×
Wentao Zhang

Wentao Zhang
Los Angeles, California, USA
+1 (213)255-1218
zhan914@usc.edu
English, Chinese

Background

About

About

Incoming 2018 summer intern at Jingchi.ai.
M.S. in Computer Science, expected December 2018.
Seeking for full-time job starting at Spring 2019.
Education

Education

  • Master student in Computer Science,  University of Southern California

    June, 2017 - Present

  • B. S. in Computer Science and Technology,  Peking University

    Sep, 2013 - July, 2017

Work Experience

Experience

  • Summer Research Assistant,  Zhang Research Group, Computer Systems Lab, Cornell University

    July, 2016 - Sept, 2016 2 months

    Did some research on Binarized Neural Network (BNN) Acceleration.
    Against x86 processor, Intel Xeon E5-2640, our group achieved a 2.5x speedup with FPGA accelerator on Zedboard, a platform with much lower power consumption.
    I rebuilt the BNN in C++ (link), including dense-layer, conv-layer, pool-layer and batch-norm-layer, and then parallelized BNN pipeline with Halide, tested it on x86 processor and mGPU board, got a 2x speedup on average against the BNN implementation with Lasagne.

    It was a really wonderful experience to work with PhD student Ritchie Zhao, Steve Dai and Professor Zhiru Zhang. After this experience, I was proficient in working on a sever, and developing in Linux environment. Also, I learned how to collaborate with partners in a team project.

  • Software Development Intern,  National Engineering Lab for Video Technology, Peking University

    Apr, 2015 - June, 2016 1 year 2 months

    My ex-roommate and good friend, Yuhang Zhao and I developed a video searching demo based on image feature during the research internship.
    We extracted the image feature with SIFT algorithm, an OpenCV built-in function. I introduced Compact Descriptors for Visual Search (CDVS) as an efficient method extracting the video frame features, and designed an image-to-video matching scheme. Besides the basic design, we experimented different parameter values for frame downsampling and video interval sampling to gain speedup without loss of accuracy.

    Frankly speaking, the searching speed of the demo was reasonably slow, though we had used the cutting-edge technique CDVS provided by Ph.D. student Jie Chen, though I dived myself into the searching algorithm and improved it as much as possible. Because of that, I knew that research was full of difficulties, so I really respect the researchers who devote themselves in science and engineering.
    By the way, thanks for the guidance from Professor Ma. He inspired me a lot during that year, and he was willing to answer my questions and help me in both study and life.

Porjects

Projects

  • Stock Search Web App

    Nov, 2017

    Developed a website and android application that allows users to search stock information using the Alpha Vantage API, manage and share their favorite stock.

    Web front end: Check it out at this link and Github link
    Android front end: Download and Github link
    Back end: Node.js

  • Route Recognition Based on Coarse-grained Cellphone Location Information 

    Apr, 2016 - May, 2017

    Applied a multi-layer dynamic programming algorithm to retrieve the route based on simulative location data. (report in Chinese)

  • Log File System 

    Jan, 2016

    Wrapped file modifying APIs in HDFS and constructed a log file system. (report in Chinese)

  • Birdway  multi-people editing plugin for Atom

    Oct, 2015 - Dec, 2015

    Built the server-side, tested the usability among several clients and the server. (demo)

  • Pedestrian and Car Detection on PKUSVD Dataset 

    Nov, 2015 - Dec, 2015

    Applied Fast-RCNN model on PKUSVD Dataset, got 85% precision with 80% recall on average. (report)

  • Wiki News Classification based on Bayes 

    Nov, 2015

    Crawled web data from Wiki News with Python framework, Scrapy, and classified the news into several categories. (report in Chinese)

  • Image Segmentation 

    June, 2015

    Implemented semi-supervised image segmentation based on min-cut algorithm. (report)

  • Mahjong Game 

    Apr, 2015

    Developed a match-and-clear game with Java. (jar)

Awards

Awards

  • Gold Medal (Tenth Place), The ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest Mudanjiang Site 2014

    Silver Medal (Twenty-third Place), The ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest Chengdu Site 2013

    International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2013 China Team Selection Competition Ninth Place

    Merit Student of Peking University, 2013 - 2014 Acadamic Year

    Tung OOCL Scholarship, Peking University, 2013 - 2014 Acadamic Year

    May Fourth Scholarship, Peking University, 2015 - 2016 Acadamic Year

    Learning Improvement Award, Peking University, 2015 - 2016 Acadamic Year

Publications

Publications

Skills

Skills

  • Programming Languages
    C++ C Java Python Assembly SQL MATLAB Linux Shell LaTex
  • Web Development and Data Mining
    Javascript HTML CSS PHP Node.js jQuery AngularJS Bootstrap Heritrix Tornado Flask Scrapy
  • Other Frameworks
    Halide OpenCL OpenMP MPICH Hadoop Tensorflow OpenCV QT