Education
Ph.D. Computer Science
M.S. Information Technology
B.S. Management
Publications
A Part-to-Whole Circular Cell Explorer
IEEE VIS 2024 BioMed Challenge
Zhao S, Marai GE. A Part-to-Whole Circular Cell Explorer. ArXiv [Preprint]. 2024 Oct 14:arXiv:2410.10936v1. PMID: 39483344; PMCID: PMC11527092.Research
University of Illinois at Chicago - Research Assistant
August 2024 - Present
- Conducted research focused on visual data science in oncology, neurosurgery, genomics and spatial transcriptomics, contributing to the advancement of the field.
- Designed, prototyped, developed, and evaluated visual analytics systems in collaboration with various domain experts, driving innovation and application in real-world scenarios.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Research Assistant
August 2022 - December 2022
- Enhanced project compatibility by addressing compatibility errors in Expokits, React-Natives, Cocoapods, Poetry, etc., resulting in a 50% improvement. Thorough documentation is provided for future reference.
- Implemented a robust and efficient multi-device, multi-account corrosion data transfer and management function by QR-Code on iOS devices.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Research Assistant
Febrary 2022 - May 2022
- Removed unrelated information like URLs, images, etc. before analysis, and used Social Network Analysis(SNA)to detect communities within the network. Got metrics for each network by using NodeXL and used the Lovainal algorithm to identify subsets of participants for each network, content analysis of the public resumes of participants in the dataset yields factor categories.
- Researched Latent Semantic Analysis(LSA), and implemented TF-IDF for information retrieval including data preprocessing, Document-Term Matrix, and topic modeling. Implemented Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection(UMAP) for Data Visualization.
Experience
University of Illinois at Chicago - Student Mentor
- Helped mentor a CS freshman intern in the lab.
- provided software demos and hands-on training and guidance when requested.
University of Illinois at Chicago - Teaching Assistant
- Led instructional efforts in Design courses, including the assignments and exams.
- Facilitated office hours, conducted lab presentations, graded assignments, and created hands-on tutorials, actively engaging students in the learning process.
Hsoft Coporation - Full-Stack engineer Intern
March 2021 - June 2021
- Completed more than 95% front-end work during Builing a COVID-19 prevent and control dashboard for Harbin Police Office with Vue.js and JavaScript.
- Closely worked with the Database framework team and designed the database structure for reducing performance pressure caused by Over 500,000 simultaneous data entry.
- By flattening the tree data, reconstructing the tree structure with padding indentation, and efficiently rendering long lists in combination with virtual lists, it solves the problem of using general tree components to render large amounts of data (1000+ tree nodes).
- Fixed the problem of a large number of Doms drawn, scrolling, expanding, and collapsing constantly causing page repainting and reflow, which causes poor performance, and improved the overall performance by 200%.
- By listening to scroll events to Optimize the problem that a large number of location updates in asynchronous time caused the system to freeze.
- Modifying the execution request In the guard of Vue-Router, all the required data is processed when the page is to be loaded, which improves the page update efficiency by 93%.
Kumi Corporation - Front-End Engineer
January 2019 - April 2019
- Completed the front-end development of the SaaS platform utilizing Vue.js, and wrote a live-video stream processing component that can be commonly used, which can load 2000+ people at the same time.
- Optimized the interaction between the website and customers and implemented Data visualization in WeChat Applet with E-chart.js. Put parent-child component communication to improve information transfer rate in the cross-component part of large websites in the process of using Vue.js.
Skills
Selected Courses
Algorithm: Design & Analysis
Innovating With Information Systems
Data Management For Analytic
Database Applications Design and Development
Business Intelligence
Calculus
Linear Algebra
Probability Theory
Statistics
Operating System
Computer Network
Data Structure
Operations Research
Database Principles and Applications
