2012/9 - 2016/6
National Tsing Hua University
B.A.A., Double Specialty Program of Management and Technology
GPA (3rd & 4th year): 3.82/4.3
Majors: Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management and Quantitative Finance
2016/8 - 2018/9
National Tsing Hua University
M.S., Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
GPA: 4.17/4.3; Coursework: Statistics, Experimental Design, Linear Programming, Human Factors, UX Research
Thesis: A Comparative Study of Virtual Footwear Try-On in Virtual and Augmented Reality
2022/9 - 2023/12
University of California — Los Angeles (UCLA)
M.Eng., Master of Engineering - Data Science
Relevant Coursework: Machine Learning Algorithms, Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data and Business Analytics
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Vectorized Similarity Search in Multi-modal Databases: A user interface enabling similarity search:
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Introduced CLIP to embed texts and images into high-dimensional vector spaces and fine-tune pre-trained model to achieve 96% precision rate.
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Implemented k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) and Faiss Approximate k-Nearest Neighbor (ANN) to conduct multimodal similarity searches, which include image to text, image to image, text to image, and text to text functions.
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Used an open-source python library Streamlit to construct user interface enabling similarity search.
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Selected Projects (UCLA)
AI Engineer and Data Scientist
2019/8 - 2022/5
President's Office, Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, a subsidiary of Formosa Plastics Corp, the largest petrochemical company in Taiwan
1. Leverage of Data Science for Revolutionizing Traditional Production Process
Skills: Python (Numpy/ Pandas/ SciPy/ Scikit-learn/...), Statistical Methods
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Led AI projects and communicate with the production line to maximize the target profit.
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Executed predictive analysis techniques through ML/ optimization with Python to increase production capacity and lessen undesirable substances during production process.
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Used SQL and Microsoft Power BI to increase the usability and accessibility of sales data and provide data insights like YOY/ MOM growth rate according to different sales person and locations, boosting decision-making process.
2. Digital Transformation Promotion for Nan Ya Plastics
Skills: UiPath, VB.Net, C# , Power BI
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Promoted Digital Transformation for the entire company and developed a DX roadmap with the senior manager.
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Programmed 30+ automated processes across multiple systems including websites, databases, ERP, PDF, Email, and Excel using the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technique with UiPath.
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Extensive technical experience in introducing the RPA technique into 12 business departments, providing technical support, collaborative planning, and troubleshooting for business units.
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Accumulated 2 years of experience of lecturing and tutoring Python/ RPA techniques as a corporate lecturer.
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Conducted a dashboard UI design of an infant vital sign monitor and launched it at a famous confinement center in Taiwan, raising the alertness of nurses on the newborn's health condition with the help of information displayed on the dashboard. Also held user interviews with nurses to make sustainable improvements.
Web Marketing Intern
Portwell, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan
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Built an internal website for Ganlot, a newly established Portwell subsidiary,
using HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap, improving worker productivity and efficiency by providing immediate access to product specification, market trend, and regulation.
Product Design Intern
2015/7 - 2015/9
Trusted-Solution, Inc., a subsidiary of Portwell, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan
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Designed six new products based on technology trends and wrote product plans, including technical analysis, market analysis, and feasibility analysis. At the same time, I learned Illustrator and Photoshop to draw product sketches.
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Patented two utility models relating to smart home applications (TW Patent No. M526794 U) and the Internet of Things (TW Patent No. M517882 U) in 2016. This was the first time for an intern successfully applying for patents at Trusted-Solution.
Selected Projects:
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Predictive Analysis for Increasing Production Capacity or Reducing Cost:
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Extracted important feature insights from industrial datasets by organizing structured and unstructured data into usable formats and conducting data preprocessing, EDA, and feature engineering techniques.
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Reduced 34% of COD (Chemical Oxygen Density) concentration in waste water by building a random forest model and PSO optimization after performing data preprocessing, EDA, and feature engineering techniques.
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Lessened 20% of steam consumption in the factory with a 0.87 of R2 on test data after a few weeks of model tuning and feature engineering including PCA, stepwise regression, etc.
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Other projects included reducing power usage, raising production yield, and lessening by-products.
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) projects:
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Deep dived into daily process using task capture and found out manual and repetitive tasks that could be automated.
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Computerized order process and achieved 80% of order automation for the major sales department.
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Created crawl systems to acquire news and market information, outputting reports to the departments in need.
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Data Visualization projects:
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Saved 30% of manual effort monthly for the Polyester film department by building a financial dashboard which implemented SQL to access the company’s database and Power BI to visualize sales data.
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2014/7 - 2014/9
UX Designer and Researcher
2018/12 - 2019/8
Wistron Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan
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Led the dual-screen and secondary-display design of laptops, including but not limited to initiating market research, finding out potential needs from interviews, designing applicable user scenarios and holding cross-department brainstorming activities.
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Planned and designed a social blog website, Anyface. The design of the interactive social website, Anyface, allows users to highlight their personal style in their personal websites, and increase the interaction with their friends. From the careful observation of the mentality of people and Internet users, a unique personalized page is created, and a special image library is provided for decorating their website pages, which can instantly reflect the current mood of the user. This provides an opportunity for people to care about their loved ones.
