About Me
Hi! I am a senior year student of B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering at Zhejiang University, China (GPA: 3.92/4, Rank: 3/64). I’m also an exchange student of Computer Engineering at UIUC, USA (GPA: 4/4). I’m fortunately supervised by Prof. Ying Wang at ICT (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science).
In 2024, I spent a wonderful spring at Bytedance working on Tiktok recommendation system refactoring. I brought engineer and business metrics improvement on multiple Tiktok Apps.
Publication
[Pub1] Zhirong Chen, Caleb Ellington, Eric Xing, Haohan Wang. Heteroscedastic Personalized Regression Unveils Genetic Basis of Alzheimer’s Disease Stratified by Cognitive Level. Submitted to ISMB 2024 (CCF B).
[Pub2] Kaiyan Chang, Kun Wang, Nan Yang, Ying Wang, Dantong Jin, Wenlong Zhu, Zhirong Chen, Cangyuan Li, Hao Yan, Yunhao Zhou, Zhuoliang Zhao, Yuan Cheng, Yudong Pan, Yiqi Liu, Mengdi Wang, Shengwen Liang, yinhe han, Huawei Li and Xiaowei Li. Data is all you need: Finetuning LLMs for Chip Design via an Automated design-data augmentation framework
Skills
| Skill | Capability |
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| Programming | Python, C, C++, CUDA, X86, SQL, MongoDB, JavaScript, System Verilog, Verilog |
| Tool | Pytorch, Quartus, VCS, Nsys, FPGA, Latex, PLINK, react, MySQL Workbench, Git, Docker |
| Language | Mandarin, English: TOEFL 109 (R: 30, L: 29, S: 22, W: 28) |
Honors
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Outstanding Graduate in Zhejiang Province (2024)
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Yunni and Maxine Pao Memorial Scholarship from UIUC, $3000 (2023)
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Zhejiang University Scholarship - First Prize $\times$ 3 (2021, 2022, 2023)
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Scholarship from the government of Zhejiang Province $\times$ 3 (2021, 2022, 2023)
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ZJUI Academic Scholarship - Second Prize $\times$ 3 (2021, 2022, 2023)
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Outstanding Students of Zhejiang University $\times$ 3 (2021, 2022, 2023)
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Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award $\times$ 2 (2022, 2023)
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Outstanding Individual in Community Survice of Zhejiang University (2021)
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Outstanding Summer Research in Zhejiang University
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UIUC Dean’s List (2021, 2022, 2023)
Competitions
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Finalist (Top 1%) in 2022 MCM (International Mathematical Contest In Modeling)
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First Prize (Top 5%) in 2022 CMC (Chinese Mathematics Competition)
Experience
Intern: Develop the recommendation system
Company: Bytedance, Tiktok
Time: Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
Research: Chipgpt: Towards Training Hardware Generation Large Language Model
Supervisor: Ying Wang Professor, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science
Time: Aug 2023 - Nov 2023
Research: Self-supervised Point Cloud Sampling
Supervisor: Shutao Xia Professor, Tsinghua University; Tao Dai Assistant Professor, Shenzhen University
Time: May 2023 - Aug 2023
Research: Personalized Model - Precise Alzheimer’s Genetic Discovery
Supervisor: Haohan Wang Assistant Professor, UIUC
Time: Dec. 2022 - Nov. 2023
Research: ShapeNet: Shapelet Graph Attention Network
Supervisor: Yang Yang Associate Professor, Zhejiang University
Time: May. 2022 - Aug. 2022
Research: Unsupervised Pre-training Improves Tooth Segmentation in 3-Dimensional Intraoral Mesh Scans
Supervisor: Zuozhu Liu Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University
Time: Jun. 2021 - Mar. 2022