Jeffrey Xu

Did market entry research for a Fortune 500 Company. Created slides with relevant consumer and product information and presented with strategic recommendations. Conducted research on competitors and strategic partnerships for maximizing consumer acquisition with an emphasis on sustainability.

My role is consulting and creating software for an Chicago-based educational technology startup. Using various Natural Language Processing frameworks in R and Python, we try to analyze student writing performance and optimize tailored learning using AI and Deep Learning.

Created NLP-based Python machine learning model with 90% identification accuracy. Built automated highlighting tool hosted using AWS Lambda and Sagemaker for deploying ML models saved in Hugging Face. Trained with BERT, bag of words, and word2vec models on data queried using SQL with 87% validated accuracy on identifying CERCA elements. Built front-end testing API using React.js deployed with Chalice.

Developed and taught introductory yet comprehensive ML/AI curriculum to high schoolers over two 10-day programs, with linear and logistic regression, sentiment analysis, convolutional neural networks, and computer vision in Google Colaboratory using TensorFlow libraries, Pandas, NumPy, Sci-kit Learn, and more.

Researched blockchain technology and its applications in cryptocurrency. Worked to create a coin to represent underlying real estate assets to streamline investing and membership, researching necessary steps for an ICO. Created Excel sheet with embedded stochastic calculus formulas to model price change of cryptocurrency for potential transactions and payments in coin.

Developed responsive homepage, module structure, and interactive sidebar using React.js. Created REST APIs to take GET and POST requests to interact with backend databases. Altered CSS to match company colors and created modules to test requests and functionality. Did target consumer research for startup. Centralizing, personalizing, and equating online education through AI and UX design Creating and designing the frontend of the website using React.js and other Node frameworks Incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs via the Venture Program

Created, pitched, and advertised a 15-week curriculum designed to teach students subjects across math, chemistry, physics, biology, and earth science. Integrated a "bot" on Discord from GitHub to mimic the real Science Bowl competition rules, and also coached students on buzzing and answering strategy. Taught over 40 students throughout 7 different sessions, 10 hours/week for 15 weeks.

Concurrent Masters, Statistics

Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra