Education

• New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2020 - 2025
  • Ph.D candidate in Computer Science
  • FinTech Lab, advised by Prof. Guiling (Grace) Wang
• Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2017 - 2019
  • M.S. in Data Science (Statistics)
• Xiamen University, 2013 - 2017
  • B.S. in Economics & Statistics

Work Experience

• Applied Scientist, Amazon, 06/2025 - Present.
  • Machine learning models on brand brilliance
• Research Intern, NEC Labs, 09/2024 - 03/2025:
  • LLM on flowchart understanding and Question Answering Assistant
• PhD Intern, Clinical Informatics, Regeneron Genetics Center, 05/2024 - 08/2024:
  • Machine learning models on human disease and phenotype detection
• AI/ML Research Intern, Samsung Display America Lab, 06/2023 - 09/2023:
  • Molecule Representation Learning via Graph Neural Networks and TorchMD-Net
• Data Scientist, Plymouth Rock Assurance, 05/2019 - 07/2020:
  • Customer Retention Prediction, Pricing Model
• Research Assistant, Rutgers University, 11/2019 - 04/2020:
  • Deterioration Model on Long Term Bridge Performance

Service

• Web Chair: 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF) 2024, KDD Finance Day 2023
• PC Member: 4th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF) 2023
• Presenter: The 1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytics in Finance and Commerce (BDAFC), The 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2023}
• Reviewer: KDD, TKDE, PAKDD

Supervised Students

• Alon Lerner, Undergraduate student at NJIT, 2023
  • Earning Call Analysis, Gap Analysis
• Ann Maria Chirackal George, Master student at NJIT, 2022
  • ESG, FOMC
• Shaswat Dharaiya, Master student at NJIT, 2022
  • Textual Analysis from Social Media (Twitter, Reddit) for Stock Market
• Heyuan Huang, Master student at NJIT, 2021 - 2022
  • Churn Analysis on Imbalanced Data
• Parth Paresh Patel, Master student at NJIT, 2021
  • Survival Analysis for Customer Retention in Insurance
• Sarvesh Shukla, Master student at NJIT, 2020 - 2021
  • Deep Learning with Sentiment Analysis on Stock Prediction

Teaching Assistant

• 2024 Spring: DS675 Machine Learning
• 2023 Fall: DS677 Deep Learning
• 2022 Fall: CS104 Computer Programming and Graphics Problems (Python)
• 2021 Summer: CS 610 Data Structure & Algorithm
• 2021 Spring: CS114 Intro to Computer Science II (Java)

Leadership

• 2021 – Present: President, ACM-W in NJIT Chapter.
  • Organized the event “Roundtable Conversation with Dr. Jeff Ullman, Turing Award Laureate 2020”
• 2021 – 2022: President, Graduate Woman in Computer Society (GWiCS), NJIT.