Shangyu Lai
Double major in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Double major in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Moderating the section of teaching programming for mathematics projects . Assisting students to understand algorithms, to write pseudo code, to read documentation, and to search relevant information.
Utilizing a famous face recognition project, insightface, to authenticate users. Integrating API for easy adoption. Designed an API for easily adding/taking pictures and verifying user identity. Discovered bugs of the pytorch implementation of insightface. Contributed to the source code. Here is my fork. Creating a demo site of the system.
Used python, pandas, and numpy to analyze the data of Covid‑19 and related policy. Visualized data using plots and animation with geographical data. Full report.
Developed an Alexa skill called Professor Rating, which helps student know the professors they want to know. Utilized API of Alexa as well as AWS lambda. Some functions of the Alexa skills, such as that grabbing information from the internet is run by AWS lambda. Scraping data from multiple sites to get average professors rating and related comments. Tidied the data and write API for easy gathering information so that users can know the rating and comments from other students who took the professors’ course. Available in Alexa store.
Skillfully implied multiple state‑of‑the‑art methods to recognize hybrid and overlapped strings. Designed the semi‑supervised learning module. Applied in a project for a education company to automatically grade test paper.