Zequn Yu

Software Engineer

About

I am a software engineer at Amazon, Santa Monica, currently building blocks for the Amazon Alexa App (iOSAndroid).

Prior to joining Amazon, I was a master student at the University of Southern California. I was also a student worker at USC Robotic Embedded Systems Lab, where I primarily worked on an open source project garage.

I received my Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notthingham with First Class Honours. At Nottingham, I worked on the Travel Dashboard project for Atos UK, supervised by Professor Natasa Milic-Frayling. I was also affiliated with UoN Mixed Reality Lab under Dr. Max L. Wilson.

Previously, I interned with Citrix Systems (2020), WorthNote (2018), CAS (2017) and GTCOM (2016). I enjoy programming in Python, JavaScript and Haskell.

Projects

cmdict

Python

cmdict is a command-line dictionary toolset. It currently supports multiple exciting features such as offline English-to-Chinese translation, and extraction of highlighted words with Mac OS preview specified colors in PDF files.

NBA Analysis

ReactMongoDB

With the use of d3.js, 6 interactive charts are built for showing NBA game performance in 2018-2019 season. This project also demonstrates the practice of serverless to integrate Next.js  and MongoDB.

garage

USC RESL

Python

garage is an open source Python toolkit for developing and evaluating reinforcement learning algorithms, and an accompanying library of state-of-the-art implementations built using that toolkit. garage supports both TensorFlow and PyTorch.

uRank

PythonReact

uRank is a project to collect, process and visualize data from QSUS NewsTimes and ARWU world university rankings in 2015-2019. Data is collected by the Python web crawling framework Scrapy and website is built by ReactChart.js and Bulma.

UG Thesis

Mixed Reality Lab

PythonMatlab

My undergraduate dissertation: Data Collection and Analysis of the Linkage between Mental Workload and Spontaneous Facial Expression on Pattern Recognition Task scored 80+. Supervised by Dr. Max L. Wilson.

Travel Dashboard

ATOS UK

JavaMySQL

We built a JavaFx desktop software, which takes the raw data of different Excel file schemas available from Atos, perform analytics, and produce a summary report to present the information in a consumable format. Supervised by Professor Natasa Milic-Frayling.

Diamond Hunter

Java

A 2D-RPG game built by JavaFx. The user controls our hero to collect all 15 diamonds to win. To achieve the goal, the player need to find item axe and boat as well. A map viewer is provided to overview the whole map and items position can be set up by user themselves.

2021  🍭  Zequn Yu