Meet Xiaoxue (Abbie) Wang
A curious girl consistently tries to explore new things and the world!
Hi! I'm Xiaoxue Wang
👩🏻🎓💻 : Graduate student in the Computer Science Department at Michigan State University.
🎧🌟 : Research interest - application of Machine Learning/ Deep Learning/ Computer Vision in Privacy/ Fairness.
🪴📈 : Software Engineer Coop at MyCase Inc., working on MyCase Drive feature updates and implementation.
📝✨ : Former Vice President at Student Union/ Chairman of Innovation Center/ Team Player/ Activity Organizer.
Education
July 2019 - May 2022
MS in Computer Science, Michigan State University
September 2016 - March 2019
MS in Electrical and Engineering, North China Electric Power University
Recommend student (admission without examination, top 0.1%)
Advisor: Dr.Ting An, Dr. Chengyong Zhao
GPA: 3.9/4.0
July 2016 - August 2016
Exchange program, Columbia University in the City of New York
The only outstanding student
February 2016 - June 2016
Exchange program, Duke University, Kunshan
Full scholarship.
GPA: 3.85/4.0
September 2012 - June 2016
BE in Electrical Engineering, China Three Gorges University
GPA: 4.0/4.0 (Top 1%)
Coded Bias
Will AI make the world even more biased?
Project: Privacy-preserving Representation Learning in Semi-supervised Settings
Projects
Privacy-preserving Representation Learning in Semi-supervised Settings
- Ensured fairness and protected privacy for decision-making systems by proposing an algorithm for large-scale real-world datasets; improves evaluation metrics (AUCs) by >10% than state-of-art algorithms (4 baseline projects) with paper submission to 2022 CVPR.
- Implemented in real-world machine learning (textual) dataset: UCI, Law School, COMPAS.
- Implemented in real-world image datasets: CelebA, Colored MNIST, CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100.
Design of Automatic Clothes Hanger, “Siemens Cup” Industrial Automation Challenge Contest
- National First Prize (China)
- Responsible for hardware and software implementation, including designing and welding circuits, software modeling, programming, and assembling the equipment
Weakly Supervised Meal Instance Segmentation Using Two-branch Networks
- Achieved meal detection and segmentation using supervised labels to propose a novel two-branch segmentation network; demonstrated advantage over the low-quality detected object instance segmentation with accuracy up to 93%.
Two attention-based neural machine translation (NMT) model
-Translate words from English to Pig-Latin.
Deep Convolutional GAN and Cycle GAN
- Implemented and compared Convolutional GAN and Cycle GAN using real-world data; Apple-style and Windows-style emojis.
Next-Word Prediction
- Multi-layered perceptron for natural language processing
- Predicting the next word in a sentence given a sequence of words
Study of Transfer Learning
Recommender System
- Implemented and evaluated item recommendations system for real-world amazon products data.
Working Experience
Software Engineer Coops: MyCase, Inc.
January 2022 - June 2022
- Develop scalable, robust, and simple web-based solutions to MyCase Drive/Cloud using node.js and React.js;
- Formulate, implement, and evaluate algorithms and database queries to support SaaS scalability and stability;
- Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance;
- Utilize comprehensive testing, code reviews, and continuous integration to deliver high quality software, and rapidly fix bugs as they come up;
- Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from other engineering team members, QA, and product owners and customers;
- Leverage agile practices, encourage collaboration, prioritization, and urgency to develop at a rapid pace;
• Research, share and recommend new technologies and trends.
iOS App Developer: Amigo
March 2022 - Present
- Amigo is disrupting the digital pet training category with the #1 Free Premium Pet Education App. We're leveraging the ubiquity of the smartphone to provide every single person with a school in their pocket and an addictive, social pet training experience they just can't find anywhere else.
- iOS development using Swift: create new features and build beta & product-based Amigo App.
Research Assistant: Human Analysis Lab, Michigan State University
August 2019 - present
- Federated learning for personalization and privacy
- Privacy-preserving Representation Learning in Semi-supervised Settings
Ensured fairness and protected privacy for decision-making systems by proposing an algorithm for large-scale real-world datasets; improves evaluation metrics (AUCs) by >10% than state-of-art algorithms (4 baseline projects) with paper submission to 2022 CVPR.
Implemented in real-world machine learning (textual) dataset: UCI, Law School, COMPAS.
Implemented in real-world image datasets: CelebA, Colored MNIST, CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100.
Teaching Assistant: Computer Science and Engineering Department, Michigan State University
January 2020 - present
- Teaching assistant for Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Project and assignment assistance
Research Assistant: Fraunhofer, USA
January 2019 - July 2019
Research Area: Simulation for power electronics (IGBT)
- Led project of establishment of efficient Schottky diodes for real-world AC/DC Power Converters implemented by MATLAB simulation; oral paper accepted to 2019 MRS Fall Meeting.
