Shu-Fei (Sofina) Yang

Research Assistant

About

I am an aspiring computational scientist passionate about applying my technical skills to advance neuroscience research. Eager to explore diverse areas within computer engineering, I aim to leverage my knowledge to create meaningful, real-world impact. As a college student, I actively engage in engineering project teams and professional societies, continuously sharpening my technical and collaborative skills. I am passionate about computer vision, as I utilize it for both the autonomous underwater vehicle project with my team, and the computational neuroscience research I am working on. Since my freshman year, I have conducted research across multiple disciplines to broaden my perspective, work alongside inspiring researchers, and discover innovative ways to integrate computation with all different possibilities.

Country

United States

City

San Diego

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

X-ray Spectroscopy, Thinking Skills, Ubuntu, Underwater Photography, Visual SLAM, Eye Tracking, Multilingual Communication, GitHub, Data Structures, C++, Computer Programming, Mentoring, Research Skills, Teamwork, Localization Testing, 3D Printing, AUV, Public Speaking, Jupyter, 團隊領導

Experience

Research Assistant

Kennedy Lab at the Dorris Neuroscience Center

2025-10 - Present · 1 yr

Processing spectral features of mouse ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) with DeepSqueak Analyzing USV data and their correlation with the behavior and neural activities of mice Assessing USV recordings through converting the information into spectrograms

Software Engineer

Yonder Deep

2024-10 - 2026-3 · 1 yr 6 mos

Developing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) for oceanographic research focusing on glacier monitoring Implemented simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm for route planning for autonomous underwater vehicles Configuring underwater camera with existing libraries for onboarding application to current AUV Developing underwater obstacles detecting model with OpenCV

Software Engineer

The Barking Dog - Pioneer of DXP

2025-7 - 2025-8 · 2 mos

Designed and conducted the interface of a multilingual speech emotion recognition system Developing customer tracking system utilizing YOLOv8 and Google Gemini for image summary Implemented a chatbot system with memory function using LangGraph, FastAPI, and Streamlit

Software Engineer

UCSD Triton UAS

2024-10 - 2025-4 · 7 mos

Developing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for Student UAS Competition held by the AUVSI Seafarer Chapter Devised unit tests for localization functions in C for onboard computer (OBC) of unmanned aerial system Performed web development for ground control system (GCS) of unmanned aerial vehicle

學生

National Experimental High School

2021-9 - 2024-6 · 2 yrs 10 mos

台灣 Taiwan 新竹市

Exemplary Student - ranked 1st in class and demonstrated outstanding leadership character through positions as Class President and Student Union Executive. Co-Founder of the Maker Research Club.

實習學生

National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center

2022-9 - 2023-10 · 1 yr 2 mos

台灣 Taiwan 新竹市

Conducted research on AI models for nanoscale X-Ray microscopy image background removal and presented in the 29th NSRRC Users' Conference. Implemented an image alignment algorithm with Python for Transmission X-Ray Microscope.

Research Assistant

National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2022-9 - 2023-10 · 1 yr 2 mos

Developed GAN-based AI models for background removal for transmission X-Ray microscope (TXM) images Programmed image alignment algorithms and data simulation application for transmission X-Ray microscope in Python