CV

General Information

Full Name Mingyuan MA
Date of Birth 30th April 2001
Languages Chinese, English

Education

  • 2023 - 2025
    Master of Science
    Harvard Univeristy
    • Data Science (SM)
  • 2019 - 2023
    Bachelor of Arts
    University of California, Berkeley
    • High Distinction (Expected)
    • Statistics (BA)
    • Computer Science (BA)
  • 2013 - 2019
    High School Diploma
    Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University
    • High School - International Department (2017 - 2019)
    • High School - Gaokao Department (2016 - 2017)
    • Middle School (2013 - 2016)

Research Experience

  • 2022 - present
    Research Assistant
    HPC-AI Lab, National University of Singapore
    • Proposed a novel Continual Learning approach to mitigate catastrophic forgetting problems and enhance the learning effect for vision-language model, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)
    • Supervised by Professor Yang You
  • 2022 - present
    Research Assistant
    Berkeley Operations and Behavioral Analytics Lab, UC Berkeley
    • Predicted player's type to provide personalized AI-generated tips from their actions with neural / feature-based models, improving the collaboration between human and AI on decison making
    • Supervised by Professor Park Sinchaisri

Internship

  • 2022
    Data Analyst
    Flourish Fi, Berkeley, CA
    • Pre-processed 65k+ transaction data and analyzed relationships between user's individual information (e.g., gender, age, etc.) and their transactions' frequency, amount, and retention rate with SQL
    • Deployed BERT-classifier to conduct sentiment analysis on users' comments
    • Modeling total transaction amount with user's sentiment
  • 2020 - 2021
    Data Analyst
    Precogify Diagnostics Inc., Beijing
    • Developed an Automatic Retention Rime Calibration System using Decision Tree Regressor and Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) with early warning of abnormalities of test samples, replacing a manual process and significantly reducing the calibration process from hours to seconds