YU-CHIA CHANG

 Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist | Data Analysis & Computer Vision.

  • 2+ years of hands-on experience of developing Deep Learning solutions in data analysis and computer vision.
  • Best paper award at ACM The 9th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, 2019.
  • Experience in participating in several projects, and developing software in Python & C++.
  • Professional and fluent English communication skills (5+ years international exchange experience).

  [email protected] |   Linkedin |   CV & Portfolio |   github |   Taiwan

Skills

Programming Language


  • Python
  • C/C++
  • Other: HTML, SQL

Deep Learning


  • Data Analysis, Mining
  • Object Detection, Tracking

Third-party Kit


  • Pytorch
  • Tensorflow
  • Other: Keras, Sci-kit, OpenCV

Data Computing


  • Spark
  • Hadoop
  • Other: Docker

Optimization Algorithm


  • Genetic Algorithm
  • Ant Colony Algorithm
  • Particle Swarm Optimization

Language


  • English: TOEIC 890
    (Fluent in oral and writing)
  • Japanese medium

Education

National Chung Hsing University

Master's degree | Computer Science and Engineering

Sep. 2018 - Sep. 2020

Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2020

Industry-academia Cooperation with SUNLIT Transportation CO., LTD. 

  1. Developed an AI system based on computer vision for detecting whether truckers are doing dangerous behavior by applying proposed methods in deep learning and computer vision.
  2. Trained YOLOv3 and LSTM tackling with spatio-temporal data and combined it with AdaBoost (Ensemble Learning). Increased the accuracy from 78.65% to 95.47 and saved 1/200 times from operating manually.

National Taichung University of Education

Bachelor's degree | Computer Science and Engineering

Sep. 2014 - Jun. 2018

Jun. 2017 - Sep. 2017

Software Engineering Intern at PRO WAVE CO., LTD.

  1. Developed a system by OpenCV using C++ to read video data from cameras on the street and highway to determine traffic jams and find available parking slots on streets.
  2. Discussed the solution with our team and learned image processing  independently.

Honors 

BEST PAPER AWARD

ACM The 9th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics

Jun. 2019

Best Paper Award

Scientific Paper Competition of College of Science at National Chung Hsing University

Dec. 2019

Student Ambassador from Taiwan

University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA & Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, USA

Aug. 2012

Projects

Analysis of searching for "NAIL HOUSE" from House Prices Data in Taichung, Taiwan

keywords: Data Mining, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, XGBoost

  1. Conducted data pre-processing to (1) exclude outliers (2) complete missing data (3) handle feature engineering
  2. Implemented machine learning methods (Random Forest and XGBoost) to predict the expected price of each house.

Sep. 2018 - Jan. 2019, Side Project

Kaggle practice of M5 Forecasting Analysis & Prediction

keywords: EDA, Time Series Forecasting, Machine Learning, LightGBM

  1. Executed data cleaning, exploratory data analysis based on different products and observation of relationships between columns.
  2. Executed feature extraction by referencing different rolling windows and finding the essential features.
  3. Build a sales prediction LightGBM models for 30 consecutive days and adjustment on hyper-parameters.

Apr. 2021 - present, Side Project

Word Cloud Visualization and Crowd Mining of Politicians in Taiwan

keywords: Crowd Mining, Web Crawler, Feature Extraction, Data Analysis

  1. Developed web crawler to fetch data at the PTT forum in Taiwan and organize crawed data by word segmentation tool "Jieba" in python.
  2. Extracted essential statistics of Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) to represent the occurring frequency associated with certain politicians in Taiwan.
  3. Analyzed crowd opinion on specific politicians in different forums by visualizing keywords in the word cloud. 

Apr. 2019 - Jul. 2019, Side Project

An Effective Smart Grid Management System based on Deep Learning and Metaheuristic Algorithm

keywords: Deep Learning, Smart Grid, Metaheuristic/Optimization Algorithm

  1. Conducted research on Smart Grid and formulated loss of all parameters in Smart Grid.
  2. Developed a management system by combining deep learning and metaheuristic algorithms to predict and analyze statistics collected from smart grid components. 

Sep 2019 - Sep 2020, Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan

Implementation of Object-based Video Synopsis Surveillance Application

keywords: Object Detection, Tracking, Video Summarization, Surveillance

  1. Implement an object-based generator to summarize videos and reduce the size of videos for surveillance.
  2. Integrate DeepSORT and YOLOv4 for multi-object tracking, and concatenate all objects which are pre-processed with background subtraction.

Apr. 2021 - May. 2021, Side Project

Implementation of K-means Clustering on Boston Housing data using standalone Spark

keywords: Spark, Clustering Algorithm

  1. Conducted MapReduce operation on k-means algorithm.
  2. Analyzed clustering result of Boston Housing data (a public dataset from Kaggle).

Jan. 2020 - Apr. 2020, Side Project

Implementation of On-sale Search by Web Crawler on LineBot

keywords: LineBot, Web Crawler

  1. Developed web crawler in python to fetch information about on-sale products from PTT and Facebook.
  2. Implemented a Line Bot to automatically post messages to Line according to users' input.

Apr. 2019 - Jul. 2019, Side Project

AUGANGIO: An Angiography Training Simulator based on Augmented Reality 

keywords: Augmented Reality, IoT, Biomedical Engineering, C language, Java

  1. Developed an Angiography simulator by Augmented Reality which can help doctors practice by operating on an imitated model and viewing the results on AR devices.
  2. Built the system by embedded Arduino (C language) and showed the position of the guide wire on the Android app via augmented reality (Java using Vuforia SDK).                        
  3. Interdisciplinary cooperation with people from different research fields (Biomedical, Engineer, Design, Business). 
Oct 2016 - July 2017, Department of Biomedical Engineering of National Chen Kung University 

Full stack development at National Taichung University of Education

keywords: HTML, PHP, Back-end, MySQL

  1. Developed website and database for the Computer Center of college and Center of Teaching Development using HTML, Javascript, Php, SQL at National Taichung University of Education.
  2. Cooperated with students from the department of art to design UI/UX.

Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2018, Side Project

Global Participation

International Video Conference Education Team in Taiwan

  1. Launched 200+ video conference with international students and organizations.
  2. English presentation and different discussion topics, including culture exchange, summit discussion, model UN, mock trial, etc.
  3. Headed several teams where members consist of students from different countries to prepare for panel discussion.
  4. Broadened global vision by participating in projects such as the robot contest, Rainforest conservation, UNCCC summit.

Jun 2011 - present

Student ambassador at Leadership Academy at University of Pennsylvania

  1. Representative of Taiwan to participate in the campaign.
  2. Created & brainstormed different ideas to help childhood cancer and enlarge the charity funds.
  3. Coordinated with foreign students to finish projects during the academy.

Aug. 2012 - Sep. 2012

International Conference Attendance Experience

  1. Oral Presentation: ACM The 9th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, Seoul, South Korea, Jun. 2019.
  2. Master of Ceremony: International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Its Emerging Applications, Tainan, Taiwan, Sep. 2019 

Jun. 2019 - Sep. 2019

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