Projects

News Crawler – personal side project

2015

• Inspired by my daily technical blogs reading. Develop a program that grab news from my interest websites, open sourced on my GitHub.
• To Do in future: Improve the scalability and implement it on bigger cluster. Make it more generic so it can grab more news from various sources, and integrate with Storm and HDFS if needed.
• ava Restful, Spring, Redis.

HP Vertica Big Data Conference 2014 Hackathon

Boston

08/2014

• Our team got The Third in this competition
• The Hackathon is designed for intermediate to advanced Vertica users looking to have a fun day working on some really cool stuff. The project is sort of Data Mining. Our team of 4 were from different companies and never met before, and then spent the entire day working on the Hackathon challenge.
• Utilized R, Tableau and Vertica Database to analyse and visualize the data, dig useful information among a big data set.

Steel City CodeFest 2014

Pittsburgh

02/2014

• The Steel City Codefest is a city-wide app building event that brings together coders, designers, and innovation enthusiasts to create apps for local government, citizens, and community organizations over a 24-hour period.
• This competition is sponsored by Google, Univ. of Pitt, CMU and etc.
• Our team of 4 developed an Andorid APP which contributed on the Planned Parenthood of Western PA's (PPWP) Peer Helpers program
• Utilized Java servlet, Vector Space Model, jython(python in Java), MySQL
• http://yjfox.github.io/2014/02/24/codefest.html

Col*Fusion - Research Project with Prof. Zadorozhny

University of Pittsburgh

09/2013 – 12/2013

• Group leader, we have five groups with different responsibilities, every group has 3-4 students
• Mainly responsible for data provenance, Restful Servlet between PHP and JAVA, and data visualization
• Utilized PHP, JAVA, J2EE, JavaScript, JQuery, MySQL, MSSQL, Neo4j
• Please visit our website for further information: http://colfusion.exp.sis.pitt.edu/colfusion/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• or watch our Introduction Video: http://colfusion.exp.sis.pitt.edu/colfusion/wiki/images/4/4b/ColFusionFirst_h264_vlc_secondtry.ogg

RDF to Neo4j - Course Project of Advanced Database System

University of Pittsburgh

01/2014 - 04/2014

• Coordinator(Team Leader), we have 12 team members.
• Function: Converting RDF into Neo4j; Searching the shortest path of given two nodes in Neo4j
• Utilized Java, Python, RDF, Neo4j
• Open Source

CarsFinder - Course Project of Adaptive Information System

University of Pittsburgh

01/2014 - 04/2014

• A website gives users Used Cars Recommendations. Our team of four implement own crawler to grab basic data from the Internet
• Implement Collaborative Recommendation, Content-based Recommendation and Item-based Recommendation
• Embed Stanford Semantic Analytics package, which used for analysis of related car Twitter posts
• Personally responsible for the Standford Semantic Analytics and Collaborative Recommendation
• Utilized Java, MySQL, Stanford Semantic Analytics, Twitter API
• Open Source

Blog Generator – Course Project of Web Technology & Standards

University of Pittsburgh

10/2013 - 12/2013

• Team Leader. Our team of 4 developed a brand new website that help users to build their own blog in 4 Steps.
• Utilized Jekyll and Markdown language to generate blog pages (those two also be used by Github.com)
• Utilized VS(C#) and MSSQL to build website

Accelerometer Biometric Competition

Project on Kaggle.com

10/2013 – 12/2013

• Introduction: http://www.kaggle.com/c/accelerometer-biometric-competition
• Utilized Python and Centroid Algorithm
• We have three team members, and finally got 80.7% accuracy

Speech Application – Course Project of Interactive System Design

University of Pittsburgh

11/2013 - 12/2013

• Team Leader, developed a windows speech application, which is a chess game that users play with it by speech.
• Utilized VS(VB), Micrsoft Speech API

Android Application – Course Project of Interactive System Design

University of Pittsburgh

10/2013 - 11/2013

• Team Leader, developed an App that connects Android to PC to make phone controls PC’s mouse and keyboard
• Utilized Android SDK, Eclipse, VS(C++), Socket(communication network between PC and Android)

Dynamic Web Development Research - Redesign of Department's Website

Shanghai Ocean University

12/2011 ~ 05/2012

• AIEN Institute of Shanghai Ocean University
• Programmed a dynamic website for the AIEN Institute of Shanghai Ocean University with the use of Dreamweaver, ASP, and JavaScript

Student Information Management System Application Development

Shanghai Ocean University

09/2010 - 03/2011

• Developed an online record keeping system that kept track of user information, schedules, grades, background information, scholarships, and absence information
• Utilized IIS, ASP, HTML, JavaScript, MSSQL
• Sponsored by school funding