Joe (Yuzhu) Zhang

Email: yuzhuz@cs.cmu.edu
Tel: 408-610-0380

I am currently a CMU master student in the Language Technologies Institute, majoring in Intelligence Information System. I am interested in machine learning and information retrieval. Now I am looking for a summer internship in 2016. Work for fun!

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Master Candidate in
Intelligence Information System
Language Technologies Insititute
School of Computer Science

Aug 2015 - Dec 2016

  • Machine Learning
  • Cloud Computing
  • Search Engine
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    University of Wisconsin Madison

    Academic exchange in the
    Department of Mathematics &
    Department of Computer Science

    Aug 2013 - Dec 2013

  • Data Structure
  • Stochastic Process
  • Complex Analysis
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    City University of Hong Kong

    B.S. (Hons) in
    Computing Mathematics &
    Minor in
    Computer Science

    Aug 2011 - May 2015

  • Intro to Data Mining
  • Software Design
  • Design and analysis of Algorithm
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    Skills

    Mathematics

    Probabilities & Statistics
    Probability Distributions Bayesian Inference Hypothesis Testing
    Stochastic Process
    Discrete Markov Chain Continuous Markov Chain Poisson processes Renewal processes
    Data Mining
    Decision Tree k-means Hierarchical Clustering Neural Network Data Visualization

    Computer Science

    Fundamentals
    Data Structures Algorithms Design Patterns Operating Systems Database System
    Programming Languages
    VBA C++ Java MATLAB R SQL LaTex HTML5 CSS3 javascript SAS
    Languages
    English Mandarin Cantonese

    Experiences

    Internship

    Beijing Genomic Institute
    RNA Regulation Network Construction
    May.2013-Aug.2013
    • Process data of human RNA expression from MAQC( MicroArray Quality Control ) in a predefined format
    • Implement the algorithms on mutual information , direct information under Gaussian Mixture model in C++
    • mprove the computation efficiency by 50% faster with GNU Scientific Library C++ API in Linux

    Projects

    Sep.2014-May.2015
    Kernel Based Principal Component Analysis
    • Deduce the rationale of kernel method , analyze convergence , and implement methods in MATLAB
    • Compare and analyze the performance of parameterized polynomial and Gaussian kernel functions
    • Employ the kernel PCA (the Bag of Words model) on text to reduce data dimensionality
    Jan.2014-March.2015
    Brownian Motion in Stock Price Simulation
    • Simulate the behavior of the stock price with Random walk and Geometrical Brownian Motion in VBA
    • Analyze the volatility parameters and estimate the confidence interval in Geometrical Brownian Motion
    • Examine the short term and long term prediction of stock price data