Yuxiang Wang

Yuxiang Wang

Graduate student of Data Science

Johns Hopkins University

Biography

Yuxiang Wang graduated from Southwest University (China) with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and technology. During the undergraduate study period, he had good grades, won many awards in different competitions and obtained scholarships for three times. Currently he studies as a graduate student of data science at Johns Hopkins University.

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Interests
  • Data Analysis
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Statistics and Optimization
Education

  • MEng in Data Science, 2020-2022

    Johns Hopkins University(US)

  • BSc in Computer Science and Technology, 2016-2020

    Southwest University(China)

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Internship
Oracle Chengdu Branch
Jul 2019 – Aug 2019 Chengdu, China
  • Studied the processing methods ADW through sql developer and data visualization of big data Oracle DV
  • Participated in the data analysis of the road traffic accident details in a certain area in 2018 and the registration data analysis of a certain hospital in Chengdu
  • Completed the above two projects and made the analysis reports for the relevant companies
 
 
 
 
 
University-sponsored Scholarly Exchange Student
Auckland University
Aug 2018 – Sep 2018 Auckland, New Zealand
  • Studied some CS-related courses in the Department of Computer and Statistics of the University of Auckland, including R language data analysis, data mining
  • Participated in the project team about handwritten digit recognition (won the honor of the excellent team)
  • Used three methods to solve related problems, which were linear fitting, logistic regression and kernel regression by Rlanguage platform with high prediction accuracy
 
 
 
 
 
Internship
Chengdu Calabar Information Technology Corp., Ltd.
Jul 2018 – Aug 2018 Chengdu, China
  • Studied related technologies of natural language processing in the development department
  • Participated in the establishment of the knowledge graph system framework in the department
 
 
 
 
 
Undergraduate Campus Involvement
Southwest University
Sep 2016 – Jun 2018 Chongqing, China
  • Director and Core Member, Students’ Association Union of SWU
  • Core Member, Students Union of SWU

Awards

Outstanding Graduate of Southwest University
Southwest University, China Jun 2020
Study on Heat Transfer Model of Multilayer Insulation Clothing
China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Sep 2019
Provincial 2nd Prize in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling
Jianzhisheng College Student Part-time Job System
Chongqing Computer Society Jun 2018 – Jul 2018
Won 2nd Prize in Chongqing Database Programming Competition
Intelligent Lighting——Automatic Coloring and Restoration System for Old Photos
Chongqing Higher Education Association Mar 2018 – May 2018
Won 1st Prize of Chongqing Province in China National College Student Innovation, Originality and Entrepreneurship Challenge
The First Class Scholarship of SWU for 2 years
Southwest University, China Sep 2017 – Sep 2019
The Second Class Scholarship of SWU
Southwest University, China Sep 2016 – Sep 2017

Projects

Named Entity Recognition on IEEE Xplore scholarly documents
IEEE and JHU Jun 2021 – Aug 2021
Specialized in abstracts within sub-fields of the CS field and designed our own annotation scheme; Pre-trained BERT-based model using IEEE corpus and explored other deep learning models, for example, XLNET and GPT-3 to further improve the performance of existing models; Explored the CRF task as a sub-project using the SetSimilarity plus Bert-based embedding approach
COVID-19 Fake News Detection Using BERT
Deep Learning course at JHU Apr 2021 – May 2021
Fine-tuned the pre-trained BERT model and add additional layers to evaluate the performance of detection; Did keywords evaluation through our best model
Detector of offensive language and hate speech for tweet content
Machine Learning course at JHU Nov 2020 – Dec 2020
Used NLP related method like word2vec, skip-gram, LSTM to multi-classify tweet content
Centerline Extraction in Tubular Structure using a Clustering-based Approach
Data Science course at JHU Nov 2020 – Dec 2020
Made a series of improvements for existing k-means algorithm such as coordinate transormation to help us find the center line of a given aorta
LMS Prototype of Student Performance Prediction Model
NLP Lab at SWU, Supervisor: Li Li Sep 2018 – Jan 2019
Applied the ability of processing and analyzing big data (included data mining, multiple linear regression and correlation analysis, etc.) to analyze students’ scores, class times and failure rates for a university in Chongqing
Intelligent Lighting——Automatic Coloring and Restoration System for Old Photos
NLP Lab at SWU, Supervisor: Li Li Mar 2018 – May 2018
Made the implementation of the system based on CNN technology with certain commercial value
Search Extension Project
NLP Lab at SWU Aug 2017 – Jan 2018
Individual work. Used python crawler technology and NLP related methods (word segmentation, doc2vec, etc.) to process text information

Publications

COVID-19 Fake News Detection Using Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Based Models
ICONIP 2021 Conference Jun 2021
Author: Yuxiang Wang; Yongheng Zhang; Xuebo Li; Xinyao Yu(submitted)
Prediction of the COVID-19 Infectivity and the Sustainable Impact on Public Health under Deep Learning Algorithm
Soft Computing(SOCO) Apr 2021
Author: Weiwei Wang; Jinghui Cai; Jiali Xu; Yuxiang Wang; Yulin Zou (released on SCI)
Academic Supervision and Risk Assessment Based on Moodle LMS Data
IEEE ICRIS International Conference Jun 2019
Author: Yuxiang Wang (released on EI)
Prediction of PM2.5 Concentration in Chengdu Based on Improved BP Neural Network
ICMMCT 2019 International Conference May 2019
Author: Yuxiang Wang
Appearance Invention Patent for Computer Monitor
National Intellectual Property Administration, PRC Apr 2019
Author: Yuxiang Wang, Patent Number: 201930165163.9
Jianzhisheng College Student Part-time Job System V1.0
National Copyright Administration, PRC Feb 2019
Software Copyright, Author: Yuxiang Wang, Zhengtong Tan, Zipeng Li
Development of Machine Dictionary for Natural language Processing
China Computer & Communication Feb 2019
Author: Yuxiang Wang
Handwriting Numeral Recognition Based on R Language
PC Fan Aug 2018
Author: Yuxiang Wang
Student self-management system V1.0
National Copyright Administration, PRC Nov 2017
Software Copyright, Author: Yuxiang Wang

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