Hi, I'm Kaiwen Shen

Purdue University, West Lafayette

B.S. Computer Engineering, Minor in Mathematics, and Minor in Business Economics

Pendo.io: Software Engineering Intern

• Designed, developed, and presented a generic and scalable comment model for Pendo’s Guide alerts (model designed to support future usages on other Pendo products).
• Produced code within the Pendo codebase on both Backend (using GOlang) and Frontend (using Vue.js) and established RESTful API endpoints with Google Cloud Storage operations.
• Worked in an Agile/Scrum environment in a team setting with cross-team collaborations. Participated in all sprint activities.

Purdue University: Teaching Assistant/Grader

• ECE 39595 - Object Oriented Programming C++
• ECE 36800 - Data Structure
• ECE 26400 - Advanced C Programming
• Supervise and tutor 200+ students and evaluate course work.
• Work closely with professors and faculty members to ensure optimal student success in the course.

Clique: Spatiotemporal Object Re-identification at the City Scale

• Participant in Purdue Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
• Co-author on computer vision/data analysis project, published at USENIX symposium ODSI’21.
• Work with faculty and PhD student to develop a new query processing engine for object reidentification problems with large scale video data that is competitive in accuracy and advantageous in run time compared to existing algorithms.

Cancer Data Model: Cancer Diversity and Correlations Data Analytics

• Participated in the interdisciplinary research project that looks to develop a model for identifying cancer subtypes using TCGA’s clinical and molecular data.
• Develop a multi-view co-clustering model on RNA sequence data to identify molecular clusters.

Deep Reinforcement Learning System Control: Purdue V.I.P.

• Utilize deep neural network to predict the stability of power systems utilizing the environment provided by pypownet.
• Implemented Tensorflow Keras neural networks to achieve stability in the virtual system.

what2wear

• Built a web page that retrieves location and weather data of different cities using APIs and presents users with a combination of weather appropriate attire.
• Next step to implement swift version of the program.

NBA Prediction

• Constructed a growable NBA dataset with various categories of team data, scraped using python and regular expression.
• Utilized Tensorflow Keras Sequential Neural Network and Ridge regression to predict game result and winning margin.

Sudoku

• Present to user a game of Sudoku using Java GUI and recursion technique.
• Next step to implement swift version of the program.

Purdue Student Engineering Foundation
 — Tech Committee Director

• Tech Committee Director (since Nov. 2020): oversee operations of the technology committee of PSEF, maintain the PSEF website, and assists other committees in technological areas
• Lead engineering campus tour for prospective students and family.
• Facilitate outreach events for high school students to engage interest in the engineering field.
• Publish the incoming freshman transition page (under contact) on PSEF website.

Purdue Honors College Global House Program
 — Mentor

• International community within the Honors College with focus on cultural inclusion.
• Provide mentorship and leadership to other first year/continuing domestic/international honors students especially under the pandemic situation.

Purdue Association for Computing Machinery
 — Member

• SIG AI:
  • Formulate generic multivariate linear regression model to solve machine learning questions.
  • Develop primitive algorithm utilizing tensorflow and visual sensor to train machine to peel fruit.
• SIG APP:
  • Create original android based projects for certain university features such as laundry and safewalk using Flutter.

Purdue University Dance Marathon
 — Morale Committee Member

• Facilitate event for PUDM with over 100 participants and fundraise for Riley Children's Hospital.