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Name | Li Xuan (Alex) Peng |
alexpeng517@gmail.com | |
Url | https://alexpeng517.github.io/ |
Education
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2020.09 - 2024.06 Zongli, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
National Central University, Taiwan
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS)
GPA / Average Score : 4.1/4.3; 3.9/4; 91/100
Publications
Work
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2023.11 - 2024.09 Research Assistant
Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
Design a novel algorithm for safeguarding images from being unauthorized editing and micmicking via Diffusion Models; Design a novel algorithms for generating aesthetic QR code via training-free diffusion-based method.
- Complete two research projects as co-first author and co-second author respectively.
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2023.07 - 2023.10 Research Intern
Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
Study adversarial attack and defense methods for computer vision models; Study principles of generative models.
- Study conditional diffusion model behaviors under different conditions.
- Design and implement image intellectual property protection algorithms against malicious usage of Diffusion Models.
- Establish research workflow integrating with Weight&Bias and Notion project management for our research teams.
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2021.04 - 2023.09 Network Administrator and Web Developer
EECS Department Office, National Central University
Responsible for department website maintainance and web app developement.
- Develop an automating graduation eligibility reviewer for the EECS Department Office via Chrome Extension and React.js.
- Maintain legacy department website.
- Build a new department website using WordPress and Linux VMs
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2020.12 - 2021.08 Fullstack Web Developer
Development and IT Team, Freshman Website Development Program, Office of Student Affairs, National Central University
Build an orientation website for freshmen coming to National Central University (3000+ Users)
- Develop NCUTUBE webpage with interative video playlists, timeline system and voting system, using Vue.js, Nuxt.js and MongoDB.
Awards
- 2023
Second Place in TSMC Group, 11th Hsinchu X Meichu Hackathon
National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) & National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)
Build an AI Cloud Native solution for intelligent X-ray security checking, semiconductor machine maintainance forecasting and employee attendance monitoring systems. Train a YOLO-based detector for prohibited items, achieving rank 1st performance in the leaderboard; Develop a trustworthy interactive natural-language querying system for employee attendance monitoring and automating monthly report generation, using LLMs, PandasAI, and Prompt-engineering; Train timeseries forecasting models to predict machine maintainance date;.
- 2023
The Dr. Chu Shun‑yi Zyxel Scholarship (Merit‑Based)
National Central University
The most prestigious academic honor for undergraduates at National Central University. Among 3 awardees in the College of EECS.
- 2023
Excellent Students Scholarship (Merit‑Based)
National Central University
The most prestigious academic honor of the department. Among 2 awardees in the Interdisciplinary Program of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.
- 2022
Excellent Club of the Year
National Central University
Awarded 2nd place in the academic category during annual evaluations as club director.
Volunteer
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2021.08 - 2022.08 Zongli, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Core Team Member, Instructor
Google Developer Student Club, National Central University
Core team member for Google Developer Group student branch at National Central University, lecturing and advocating Machine Learning topics.
- Host workshop of Introduction to Natural Language Processing on Google Cloud Platform
- Host workshop of Introduction to VertexAI of Google Cloud Platform
- Advocate Machine Learning Study Jams hosted by Google Developer Group
Projects
- - Present
Brain MRI Tumor Segmentation via Segment Anything Foundation Model
Adapting and fine‑tuning Segment Anything Model(SAM) to BraTS brain tumor segmentation task. Reached average 0.72 DICE Score with 12% improvement compared to the original model even if fine‑tuning on a small dataset (3000 image‑mask pairs).
- Term project of BrainHack School 2023, University of Montreal and co-hosts by NCU (Grade: A+, 100/100)
- Segment Anything Model
- Foundation Model
- MRI
- BraTS
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RBFNN Self‑driving Car Simulation
A self‑driving car simulation in 2D field using Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN). Implemented Gradient Descent and Pseudo Inverse to solve the optimization problem.
- Term project of *Neural Networks* course (Grade: A+, 90/100)
- Implemented using plain Python and Numpy
- - Present
Hopfield Network Implementation
A Hopfield network that could restore states corrupted by random noise. Implemented and investigated the relation between input sample quantity and network capacity, supporting the speculations via theories proposed by Geoffrey Hinton.
- Term project of *Neural Networks* course (Grade: A+, 90/100)
- Implemented using plain Python and Numpy
- - Present
Wild Cat Breeds Classifier
Recognize common cat breeds in Taiwan, especially being able to identify endangered leopard cats. Reached 0.88 F1‑Score on average.
- Term project of *Introduction to Computer Vision and its Application* course (Grade: A+, 99/100).
- Tensorflow
- Transfer Learning
- EfficientNetV2
- - Present
Camera Depth of Field Simulator
Calculate Depth of the Field(DoF) and simulate lens bokeh. Using a pre‑trained model to separate out the background, then generate simulated bokeh of background using Gaussian blur parameterized by calculated DoF.
- Term project of *Introduction to Computer Science II* (Grade: A+, 97/100)
- OpenCV
- Java
- MODNet pre‑trained model
Skills
Programming Language | |
Python | |
C++ | |
Java | |
JavaScript | |
TypeScript |
Frameworks & Libraries | |
PyTorch | |
Numpy | |
OpenCV | |
TensorFlow | |
Vue.js | |
Nuxt.js | |
React.js |
Project Management | |
Weight&Bias | |
Notion | |
Git |
Others | |
MongoDB | |
Google Cloud Platform |
Languages
Chinese, Traditional | |
Native speaker |
English | |
Intermediate, TOEFL 93 (R26, L26, S21, W20) |
Extracurricular
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2021.08 - 2022.08 Zongli, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Director
Photography Club, National Central University
Lead organizer of the Photography club at NCU
- Give lectures on technical knowledges of cameras and imaging system
- Curate a photography exhibition on campus
- Host a workshop with international photography contest awardee
- Invited as the student representative jury of the school photography competition
- Interviewed by university journalists and published in the university journal.
Interests
Photography | |
still photography | |
filmmaking | |
astrophotography | |
aerial photography |
Mountaineering |
Coffee | |
Specialty Pour-Over | |
Single Origin Espresso |
Cooking |
Cycling |