Sim Profile

Software Engineer (Google)

• Developed new Gmail material design UI such as toolbar buttons, smart mail buttons, compose contact chips.
• Developed new features with high accessibility for new Gmail.
• Technologies used: HTML, CSS, ClosureJS.

Software Engineer (Yahoo!)

• Maintained and developed new features for Yahoo Messenger on the web platform.
• Researched and developed new messenger apps to compete with other messenger apps in the market.
• Technologies used: HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, ReactJS, NodeJS, Flux design pattern, Github.

Software Engineer Intern (Microsoft)

• Developed new feature called Notebook Suggestions for Microsoft OneNote app which display a dialog that shows a list of notebooks of interest to suggest to users.
• Built the feature that satisfied all the requirement for Accessibility (RTL language, Voice Over, for colorblind people, etc). Participated in code reviews for other features in the team.
• Technologies used: Objective-C (Manual Retain-Release), Xcode, Source Depot, CodeFlow.

Data Scientist Intern (ADP)

• Collaborated in a team with 4 other interns to build probabilistic and predicting models to categorize jobs and predict the job's hotness.
• Technologies used: MySQL, Amazon’s EC2, SSL connection, iPython, PyMC (Statistical package for Data Scientist), Unittest (a python package for unit test).

Graduate Teaching Assistant at Georgia Tech

• TA for CS 4510 (Algorithms and Complexity), which is the senior level required course for AI/Machine Learning thread undergrad students to graduate.
• Graded homework, exams; held office hours; proctored exams.

Research Assistant (Computer Vision Lab at Catholic University of America)

• Proposed a new algorithm to find matching points between two 2D images of an object. This new algorithm will give more matching points with high accuracy, and thus create a smoother 3D image for the object.
• The algorithm used the combination of both feature-based matching algorithm called SIFT (Scale- Invariant Feature Transform) and area-based matching algorithm called Image Alignment.
• Published 7 papers related to that research, which can be found here.

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