About Me
I am a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University studying Computer Networks and Mobility. I went to UC Irvine for undergrad, where I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. In the past few years, I have studied and practiced various areas in Computer Science and Software Engineering, such as Mobile Development, Web Development, Database Management, Big Data, Computer Vision and Machine Learining. In Summer 2020, I will be joining Hulu as a Software Engineering Intern, working on DevOps in the Networks team.
Education
As of June 2020, I am a Master's student at Carnegie Mellon University. I am expecting to graduate in May 2021.
Carnegie Mellon University: Aug 2019 - Present
Master of Science in Information Technology - Mobility
The MSIT-MOB degree is a bicoastal degree at the Information Networking Institute that requires us to study at CMU's Pittsburgh campus for the first year, and Silicon Valley's campus for the second year. It prepares us to be at the forefront of the mobility field with a multidisciplinary curriculum spanning topics in mobile applications, services, and devices.
- Expected Graduation: May 2021
- Core Courses: 15-513 Intro to Computer Systems, 14-740 Fundamentals of Computer Networks, 14-741 Intro to Information Security, 17-637 Web Development, 17-781 Mobile & IoT Services
- GPA: 3.56
University of California, Irvine: Sep 2015 - Mar 2019
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
During my studies at UCI, I mainly focused general topics in Computer Science. As a degree track preference, I dug a bit more into areas related to intelligent systems such as Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
- Core Courses: iOS Development, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Applied Probability and Statistics, Databases, Information Retrieval
- Major GPA: 3.73
Experiences
As of June 2020, I am working at Hulu as a Software Engineering Intern. My latest Industry experience was Software Engineering Intern at Xiaomi.
Software Engineering Intern: Jun 2020 - Present
Hulu
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hulu have shifted the internship program from a 12-week onsite summer program to an 8-week virtual program. Except the length, everything else remains the same for my internship, such as my team and responsibilities. My internship is scheduled to start on June 15th 2020.
- Location: The internship location was originally planned for the Santa Monica Headquarters. Since my internship is going virtual, I will be working remotely from my home in Santa Clara.
- Team:: I will be working on DevOps in the networks team. They build infrastructure and platforms that enable developers to build, automate, host and monitor their services in our data centers.
- Responsibilities:: As far as I know, for the first module of my internship, I will be building a CI/CD pipeline using Python.
Software Engineering Intern: May 2019 - Jul 2019
Xiaomi
I worked for the Big Data Team under Xiaomi Cloud Division as a Software Engineering Intern. During my 9 weeks at Xiaomi, I assited my team on processing and analyzing user activity data for 240+ million monthly active Xiaomi smartphone users, such as application usage data, user behavior data and advertisement exposure data. Some of my key contributions were:
- Utilized user profiles and activities to run Spark jobs that generate advertising targets for Xiaomi app store publishers.
- Collaborated with the advertising and business department to fit advertisement deploying schedules.
- Increased the advertisement view/click rates by up to 15% for several big-name applications.
For my internship, I used various Big Data technologies/tools such as Spark, Hadoop, SQL and Hive. My code was mainly written in Scala.
Lab Tutor: Mar 2016 - Jun 2018
UCI School of Information & Computer Sciences
Throughout the four years of my undergraduate career, I worked as a Lab Tutor under the School of Computer Science. I Taught 3 different levels of Python programming courses in 5 separate courses with 40+ students per course, which renders a total of 200+ students taught. I Received approval ratings above 93% in student evaluations for each course, and approvals from my professors as well. As a Lab Tutor, my main responsibilities are:
- Work alongside teaching assistants to teach students course materials and to help them understand lab assignments.
- Guide students on how to write sturctured & efficient code, and teach them debugging skills face-to-face.
- Design learning materials for professors' and tutors' reference in the future.
Courses Taught:
- UCI ICS-31: Introduction to Programming
- UCI ICS-32: Programming with Software Libraries
- UCI ICS-33: Introduction to Programming
Projects
Here are some of my highlighted projects that I have done in the past two years. GitHub links are available.
Quizhub: A Web Application for Live Classroom Quizzes
https://github.com/mochen1228/Quizhub
Quizhub is a game-based learning web application inspired by Kahoot!. The application provides instructors a way to create fun and competitive real-time quizzes for students to participate, which could help increase student engagement in classrooms. Unlike Kahoot!, Quizhub does not need a big screen to project questions, everything could be done with just a laptop or smartphone.
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Squad: An iOS Application Facilitating Group Event Planning
https://github.com/mochen1228/Squad
Squad is an iOS app that helps people plan events together, whether a group of friends wants to go to a concert, or coworkers want to organize a happy hour, Squad makes planning events easy. This app facilitates group event planning by providing an all-in-one platform for people to plan collaboratively, manage preference polling and provide user tracking.
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iHere: An iOS Application for Taking Classroom Attendance
https://github.com/mochen1228/iHere
iHere is an application that will make the process of taking class attendance easier. It allows instructors to make class sessions with a specified location and a secret code. For students to check in to the class, they have to be in the specified location and know the secret code. This will ensure that only people that are in class can use the check-in word to check in.
- Designed and developed a native Swift application that helps instructors to create lectures and manage attendance using device location proximity and passcode.
- Provided different versions for both student and instructor accounts. Used auto layout to support all iOS devices.
- Implemented the backend with Parse and deployed on Heroku. Utilized MapKit, UIKit and several other Cocoapods packages.
- Selected as the Best MapKit Implementation and the Best Utility App among all applications in the course.
Skills
As of June 2020, I am working at Hulu as a Software Engineering Intern. My latest Industry experience was Software Engineering Intern at Xiaomi.
Programming Languages
Python
Swift
JavaScript
Java
Scala
C
C++
MATLAB
Technologies - Web Development
Node.js
React.js
Express.js
Django
HTML5
CSS
Technologies - Back-end, Cloud & Database
Firebase
MongoDB
Parse
Heroku
Technologies - Data
Hadoop
Spark
SQL
Hive
Technologies - IDE
Xcode
PyCharm
Android Studio
