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Jason Ding

Loves brain teasers, coding, and math

University of California, Berkeley
Majors: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science + Business Administration (M.E.T. Program)
Expected Graduation: May 2024
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Experiences


Jane Street Capital

Role: Quantitative Trading Intern

May 2023 - August 2023
  • Developed a new trading strategy in the US Equities market by researching international market signals.
  • Enhanced forecasts of options volatility and created a model that surpassed implied market prediction’s through analyzing and researching different predictors that occur earlier in the day.

Amazon AWS Lambda

Role: Software Development Intern

May 2022 - August 2022
  • Developed a full-stack project using Route53, Cloudfront, API Gateway, S3, Lambda, and DynamoDB AWS services.
  • Created a tool that decreased incoming support tickets by 90% and support response wait times by 95%.
  • Coded using React, Typescript, and Java to create CDKs, front-end website, and AWS lambda functions.

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Role: Project Lead and Key Computational Linguistics Programmer

May 2020 - Jan 2023

Built an AI neural network NLP translator used by over 5,000 people

  • Planned, designed, and followed through on procedures to create a web crawler that visited over 6 million relevant websites and a high-quality Interlingua translator with Python, BeautifulSoup, PyTorch, and CUDA.
  • Created the Interlingua Corpus Project, a corpus of over 1.2 million quality-controlled Interlingua sentences (a 4000%+ increase to the second largest Interlingua corpus) by analyzing Interlingua sentences and developing a web crawler. Also collected 80,000+ parallel Interlingua-English sentences and other useful data.
  • Built and optimized the first ever public and open source Online Interlingua-English Translator, which scored a 42.54 BLEU score (representing a translator with high quality translations according to Google) by designing and implementing techniques such as normalization and proper noun replacement.
  • Learned to develop websites in React; use git, Jupyter, Google Colab, remote servers; deploy Python on Heroku.

  • Visit the Interlingua Corpus
    Try out the Interlingua-English Translator

Optical Radiology Lab at Washington University

Role: Lab Assistant and Computer Programmer

May 2019 - August 2019
  • Developed programs in MATLAB and Python to analyze and visualize the growth and motion of tumors in mice over time.
  • Created an application that reduced the daily post-scan analysis time of optical imaging data from 1 hour to 2-3 minutes, greatly increasing the efficiency of data analysis for the lab researchers.
  • Built and analyzed over 50 visual 3D models using MATLAB to highlight where tumors exist inside a mouse's body.

Clubs


Machine Learning At Berkeley

Projects Officer

Aug 2023 - Present
  • Worked on a time series, forecasting, and NLP summarization project with Arcus Project to deteect and explain outlier events.
  • Sourced projects from companies for ML@B members to gain industry experience.

Traders at Berkeley

Jan 2023 - Present
  • Coordinated and managed the Berkeley Trading Competition that hosted students from all over the country.

Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research

Undergraduate Researcher

Janurary 2022 - December 2022
  • Researched topics with Prof. Dawn Song related to safety, security, and privacy in reinforcement learning and deep learning alongside adversarial robustness, anomaly detection, and data augmentation using Python and PyTorch.
  • Collaborated to create an educational course that teaches machine learning safety

Visit the machine learning safety website

Machine Learning at Berkeley (GREP)

August 2021 - December 2021
  • Studied topics in NLP, computer vision, and reinforcement learning. Researched and presented how GPT-3 works.
  • Optimized a RNN machine learning translator by implementing techniques such as word tokenizing and unknown word prediction, increasing the BLEU score of the language translator by 50%.

Ladue Horton Watkins High School Python Club

Founder and President

The club's purpose is to introduce schoolmates to the joys of computer science through collaborative coding projects using the Python programming language. I teach club members using self-made lesson plans, design and plan semester-long projects such as a Connect-Four-playing AI bot, and manage mini-hackathons.