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General Information
| Full Name | Hengchang Hu (胡恒昌) |
| Contact | hengchang.hu [at] u.nus.edu |
| Languages | English, Mandarin |
Education
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2019 - Now Singapore
Ph.D. Candidate - Computer Science
National University of Singapore - Member of Web Information Retrieval Natural Language Processing Group (WING).
- Research Direction - Recommender System, under supervision of Prof. Min-Yen Kan.
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2015 - 2019 Chengdu
B.Eng. - Software Engineering
Sichuan University - Overall GPA - 3.78/4.0 ;
- Ranked 1st/270 annually for 4 consecutive years and maintaining the 1st overall.
Experience
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2023 Singapore
Research Assistant - Fine-grained Image Classification
NUS — Media Management Research Lab - Implemented image segmentation techniques (SAM) and model design, as well as coordinated with the biology team and the app development team. My focus lies in utilizing the two-stream ResNet architecture for fine-grained classification of plant or animal images. Supervised by Prof. Roger Zimmermann.
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2022 - 2023 Singapore
Research Intern - Recommender System
Huawei — Noah’s Ark Lab - Studied topics of (1) interactive recommender systems and temporal knowledge graphs, and (2) modality fusion in sequential recommenders. Submitted research papers respectively as the first author. Supervised by Dr. Ruiming Tang and Dr. Yong Liu.
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2018 Beijing
Research Intern - Big Data Storage
Chinese Academy of Sciences - Institue of Computing Technology; - Applied TensorFlow’s application to flow distributed data system (Spark Streaming). Mainly responsible for resampling (oversampling and undersampling) the data, and deploying them to HDFS. Supervised by Prof. Jin Xiong
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2017 California
Winter Camp - Innovation and Leadership
UC Berkeley - Be selected (0.3%) with full sponsorship to attend the short term courses of innovation and Leadership in UCB.
Teaching/Organization Experience
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Teaching
- Teach CS6101 WING.NUS Large Language Models (Aug. 2023 -).
- Assisted teaching NUS Modules CS3244 Machine Learning.
- Assisted teaching NUS Modules BT2102 Data Management and Visualisation
- Assisted teaching NUS Modules CS5228 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
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supervision
- Supervised the NUS undergraduate final year projects - Video Clip Recommendation for MOOCs Forum
- Supervised the NUS undergraduate final year projects - NUS Module Recommender System.
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Organization
- Serve as Program Chair of Workshop on Personalized Generative AI in CIKM (Oct. 2023).
- Serve as Reviewer of ACL (2021).
- Organize and run an Recommendation System workshop for WING@NUS (March 2022).
- Organize and run an Information Retrieval seminar in WING@NUS (Sep. 2021 - Dec. 2021).
- Served as the Grade President, and the Monitor of the Innovation Class during undergraduate 4 years.
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Scoccer, Tennis; Guitar, Er-Hu.