Angel (Xiaowen) Zhang

Yale University

Selected Coursework
Computability and Logic, Database Systems, Deep Learning Theory and Applications, Distributed Systems, Intelligent Robotics, Linear Models, Natural Language Processing, and Advanced Management of Software Development

The Cooper Union

Cumulative G.P.A: 3.81/4.0, Summa Cum Laude

Selected Coursework
Artificial Intelligence-IS, Computer Graphics, Computer Operating System, Software Eng & Large System Design, Eng & Entrepreneurship, and Eng Management

Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, Recording Secretary
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member
Dean's List, All Semesters
Full-tuition Scholarship, 2013-2017
William C. and Ester Hoffman Beller Prize, for merit in engineering studies

Lake Forest Academy

Cumulative G.P.A: 3.94

Cum Laude Society, the highest academic honor awarded, Member
LFA Varsity Swimming Team, Athlete(Girl Team) & Manager(Boy Team)
All-School Award: Scienc Department Award, 2013
All-School Award: Mathematics Department Award, 2012
2nd Place overall, ICTM State Math Contest, 2012
1st Place of 8-Person Junior/Senior Team, ICTM Regional Math Contest, 2012

MarketAxess

• Enhance and support API solutions and strategies to the MarketAxess e-Trading Platform fixed income instrumeents. Duties are performed using Oracle, Java, Gradle, Python, JMS Messaging, FIX Protocol to design a redundant, low latency, multi-threaded system.

• Projects include software development for handling the processing of Orders from external Order Management/Execution Management Systems, sending Post Trade Messages, Allocation services, Client and Dealer Trading APIs, Market Data Feeds, Regulatory Reporting services, Settlement services, and other internal monitoring.

• Work closely with Business Analysts, Quality Assurance, Customer Integration Teams discussing specifications, test plans, and customer setup. Collaborate with Production Support investigating and resolving issues which arise in the Production environment.

• Present technical walkthrough documentation describing work performed throughout each release cycle to various teams.

Artsify

• Designed and marketed a web service product, Artsify, which is an online fine arts marketplace that aims to simplify the art sale process. Created a NodeJS application based on Model-View-Controller(MVC) structure. Designed the User Interface in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Used PostgreSQL database to store and manage information about art, artists, users, and orders.

• Launched the minimum-viable-product(MVP) in May, and continued to maintain the website service and update the product features weekly.

• Delegated team to financial stability oversight, marketing campaign design, and software developments. Connected with potential influencers, suppliers, and clients. Conducted market researches, competitive analysis, and financial projections, tested business hypotheses, and quickly adapted feedbacks.

• Collaborated and performed pitch to prospective artists, potential investors, and startup coaches. One of four finalists in the national SASETank 2017 entrepreneurial competition, and will present in the SASE national conference in October.

Cooper Union

• Instructed students on using MATLAB, a leading computational mathematics platform for engineers and scientists; One-contact hour every week.

• Developed syllabus through discussions with the department Dean, prepared weekly presentations for a class of 15 students, and hosted office hours. Designed, assigned, and graded select problem sets throughout the course. Cooperated students’ feedbacks into course schedule.

Intel Corporation

• Collaborated with multi-company session for IoT Demo Preparation at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2015 San Francisco.

• Designed an architecture for Big Data system and provided platform solutions including hardware and software approaches to clients.

• Partnered with Intel internal software teams and provided support at the customer site.

• Co-inventor of new solution for real-time video distribution
Patent pending: Adaptive Workload Distribution for Network of Video Processors. Intel Corporation, Shanghai, China, 2015

INSIGMA Technology Co. Ltd.

• Customized the design of ARM cluster for the development of image processing softwaCustomized the design of ARM cluster for the development of image processing software under the supervision of the head of hardware department.

Kitty Or Doggo?

• Led a team of four, and implemented three different models as image classifiers to distinguish dogs and cat.

