Lee Hong Yan

Third Year Data Science Student in University of Malaya

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I am an inquisitive yet optimistic individual who is currently doing my fifth semester of Computer Science (Data Science) course in the number one and most prestigious university in Malaysia, University of Malaya (UM). I transitioned into data science from a pure science background in secondary school and matriculation. I joined tech-related clubs in UM during my second year to give out the best of mine to the juniors so that they will not feel lost as I have experienced especially during the first 2 semesters in UM. I am constantly seeking for exciting and adventurous challenges while at the same time consistently exploring new knowledge not limited to technology for self-improving.

Experience

Technical Helpdesk Support

Virtual Patient, University of Malaya eHealth Initiative, University of Malaya | Sep 2021 - PRESENT

Standby to assist users (lecturers of Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya) on questions or technical issues about Virtual Patient, a website built to simulate clinical assessments of the students in Faculty of Medicine.

Data Visualization Team Member/Software Tester

Covid Immunisation Task Force, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) | Mar 2021 - PRESENT

Assisted in researching and developing visualization dashboard of vaccination centers information using Apache Superset.

Software Tester

Virtual Patient, University of Malaya eHealth Initiative, University of Malaya | Nov 2020 - Jul 2021

Tested and identified possible bugs not identified by the developers by figuring out edge cases and helped in managing as well as sorting out failed test cases for re-implementation by the developers using Trello.

Production Executive

Him Heang Sdn. Bhd. | Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

Contributed in verifying the account records as well as partnered with full time workers in the production of biscuits.

Daycare Tutor

Smart Learning Tuition Centre | Jan 2018 - Mar 2018

Assisted the teacher in creating daily lesson plans as well as collected and marked daily assignments of the students.

Leadership and Volunteerism

Secretary

UMHackathon 2021 | Mar 2021 - PRESENT

Design a professional HTML email to attract the attention of public university undergraduates to join our national level hackathon.

Secretary

University of Malaya Computer Society (PEKOM) | Jan 2021 - PRESENT

Held secretariat positions for programs organized by PEKOM and also events in the faculty as well as oversaw all student events under PEKOM.

Activity Bureau

University of Malaya Eight Residential College Student Facilitators | Sep 2021 - Oct 2021

Planned and executed programs such as A Night with Residential College Management, Alumni Sharing Session, Students' Activity Carnival and Closing Ceremony for college residents along their orientation weeks

Web/App Division

Developer Student Club (DSC), University of Malaya | