YuDing Sun

yudingsun at gmail dot com

EDUCATION

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Dec 2017 (Expected)

M.S. in Computer Science

Coursework: Networks, Programming System Design, Algorithms, Image Processing, Advanced Mobile Devices and Game Consoles, AI, Database, Software Management and Economics

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, Jun 2015

B.S. in Optical Information Science, Rank 2/30, People Scholarship

Coursework: Matlab, C Language, Image Processing, Embedded System, FPGA & HDL

University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Aug 2013

Extension Certificate

WORK EXPERIENCE

SDE Intern, Amazon, Seattle, WA, May 2017 - Present

• Amazon Video Datalab
• Development about a command line tool to send events to AWS Kinesis

Data Engineer Intern, Data Application Lab, Los Angeles, CA, Nov 2016 - May 2017

• Quality assurance about a complex web systems with Jupyter Notebook as the core in the backend
• Python/django, mysql, docker swarm, jupyter notebook with customize hub(jupyterhub)
• Developed backend Python tester for codes submitted by users
• Teaching assistant for the Big Data Engineer training program
• Yelp data analysis and recommender system

Algorithm Engineer Intern, Freqty Optoelectronics Technology, China, Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

• Worked in a team responsible for the a design and verification of a 3D scanning product
• Designed algorithms (e.g., correlation matching) to improve the efficiency and accuracy of 3D scanning
• Evaluated test data of a test case and model performance and analyzed feature importance to identify top factors that influenced the results

PROJECTS

Real-time Financial Data Pipeline Framework, Aug 2017

• Client’s case, a U.S. based Fintech firm needs to develop a middleware lambda system between personal loan hub company and the banks
• The system pre-processes loan applications before sending to the bank, intelligently identifies applications’ quality and time sensitivity
• The system builds on lambda architecture. Batch aggregate none time-sensitive applications and use machine learning algorithms to analyze the data. Process urgent application in real-time and feedback the result to central data warehouse

Game Recommendation, March 2017

• Use AWS EC2 to build and config Spark operating environment
• Establish the game recommended system engine and training model
• In the user input game information after the relevant game recommended results
• Trello board review and discussion

Yelp data analysis and recommender system, Feb 2017

• Build project by standard ETL
• Implement MapReduce from java and pig/hive
• Restaurant review sentiment analysis
• Recommending system using collaborative filtering method
• Implemented UI with d3 visualization tool

Implementation of a Monolithic Kernel, Weenix | Operating Systems, USC Spring, 2017

• Worked in a team to implement Weenix OS, having non-preemptive monolithic kernel.
• Created a non-preemptive kernel on top of Weenix operating system.
• Implemented mutex, thread context switch and scheduling.
• Collaborated with others to implement virtual file system and virtual memory.
• Implemented thread creation, mutex for thread synchronization.
• Created several test cases to check the reliability of Process and File sub system.

Mobile Game – Augmented Reality Multiplayer iOS Game, Designer, May 2016 - Jul 2016

• Designed and developed an iOS game using Unity 3D
• Implemented augmented reality using Vuforia
• Assisted in the designing of multiplayer game
• Participated in the testing and quality assurance process for the game

Artificial Intelligence – Navigation System, Programmer, Aug 2016 - Sep 2016

• Parsed the data file of traffic information
• Developed a navigation system using related search algorithm(e.g. BFS, DFS, UCS and A*)

Database – Spatial Database System Design, Programmer, May 2016 - Jun 2016

• Stored spatial data related to distribution buildings in USC region
• Created and query spatial database with Oracle Express 11g and Google Earth

Networks – P2P Network System, Programmer, Mar 2016 - May 2016

• Developed a peer-to-peer system on a hybrid architecture of TCP and UDP sockets
• Implemented a server to return available time slots and process clients’ requests

Vision – Airplane Tracking System, Programmer, Mar 2014 - Jun 2014

• Solved problems of image recognition, target detection, location and tracking frame centroid
• Realized real-time steady tracking of moving airplane in series images

LANGUAGES

Java, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, C, C++, C#, JASON, MATLAB

SKILLS

Algorithm, Database, Machine Learning

TOOLS

Hadoop Ecosystem: Pig, Hive, Cloudera/Hortonworks Platform

AWS: EC2, S3, Kinesis

Git: GitHub, BitBucket

Game Engine: Unity3D, Cocos2D

Augmented Reality(Vuforia)