• Designed a simple convolutional neural network architecture with five layers as a baseline, then further expanded the depth of the network, and fine tuned learning rate, filter sizes, stride, dropout regularization rate to optimize resulting accuracies. Finally utilized transfer learning by adopting the pre-trained VGG16 network model and a two-step fine-tuning scheme to enhance the performance, and achieved the highest accuracy of 97.8%, being 3.897% higher than the average of publicly documented records.

Technical Design Documentation

NinjaBrite

• Organized a team of four, and created an online event management system, hosted by Heroku. Implemented a NodeJS application based on Model-View-Controller(MVC) architecture. Designed the interface in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Stored the user data in a PostgreSQL database.

• Continuously tested each release against automated tests along with SQL injections, CSRF, and XSS. Applied Google Analytics to conduct an A/B test and perform traffic analysis.

• Practiced SCRUM and Agile software process with effective use of Git for version control and TrelloBoard for managing product and sprint backlogs. Hosted weekly meetings for sprint planning and retrospective, and documented the progress as sprint reports.

Research Project:
Blockchain in Smart City

• Worked in a team of two, and deployed Blockchain on a peer-to-peer system in C++, considering a specific Smart City scenario, where hashed information of the image and video from surveillance cameras are managed and shared by multiple IoT nodes for decentralization and public auditing purposes.

• Created a real-time web monitoring application to visualize all the information contained in the Blockchian blocks.

Coopa: The MicroMouse

• Led a team of three, and designed the system architecture of a robot mouse, cooperating locomotion, sensing, control, and software subsystems so that the robot autonomously solves a 16-by-16 random maze in the Micromouse Competition hosted by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE).

• Invented a motion calibration algorithm in Arduino, and implemented a maze solving algorithm based on Flood Fill Algorithm.

• Generated documentations, created posters, developed presentations, prepared live demos for monthly school-wide panel critique.

Dynamic Environment Mapping

• Innovated an interactive environment mapping application, using JavaScript and WebGL, which illustrates surrounding scene and moving cubes reflected on the surface of an object. Researched and cooperated with a texture mapping technique, Skybox.

• Developed a power point and demo cases to show the challenges and the accomplishments of the final product to the class.

Rubik’s Cube

• Created an interactive Rubik's cube application using JavaScript and WebGL, and developed an algorithm to perform smooth animations when any user-specified planes is rotated in any directions, or when the cube is displayed from any desired angle.

Game Othello

• Produced a game-playing program, which plays Othello against users, based on the Minimax Search with Alpha-Beta Pruning Algorithm in Java.

• Designed a game GUI in java swing, indicating scores, a history log of both players’ moves, and next possible moves.

Neural Network

• Developed a training program of a neural network based on the Back-propagation Algorithm in C++.

• Created a testing program of the neural network

Set Game

• Designed an online version of card game SET, allowing users to customize game modes and to play against each other in real time.

• Led design of system architecture based on client-server model, constructed database in MySQL, implemented game website in JSP, and created game-login GUI in Java swing.

• Presented the final product to the classmates and obtained their feedbacks.

Network Simulator

• Designed a program that takes a description of an abstract network and simulates its operation.

• Implemented network components, including hosts, routers, and links, routing algorithm based on Dijkstra's algorithm, and traffic congestion algorithm based on transport layer protocols such TCP as and its variants.

Junior Electrical Engineering Projects

• Designed and built an audio amplifier using two common emitter voltage amplifiers, a Darlington pair current amplifier, and a Class AB push-pull output stage.

• Designed and built an op-amp using only discrete components; combined stages including a differential amplifier input stage, a voltage and current amplification stage, and a Class AB push-pull output stag.

Audio Amp Lab Report
Op-Amp Lab Report

C++ Projects

• Applied different data structures to further implement the following algorithm projects: Sorting Algorithms Optimization, Spelling Check Program, Dijkstra's Algorithm, and Dynamic Programming: Merges String Problem.

Quickpedia

• Simulated a startup and created a web service product, Quickipedia, which could facilitate classroom discussions through annotation of web articles with teacher supervision.

• Presented the product demo to the classmates and mentors and obtained their feedbacks.