Journal & Conference Papers
Patents
J1
Chih-Hsing Chu, Yi-An Chen, Ying-Yin Huang, Yun-Ju Lee (2022) "A Comparative Study of Virtual Footwear Try-on Applications in Virtual and Augmented Reality," ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 4, 041004.
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Yi-An Chen and Chih-Hsing Chu (2019) "A Comparative Study of Virtual Footwear Try-On in Virtual and Augmented Reality," IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Vancouver, Canada.
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Yu-Wang Liu, Yi-An Chen, Jie-Ke Pan, and Chih-Hsing Chu (2018) “Avatar-Based Virtual Try-On of Footwear for New Retail,” IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Engineering, Tianjin, China.
These patents can be seen at Taiwan Patent Search Systems:
P1
“Intelligent Type Audio” – TW Patent No. M526794 U – Date of Patent: July 1, 2016
Please key in M526794
P2
“Intelligent Mobile Nursing Device” – TW Patent No. M517882 U – Date of Patent: February 21, 2016
Please key in M517882
Programming Proficiency
Python (Advanced)
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First self-studied using online courses and tutorials in 2019.
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Completed AI Technical Professionals Program in Artificial Intelligence and received a certificate from the Taiwan AI Academy for the course completed from Dec 2019 to Apr 2020. The course curriculum included Python programming, Statistics, Probability, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, CNN, Transfer Learning, RNN, GAN, and NLP. All the chapters were taught in Python.
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Accumulated hands-on experiences by implementing Python on AI projects at Nan Ya Plastics Corp. from 2019 to 2022. Very familiar with data processing techniques.
RPA Techniques (Advanced)
(VB.net/ C#/ UiPath)
Self-studied using online courses like UiPath Academy and then implemented to develop software-based robots to automate repetitive and manual tasks at Nan Ya Plastics Corp. from 2020.
C++ (Intermediate)
Completed the Data Structure & advanced C++ programming course and received a certificate from the Information System Training Program of Computer Science and Information Engineering in National Taiwan University, 2016. The course curriculum includes the topics of Linked lists, Stack, Queue, Array, Trees, and Binary Search Trees. Completed ten homework assignments for each chapter and passed a final exam.
HTML/ CSS (Intermediate)
Self-studied and implemented in building an internal website for the company during my web marketing internship at Portwell Inc. Used HTML and CSS to develop flexible, attractive, and user-friendly websites for Ganlot, a newly established Portwell subsidiary, improving worker efficiency by providing immediate access to product specification, market trend, and regulation.
SQL (Novice)
Completed Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure course and passed the final exam with a grade of 100 out of 100 at Taiwan UCOM Education and Training Center in 2021. Learned to use SQL commands to filter, sort, and summarize data. Manipulate strings, dates, and numeric data using functions to integrate data from different sources into fields with the correct format for analysis.
Implemented SQL to query data in the ERP oracle database of the company and put them into Power BI dashboard for subsequent use of visualizing sales data, providing managers with a real-time financial dashboard.
 Gold Award (bonus NTD $150,000)Gold Award (bonus NTD $150,000), Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition, NTHU, 2017 Invented height-adjustable high heels to help office ladies relieve pressure on their feet during commuting. |  First Place WinnerFirst Place Winner, UCLITE Startup Competition, UC Berkeley Tsinghua Alumni Association, 2018 Led the team to plan a product concept, a smart fitness clothing, GymUp, which can smartly adjust user posture and maintain safety. Stood out from 10 teams, including UC Berkeley students, and won first place. |  Best Innovation AwardBest Innovation Award, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition, China, 2016 - Headed the team to design a smart bicycle parking rack to address bike parking chaos. - Initiated the animation showcase and contributed to developing the product prototype. |
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 First Runner-upFirst Runner-up, Semi-finals of China Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition, 2017 Marketed our company and a brand-new product, Fifeet, a virtual footwear try-on AR system. Led the design of a sophisticated PowerPoint to facilitate visual presentation. |  Superior AwardSuperior Award, China Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition, 2017 |  Superior AwardSuperior Award, Maker China 2017 Entrepreneurial Competition for Augmented Reality, 2017 |
Awards
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Led the team to plan a product concept, a smart fitness clothing, GymUp, which can smartly adjust user posture and maintain safety. Stood out from 10 teams, including UC Berkeley students, and won first place.
1. First Place Winner - GymUp
UCLITE Startup Competition,
UC Berkeley Tsinghua Alumni Association, 2018
Headed the team to design a smart bicycle parking rack to address bike parking chaos. Initiated the animation showcase and contributed to developing the product prototype.
3. Best Innovation Award - Bike Hugger
Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition, China, 2016
4. Superior Award
5. First Runner-up
6. Superior Award
Cooperated with a startup company, Star-Media Tech, to promote a brand-new product, Fifeet, a virtual footwear try-on AR system. Led the design of a sophisticated PowerPoint to facilitate visual presentation.