Raymond Cheng
RESUME
Professional ​
info​​
Second year undergraduate student studying Computer Science at HKUST. Aspired software engineer, passionate entrepreneur, and fashion enthusiast.
Skills
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Computer Vision
Data Processing and Analyses
Full-Stack Web Development
Android Development
Work​
experience​
CoFounder and CTO, Refibre
​Feb 2019 - present
​- Founded in 2019 in HKUST, Refibre alleviates the world’s clothing waste by creating an online clothes exchange platform, allowing users to trade in used clothes instead of buying new ones.
Machine Learning Engineer & Assistant Researcher, Dayta AI
​Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
- Designed a Simplified to Traditional Chinese Translator algorithm that proposes a sub-word segmentation model which relies on the two Chinese language models
- Achieved an overall translation accuracy of 99.6% which beats all of the top available models
- Paper accepted by NAACL SRW, top conference in NLP
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- Scraped over 100K articles from 5+ online HK news sources for training dataset
- Implemented algorithm that computes the similarity of any two articles using jieba tokenizer and Gensim
- Assisted in building a news paraphrasing NLP system using best-performing tokenization methods and neural networks
Software Engineer, Froshie
​Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
- Designed and developed a simple website for the startup that aims to create a centralized platform for
students applying Asian universities
- Implemented OCR technology to scan IB certificates
Languages
Python
Java
C++
HTML/CSS
Javascript
Arduino
Visual Basic
Frameworks & Tools
Python: Pytorch, Keras, Numpy, Pandas
Web Dev: Bootstrap, NodeJS, ExpressJS, ReactJS, MongoDB, ThreeJS, etc.
Android Dev: Android Studio
DevOps: Linux OS Shell, Git, Docker
Education
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
​Sep 2018 - present
​- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science
- One of the top university in the world, renowned for its education in engineering and business subjects.
California Institute of Technology, United States
Jan ​2016 - Feb 2016
- Learned about soil and water quality through practical experiments, e.g. spectroscopy, color vision and mixing, colorimeter, beer's law, dye content of beverages, concentrations of ammonia and iron in water, crystal growth and phase transitions, etc.
- Successfully built a powered kite out of woodboard and micro-controller that can be remotely controlled and fly stably against the wind.