, homework, and term projects with students.
  • In charge of both written and programming assignments for over 100 students.

Selected Projects

• ScienceVR: Science Experiments in VR, 2016/10 - Present
  Developing an environment that allows users to perform science experiments in virtual reality. With real-time physics simulation, users can interact with virtual magnets and coils and see the visualization of the simulated magnetic fields. (demo video, more on http://sciencevr.com)
  
  • Finalist of 2016 AT&T AR/VR Challenge.
  • Was invited to the VR Screening in Marche Du Film, Cannes Film Festival, in 2017.
  • Is funded by MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund.
• MovISee: Timeline-based Visualization with Body Movement, 2013/01 – Present
  Developing a digital platform that uses information from depth camera to create mixed reality for people to explore the selected digital files and transform their body movements to customized visual outputs. Demos available at http://movisee.com.
  
  • Was invited to exhibit at "The Lab Project" in Camden Arts Centre and Kingsgate Studio, London, in 2015.
  • Was invited to exhibit at "Manchester Science Festival", Manchester, UK, in 2016.
• Flora: Mobile Flower Image Recognition Service, 2010/04 – 2011/07
  Developed an iPhone app that recognizes flower photos taken by general public to provide information of flowers in 2010 Taipei International Flora Exposition (demo video).
  
  • Winner of 2010 Hinet Telesoft Competition and 8th YuShow Cup Creativity Award.

Honors and Awards

• Top 10%, ICFP Programming Contest, 2019
  
• CBMM Siemens Graduate Fellowship, Siemens Healthineers, 2018 [post]
  
• MIT Greater China Computer Science Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
  
• Finalist, AT&T AR/VR Challenge, 2016
  Invited to demo at 2017 AT&T developer summit in Las Vegas.
  - Project: Faraday's Lab [video]
• Best Master Thesis Award, Taiwanese Association of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI), 2012
  Awarded annually to three master students for Best Thesis in AI research among all universities in Taiwan.
• Irving T. Ho Memorial Scholarship, Irving T. Ho Memorial Foundation, 2011
  Awarded annually to one EE/CSIE graduate student with exceptional research performance who has been selected by NTU as an overseas exchange student.
• Third Place, Google Kirkland Intern Project Showcase, Google Inc., 2011
  Awarded to the top three intern projects among 20+ interns.
• Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Google Inc., 2011
  Awarded to female students with outstanding academic performance and leadership demonstration.
• Gold Prize, 8th YuShow Cup Creativity Award, Taiwan, 2011
  Awarded for Best Application in Technology and Design among 700+ projects across all universities.
  - Project: Lohas! Flora [video]
• First Place, 2010 Hinet Telsoft Competition - Flora Expo Application Track, Taiwan, 2010
  Awarded for Best Application of Technology in Flora Expo among 600+ teams.
  - Project: iPhone Flora [video]
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of CSIE, NTU, 2010
  Awarded to CSIE Teaching Assistants with highest ratings from students.

Leadership & Activities

• Mentor, MIT Summer Research Program for Brain and Cognitive Science, 2018/06 – 2018/08
• Mentor, MIT Undergraduate Women in EECS Buddy Program, 2018
• SPTV Chair, MIT Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence., 2017/06 – 2019/05
  • Developed and deployed features for Raspberry Pis across all floors in the building.
• Student, Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer Course, 2016/08/15 - 2016/09/05
• Participant & Google Interviewer, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 2015
• Website Developer, San Francisco Bay Area Taiwan UXD Gathering, 2014/10 – 2016/08
• Tech Intern Mentor & Interviewer, Google Inc., 2013/01 – 2016/09
  • Weekly career discussion with mentees; hosted 1 PhD and 6 undergraduate interns.
  • Conducted 100+ technical interviews to hire qualified engineers.
• Reviewer of ACM IUI (Intelligence User Interface) 2013, TAAI 2011, IJCAI 2019
• President, AIESEC (International Association of Students in Economics and Management) National Taiwan University Local Committee , 2007/07 – 2008/07
  • Initiated an overseas internship program based on social issues for NTU students.
  • Hosted a leadership development conference for 14 universities in Taiwan and Asia Pacific countries in June 2008.
  • Led more than 100 members to win the 2007-2008 Best Local Committee Award.

Skills

• Programming Languages: C/C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, C#
• Tools and Libraries: NLTK, OpenCV, OpenGL, Matlab, Robot Operating System, Processing, Unreal, Unity, Max/MSP
• Hardware Platforms: Kinect, Raspberry Pi, Arduino