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General Information

Full Name Chengyu Zhang
Date of Birth 7th April 2001
Languages Chinese, English

Education

  • 2023 - 2024
    Master of Engineering
    Univeristy of California, Berkeley, CA
    • Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    • Major: Computer Science (Data Science and Systems)
  • 2019 - 2023
    Bachelor of Science (Honors)
    New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    • First Major: Data Science (Concentration in Artificial Intelligence)
    • Second Major: Interactive Media Arts
    • GPA: 3.969/4.0
  • 2012 - 2019
    High School
    Pudong Foreign Language School, Shanghai, China

Experience

  • 2023
    Autonomous Driving Algorithm Research Intern
    DiFint Technology
    • Develop perception algorithms on Linux GPU server in unsupervised monocular depth estimation, using multi-task training and unified backbones (ViT and CNNs), paper to be submitted to IEEE ICRA 2024.
    • Develop interactive SLAM datasets motion mask self-annotation based on Segment Anything and Gradio.
    • Research and present literature on autonomous driving and neuromorphic computing SOTA algorithms.
  • 2022 - 2023
    Artificial Intelligence Business Analyst
    Yitu Technology
    • Build knowledge graph using Relational Triple Extraction (BERT-CasRel); crawl, annotate, process raw news data, design and tune model, generate knowledge graph with Neo4j after word-sense disambiguation.
    • Collect, process, and analyze business data in facial recognition, AIGC and LLM products, assist in AI project management (including demand benchmarking, product positioning and technical preparation).
    • Research in and write AI national standards, such as trustworthy AI and unified interface of AI accelerator.
  • 2022 - 2023
    Computer Vision Research Assistant
    Professor Li Guo, NYU Shanghai
    • Conduct individual and teamed research in image/video semantic segmentation, object detection, meta/low-shot learning, transfer learning and image classification.
    • Design algorithms and run experiments on Linux GPU servers, do ablation studies and conclude to papers.
    • Research, conclude, share and experiments different SOTA algorithms in computer vision.
  • 2019 - 2023
    Lab Technician
    Interactive Media Arts, NYU Shanghai
    • Deploy MDM (Jamf) to manage MacOS and Windows computers, manage physical and virtual assets.
    • Provide audio-video system solution for classrooms, with layout design and equipment quotation.
    • Offer technical support to student and faculty, including MCUs, sensors, computers and audio-video devices.
    • Cooperate with the manager on IMA operation, including the hiring process and budget analysis using Excel.
  • 2021
    Research Assistant
    Human-Data Interaction Lab, NYU Abu Dhabi
    • Design and visualize database algorithms and data structures (including extendible hashing, linear hashing and bloom filter) in D3.js and JavaScript. Document and maintain the versions on shared GitHub repository

Activities

  • 2020 - 2021
    Member of the Media Committee
    OnCenturyAvenue, Shanghai, China
    • Help to maintain the website based on WordPress using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and basic PHP.
    • Design and publish news to websites and WeChat official account.
  • 2019
    Volunteer
    Weland, Beijing, China
    • Volunteered for 7 days in Beijing, helping staffs to manage the Youth Leadership Summer Camp. Tasks involving translation for classes, activity arrangement and management, blog posting.
  • 2019
    Assistant Director
    Weland, Beijing, China
    • Participated in WeMUN EXPO 2019 UNDP conference on the topic of accessible water as an Assistant Director, directing and recording the conference for 3 days and a half.

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Summa cum laude
    • Major Honor in Data Science
    • NYU Shanghai Excellence Award
    • Dean's List for Academic Year
  • 2022
    • Dean's List for Academic Year
    • 2022 Recognition Award
  • 2021
    • Dean's List for Academic Year
    • 2021 Recognition Award
  • 2020
    • Dean's List for Academic Year
    • 2020 Recognition Award
  • 2019
    • NYU Shanghai Global Elite Scholarship

Skills

  • Programming
    • Python, PyTorch, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C#, C++, R, React.js, d3.js, p5.js, MySQL, Swift, Julia.
  • Documenting
    • Microsoft Office suite, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Docs.
  • 3D modeling
    • Blender, Fusion360, Cinema 4D.
  • Design and Creation
    • Unity, Arduino, Adobe Audition, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator.
  • GRE
    • 166 (Verbal) + 170 (Quantitative) + 4.5 (Analytical Writing)
  • TOEFL
    • 116 (Reading: 30, Listening: 30, Speaking: 28, Writing: 28)

Other Interests

  • Guitar, Computer programming, Game ideas, Web development, Artificial intelligence, Hip hop music.