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Aaron Branson Cigres Li (李浩东)

  • abcli@connect.ust.hk
  • I am an undergraduate statistics student with experiences in deep learning. I hope to be able to make use of theoretical knowledge to drive innovation in AI applications.

Education

  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • Duration: September 2022 - Present
    • Mathematics major (Statistics track)
    • Relevant courses taken: Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Linear Algebra, Python Programming, Applied Statistics, Mathematical analysis, Multivariable Calculus, Probability, Real analysis, Sampling
  • Saint Jude Catholic School - Manila
    • Duration: June 2020 - May 2022
    • International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

Machine learning experience

  • Fine-tuning large language model on mathematical reasoning
    • Duration: Feb 2024 - Present
    • Description: Undergraduate research opportunity. Reading papers and data cleaning on project that works with large language model and mathematical data. Used open source Latex recognizing OCR models to extract data from PDF.
    • Report PDF
  • Exploring sequential algebraic reasoning capabilities of neural networks
    • Duration: May 2023 - August 2023
    • Description: Independent research supervised by professor. Trained neural networks to sequential reason on elementary algebraic expressions. Engineered own data.
    • Report PDF
  • Ensembled autoencoders: An approach to modelling convolution autoencoders
    • Duration: September 2020 - March 2022
    • Description: Highschool capstone paper. Explored behaviors of convolutional autoencoders (CAE). Developed and tested new ways of training CAE models using Keras.
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Work experience

  • Data science internship

    • Date: June 2024 - Present
    • Description: Building data mining and labelling pipeline to train models for automated commercial video production.

  • Web development Internship at CometOne Solutions

    • Date: June 2021
    • Description: Interned as a web developer and worked on a project for inventory management. Tasks assigned included using Vue to work on frontend design and PHP for backend API routing. Laravel web framework was used.

Personal projects

  • Using OCR technology to extract data from captured fill-in forms
    • Date: July 2022
    • Description: Used TesseractOCR and OpenCV to process captured fill-in forms and extract to digital data
    • GitHub repository
  • Exploring an alternative method to increase the critical angle of the Garisienda tower
    • Date: February 2022 - April 2022
    • Description: Used trigonometry and calculus to construct a model to calculate critical angles of masses with varying weight distributions
    • Report PDF

Additional information

  • I can fluently speak: English, Mandarin, Hokkien, Tagalog
  • The latest version of my CV can be accessed through aaronbransonli.com