Ellie Li

Master | Data Science, WPI

Work Experience

WPI, Maths

Worcester, MA
Research Assistant
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
  • Employed neural networks to do function approximation and parameter estimation of partial differential functions
  • Wrote python script to find lower and upper bounds and neural importance of feedforward neural networks which fit Genz integrand families functions and visualized the results

iFlytek

Hefei, China
NLP Intern
May 2018 - Aug 2018
  • Worked in the auto-grading group and aimed to build model to automatically label the role of sentences, such as topic sentence, in TOEFL writings
  • Extracted and validated candidate features of sentences in TOEFL writings with experts
  • Retrained pre-trained Word2Vec and Glove models for sentence embedding by adding our corpus
  • Built a model by combining bidirectional LSTM and CRF with TensorFlow to conduct sequence tagging on TOEFL writings and improve the test accuracy to 0.71

    • Westwin

    Shanghai, China
    Data Engineer Intern
    Jan 2016 - July 2016
  • Involved into Store Locator project, wrote a web crawler with Python to automatically collect basic information of US retailers and archived the information with a proprietary database
  • Participated into ShoppingSite project, checked and updated goods information with SQL queries

    • Education

    MS in Data Science

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Aug 2017 - May 2019
    GPA: 3.72/4.0

    BS in Mgt. Information System

    Shanghai University
    Aug 2012 - Jun 2016
    GPA: 3.45/4.0