About me
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Purdue University, advised by Dr. Ming Yin. My current research involves the areas of applied machine learning, crowdsourcing, and human-computer interaction. I designed and developed applications to 1) improve crowd workers' existing skills by peer learning, and 2) providing a more transparent environment for crowd workers.Prior to Purdue, I worked in a technology company as an Android developer. I hold a Master of Computer Science from West Virginia University, and a Bachelor of Management in information Management from National Central University in Taiwan.
News
- Awarded DIS 2020 Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews
- Our work on predicting the hourly wage of crowdsourcing tasks got Best Poster Honourable Mention in the Web Conference 2019 (WWW'19). [link]
- Awarded funding from Mousebelt University to research on solving the blockchain oracle problem. [link]
- Awarded travel grants from HCOMP 2018 to participate in the Doctoral Consortium and to present my work on how to improve existing crowdsourcing work environments.
Education
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
2020 - 2024 (Expected)
Ph.D. in Computer Science
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
2016 - 2018
M.S. in Computer Science
National Central University
Taoyuan City, Taiwan
2008 - 2012
B.B.A in Infomation management
Experience
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Graduate Teaching Assistant
2020 - current
- Lead two undergraduate teaching assistants to propose and develop class projects by Java and JUnit for class CS251: Data Structures and Algorithms.
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Graduate Teaching Assistant
2019
- Assisted faculty members with classroom instruction material, exams for CS453: Data and Computer Communications.
- Supervised student examinations and graded work submissions for CS 453: Data and Computer Communications and CS 220: Discrete Mathematics.
Covoir
Cofounder
2019
- Lead team to design and build Blockchain oracle service which provides trustworthy off-chain data to the smart contracts on blockchains in real-time through crowdsourcing and machine learning methods.
- Write a white paper and design the business model of our Oracle service.
- Awarded funding from MouseBelt Blockchain Accelerator pitch competition, standing out from 60 projects.
ACM WVU Student Chapter
Morgantown, WV
WebMaster
2018-2019
- Designed and Maintained the official website for the organization.
- Organized and gave a speech in a workshop to teach participants how to make their first Android application.
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Graduate Research Assistant
2017 - 2019
- Develop a budget supervision system through blockchain technology to encourage citizens involving in community development with local government. [News]
- Propose recommendations to Blockchain Advisory Board, which belonged to Mexico Presidency, for building a smart tender system. [News]
- Design and implement a chrome plugin to train crowd workers to speed 31.6% up to their work.[News]
- Interview Latin American users and design the prototype of mobile remittance applications which utilizes cryptocurrency transfer to reduce international transaction fee.
- Established an exchange rate calculator website to help immigrants find out real exchange rates from different companies.
- Apply IRB expedited protocols for human subject research.
- Paper peer review for the journal: Big Data, and conferences: IUI, CSCW, CHI.
Mitake
Taipei, Taiwan
Software Engineer (Android)
2014 - 2015
- Programmed and maintained stock ordering applications for 8 different stockbrokers on Android phones and tablets by using java and Android SDK.
- Troubleshot user's technology problems and existed bugs on published stock ordering applications.
- Overhauled the old stock ordering applications to enhance the code's efficiency and code readability, reducing the bug happen rates which made by other programmers.
- Collaborated with product management department to diagnose and evaluate customers' requirements and the applications download amount exceeds 300,000 times.
Publications
Already published or accepted by journals, conferences, or conference posters.
