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B.Sc. Software Engineering

Macau University of Science and Technology — Graduated Aug 2025

Data Structures & Algorithms · Operating Systems · Computer Networks · Database Systems · Software Architecture & Design Patterns · Machine Learning & AI Fundamentals · Full-Stack Web Development · Cloud & Distributed Systems

Best Industrial Paper Award

CCAI 2026 — The 6th International Conference on Computer Communication and Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing

Best Presentation Award

CCAI 2026 — The 6th International Conference on Computer Communication and Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing

Independent Researcher — Clinical AI

Designed and implemented a Dual-Tower Transformer (DT-Transformer) for in-hospital stroke mortality prediction using the multicenter eICU Collaborative Research Database. The architecture decouples categorical demographics from numerical vitals into separate encoding towers, achieving an AUPRC of 0.6171 (std 0.006) — a 14.4% relative improvement over the strongest neural baseline. An Adaptive Runtime Safeguard was integrated for out-of-distribution detection at inference time.

  • Outperformed strongest neural baseline NN (AUPRC 0.5394) and Standard Transformer (0.5279); competitive with XGBoost (0.6467)
  • Implemented attention map visualization for clinical interpretability of feature importance
  • Paper accepted and presented at CCAI 2026 (The 6th International Conference on Computer Communication and Artificial Intelligence, May 24, 2026)
Machine Learning Engineer Intern

China Southern Power Grid AI Technology Co., Ltd. — Guangzhou

  • Developed a computer vision pipeline for power inspection robots to automate circuit breaker state recognition, replacing manual visual inspection on high-voltage lines
  • Fine-tuned YOLOv8 on domain-specific power equipment imagery, achieving reliable detection across varying lighting and weather conditions
  • Built and maintained a 60 GB image dataset across Guangdong Province substations; standardized annotation formats and automated ingestion scripts
  • Conducted fault-type EDA (Pandas / Matplotlib) to guide class-balanced sampling strategies
  • Outcome: Written commendation from supervising engineer; earned 100/100 on formal internship evaluation
DT-Transformer — Clinical AI Training Pipeline
  • Engineered an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw eICU CSV ingestion to model serialization, handling 200k+ patient records with reproducible preprocessing via custom DataLoader classes
  • Modular architecture separating data, model, training, and evaluation layers for maintainability
  • Stratified 5-fold cross-validation harness with automated metric logging (AUROC, AUPRC, F1) across all baselines
  • Containerized full training environment with Docker; open-source release in preparation
Time-Series Prediction System — Undergraduate AI Project
  • Designed and trained LSTM, GRU, and vanilla RNN models; best LSTM configuration achieved 1.42% MAPE on the held-out test set
  • Built full preprocessing pipeline: missing-value imputation, normalization, sliding-window construction, leakage-free splits
  • Benchmarked against MLP, Linear Regression, and XGBoost baselines with publication-quality visualizations (Matplotlib / Seaborn)
  • Implemented early stopping, learning-rate scheduling, and gradient clipping to stabilize RNN training
AI-Integrated Web Platform — B.Sc. Capstone
  • Built a full-stack system with Vue.js SPA frontend, Java Spring Boot RESTful backend, and embedded Python ML microservice via REST
  • Integrated trained Scikit-learn classification model for on-demand inference without re-training overhead
  • JWT-based auth with role-based access control; deployed via Docker Compose on Linux server
Personal Academic Website — github.com/ZR-JIA
  • Custom responsive static site from scratch — zero third-party UI frameworks
  • Component-based layout via Jekyll includes, Liquid templating, and CSS custom properties (design tokens)
  • Automated deployment via GitHub Pages CI/CD; SEO metadata, structured data, sitemap, robots.txt
Languages Python · Java · C / C++ · SQL · JavaScript
ML Frameworks PyTorch · Scikit-learn · XGBoost · YOLOv8 · NumPy · Pandas
Architectures Transformer · LSTM · GRU · MLP · CNN (YOLO)
Data & Viz Matplotlib · Seaborn · OpenCV
Web & Systems Vue.js · Spring Boot · REST API · HTML / CSS
DevOps & Tools Git · Docker · Linux · LaTeX
  • Clinical Predictive Modeling

    Transformer-based temporal modeling on longitudinal EHR data; early warning systems for ICU critical events with missing-data-aware architectures, building on prior work in stroke risk prediction (CCAI 2026).

  • Medical Image Analysis

    Vision Transformer and hybrid CNN-ViT architectures for brain MRI segmentation; semi-supervised learning strategies to address annotation scarcity in radiology AI, with focus on multi-class lesion delineation.

  • Explainable AI for Healthcare

    Faithfulness evaluation of attention-based saliency methods for deep radiology models; human-in-the-loop clinical validation frameworks bridging model accuracy and clinician trust in high-stakes diagnosis.

Mandarin Fluent (Native)
English Intermediate — academic reading & writing proficient