Research Assistant: Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute, State Grid Corporation of China
July 2017 - September 2018
- Proposed a circulating current injection method in Shetland project with UK national grid committing to powering 10 million UK homes; conducted data analysis in Origin, modeling, and programming with MATLAB to reduce transformer capacity to 30% ($2K each) with oral paper accepted to IEEE ITNEC, 2019.
Executive Consultant: HRNetOne
March 2017 - June 2017
- Execute Consultant in Investment and Pharmacy area consulting 100 candidates and 6 candidates reaches to the final round.
Research Assistant: Transmission Branch, State Grid Corporation of China
September 2016 - March 2017
- Responsible for modeling, programming, and data analysis in project Zhangbei GridStability.
Residence Assistant: Duke Kunshan University
February 2016 - June 2016
- Arranged weekly communication/social activities no limited to lecture, festival activities for 500+ international students; received the outstanding resident assistant award.
Intern: Transformation Branch, State Grid Corporation of China
November 2015 - December 2015
- Assisted in setting relay protection of Yidu and planning the UHV power grid in Yichang
Mentor: U-PLUS Education Group Co., Ltd
September 2013 - September 2014
- Teaching Mathematics and English
Publications
Xiaoxue Wang, Wesley Spain, Matthias Muehle, John Albrecht, Tim Grotjohn, TomZimmermann, ”Design of Efficient Schottky Diodes for Medium-Voltage AC/DC PowerConverters”,Material Research Society, Fall Meeting, 2019 (oral).
Tom Zimmermann, Alexis Rogien, Grace Jansen, Xiaoxue Wang, Liping Hua, YuelinWu, Matthias Muehle, Timothy A Grotjohn, Diamond Technology–Integration intoSolid-State Breakers and Biomedical Devices[J]. ECS Meeting, 2019.
Xiaoxue Wang, Ting An, Jie Yang, Chengyong Zhao, ”Optimized Design Methodof Optimum Percentage of Second-order Harmonic Circulating Current Injection andModulation Ratio Based on MMC”,IEEE 3rd Information Technology, Networking,Electronic and Automation Control Conference, 2019 (oral).
Xiaoxue Wang, Jie Yang, Chengyong Zhao, ”Weather Auto-inductive and Multifunc-tional Device”,IEEE 4th Advanced Information Technology, Electronic and Automa-tion Control Conference, 2018 (oral).
Xiaoxue Wang, Zhenxing Li, ”Comparative fault location algorithms for regionaldistribution network with distributed generator”,International Conference on Mecha-tronics, Materials, Chemistry and Computer Engineering, 2015.
Xiaoxue Wang, Pingdong Wang, Lang Shi, Jianlin Rao, Interference on Geoelectrical
Resistivity Observation from DC Power Transmission Line[J].Applied Mechanic and Materials, 2014, 672-674:1137-1142.
Extracurricular Experience
April 13 - 15, 2021
2021 AISTATS, PC member
2018, 2019
Event/activities planner: Communication trip between students from Mainland China, Taiwan, Hongkong and Macao
2017
The 72nd UN General Assembly : Youth Delegate of China
2015
Volunteer: International Union for Conservation of Nature
September 2013 - July 2014
Director: Centre for Innovation and Enterprise, China Three Gorges University
September 2013 - July 2014
Vice President/Chairman: Student Union, China Three Gorges University
-Arranged social activities monthly and coordinated welcome and graduation ceremonies for 3,000 students from 2017 to 2018; won the top10 outstanding student in CTGU (0.01%)
Languages: Python, MATLAB, R, SQL, C, C++, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Java, JavaScript, HTML, Verilog
Tools, Simulation and Software Platforms: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Numpy, Scikit-learn, Jupyter, OpenCV, CUDA,
AWS, LabVIEW, Linux, Bash, Shell, Git, Jupyter
Communication and Management
Honors and Rewards
National Third Prize for Fresh Ride Project, ENACTUS World-cup
2017
Graduate Scholarship, North China Electric Power University
2016-2019
Outstanding Exchange Student: Columbia University in the City of New York
2016
National First Prize: Siemens Cup Industrial Automation Challenge Contest
2015
National Third Prize and Championship: CCTV Star Of Outlook English Speech Contest
2014
National UHV Scholarship (Highest level scholarship in ECE in China, <0.1%), State Grid Corporation of China
2014
Top Ten Outstanding Youth, China Three Gorges University
2014
First Prize, 5th Mechanical Innovative Design Competition, China Three Gorges University
2013
First-class Scholarship (x4), China Three Gorges University
2012-2015
