Work Experiences

Education

• Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 2015-Present
  Ph. D. in Computer Science

• McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2011-2015
  B. Sc. (Hon.) Mathematics & Computer Science (Overall GPA: 3.99 / 4.00)

Research Experiences

• Stanford HCI Group
  Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, March 2016-Present
  Project: Speech Is 3x Faster than Typing for English and Mandarin Text Entry on Mobile Devices
  Advisor: Professor James Landay and Professor Jacob Wobbrock

Selected Honors and Rewards

• Enlight Foundation Engineering Fellowship
  Stanford University, 2015

• Cambridge Trust Scholarship (Declined)
  Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust, 2015

• Edward Rosenthall Memorial Prize in Mathematics
  McGill University, 2015

• First Class Honours in Mathematics and Computer Science
  McGill University, 2015

• ACM ICFP Student Research Competition First Place (Undergraduate)
  Association for Computing Machinery, 2014

• Sir Edward Beatty Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics
  McGill University, 2014

• John V. Galley Scholarship
  McGill University, 2014

• School of Computer Science Summer Research Award 
  Top 5 annual undergraduate research projects at McGill University
  School of Computer Science, McGill University, twice, 2013, 2014

• Science Undergraduate Research Award (SURA) 
  Summer research stipend
  McGill University, twice, 2013, 2014

• CRA-W Canadian Research Experiences for Undergraduates Award
  The Computer Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, twice, 2013, 2014

• Dean’s Honour List
  McGill University, four times, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

• William Moser Prize
  Highest score at McGill on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
  The Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, 2013

• Science Class of 1965 Scholarship 
  McGill University, 2013

• James McGill Scholarship
  Entrance scholarship
  McGill University, 2011

• Chinese National Mathematical Olympiad Second Prize in Senior Division
  Committee on the Chinese Mathematics Olympiad, Mathematical Association of China, 2010

• The 9th China Girls Math Olympiad (CGMO) Gold Medal
  International Olympiad-style mathematical competition for high school girls
  Mathematical Association of China, 2010

• Singapore International Mathematics Challenge Commendation Award
  International mathematical modeling competition
  The Singapore Ministry of Education, 2010

Extracurricular Activities

• Coordinator, Stanford Computer Science TGIF, Stanford, CA, United States, October 2015-Present
  Organise a series of social events for Stanford computer science graduate students every week.

• Public relations team member, Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States, 2015-2016
  Worked on building relationships with the Chinese media, overseeing content production for Stanford Chinese New Year Gala, and bringing in new business opportunities.

• Organising team member, PhD Pathways Conference, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, October 2015-February 2016
  In collaboration with BEAM, Stanford Career Education, we organised this day-long career education conference open to PhD students and Postdocs from all disciplines to inform and educate them about what types of career paths exist with a PhD degree. I was in charge of data science panel.

• Founder, McGill Computer Science Equity Reading Group, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2014-2015
  Founded an equity reading group and led engineering students to read and discuss articles regarding diversity and equity issues in a biweekly group meeting.

Volunteer Activities

• Student volunteer, 2016 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, CA, United States, May 7-12, 2016
  Conducted interviews with conference attendees and wrote up reports to identify new website features for SIGCHI’s reimplementation effort on its website and related software properties.

• Student volunteer, the 29th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Montreal, QC, Canada, December 7-12, 2015
  Volunteered for the coordination of the conference.

• Student volunteer, the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Austin, TX, United States, January 25-30, 2015
  Volunteered for the coordination of the conference.

• Student volunteer, the 30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Quebec City, QC, Canada, July 23-27, 2014
  Volunteered for the coordination of the conference.

• Anti-stigmatization of AIDS volunteer, Marie Stopes international China, Beijing, China, 2007-2010
  Led and participated in a variety of activities for anti-stigmatization of AIDS for three years.

• 2008 Sichuan earthquake volunteer, Beijing, China, 2008
  Volunteered to help show child survivors of 2008 Sichuan earthquake around 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and provide mental health peer support.

Relevant Courses

• Mathematics Courses
  Algebra, real analysis, graph theory and combinatorics, logic, probability, statistics, stochastic processes, matrix numerical analysis

• Computer Science Courses
  Data structures, algorithm design, software development, theory of computation, programming languages and paradigms, language-based security, operating systems, compiler design, artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, probabilistic graphical model, human-computer interaction, iPhone and iPad application programming

Skills

• Computer Languages
  Java, C/C++, SML, OCaml, Python, MATLAB, R, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Assembly, Shell Scripting, Swift, Objective-C

• Tools
  Xcode, Git, Emacs, , GUI programming, unit tests

• Languages
  Fluent English and Mandarin, conversational French