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Building planet scale data streaming infrastructure

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Courses

  • Advanced Operating Systems and Distributed Systems

    15-712

  • Advanced Storage Systems

    15-746

  • Algorithms

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  • Algorithms and Advanced Data structures

    15-650

  • Cloud Computing

    15-619

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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  • Data Structures

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  • Distributed Systems

    15-640

  • Fundamentals of Computer Networks

    14-740

  • Independent Study(topic: File Systems)

    14-708

  • Introduction to Computer Systems

    15-513

  • Introduction to Embeded Systems

    14-642

  • Machine Learning

    10-601

  • Machine Learning and Data Mining

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  • Principles and Implementation of Operating Systems

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  • Principles of Database

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  • Search Engine

    11-642

  • Web Development

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Projects

  • Twitter Analytics Web Service on the Cloud

    - Ranked 3rd(3/78) on the Live Test Performance Competition.
    - Designed and implemented both the frontend and the backend system for tweets analytics on AWS.
    - Parsed 1TB tweet data by MapReduce ETL on AWS Elastic MapReduce.
    - Stored the data into both HBase and MySQL backends, comparing their performance on different tasks.
    - Implemented frontend web servers to communicate with the backend databases, using Vert.x.
    Keywords: Java, MapReduce, Web Server, MySQL, HBase

    Other creators
  • Text-based Search Engine

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    - Implemented the a text-based search engine with Lucene 4.3.0 APIs.
    - Implemented exact-match retrieval model (Ranked Boolean) and best-match retrieval model (BM25, Indri).
    - Introduced pseudo relevance feedback into the system.
    - Applied machine learning approach to implement feature-based search.

Honors & Awards

  • Honorable Mentions

    COMAP's Mathematical Contest in Modeling

    Designed a coach assessment and recommendation system.

  • Sun Yat-sen University Scholarship

    Sun Yat-sen University

    Consecutively received Sun Yat-sen University Scholarship for three times from 2012 to 2014.

Languages

  • English

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  • Chinese

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  • Cantonese

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Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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