Software Engineer | Machine Learning Engineer | Applied Scientist
🏢 Currently @ Thomson Reuters (Prev. @ Fraser Health Authority, Settle & SAP)
🏫 Master of Data Science in Computational Linguistics (NLP) @ UBC (Industry Partner: Boeing)
🏫 Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering & Minor in Business @ UBC
I'm an Engineer, Researcher, and Entrepreneur and I make elegant Software and AI Applications (LLM Agents, RAG, Fine-tuned Models) that are Business Objective Oriented.
- 🧠 AI Research — Focused on NLP, LLMs, Multi-Modality, and Model Reasoning and Optimization.
- 💻 Engineering Rigor — Shipped production systems at companies like Settle and SAP, where I worked on APIs, scalable backends, and NLP pipelines.
- 🌎 Entrepreneurship — Founder of 2 Canadian non-profit organizations (Campus Lightbox) and (Project Aurora Mental Health Foundation) to tackle mental health with tech-driven solutions.
- 🤝 Collaboration & Curiosity — Whether working with professors at UBC or cross-functional teams in industry, I thrive on learning and solving problems together.
🔬 Research
- 📄 Bridging Information Gaps with Comprehensive Answers: Improving the Diversity and Informativeness of Follow-Up Questions [ArXiv Preprint Link] Taekyu Kang*, Zhe Liu*, Haoyu Wang, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Vered Shwartz In Submission to ACL 2025
- 📄 (Ongoing) MLLM Hallucination
- 📄 (Ongoing) FHVC Webchat Analysis and Optimization
- 🌐 Software: React/Next.js Web Platforms, Full-Stack Applications, Internal BI Dashboards, and Ruby on Rails Microservices
- 📊 Machine Learning: RNN/CNN/LSTM, Supervised/Unsupervised Models, Polynomial Regression, Tree-based Modelsideo-to-Text), LLM Agents, RAG System
- ☁️ Large-Language Model: Encoder/Decoder Transformers, Multimodal LLM (Image/Video-to-Text), LLM Agents, RAG System
“Language is the most powerful tool humans have — I’m here to help machines use it wisely.”
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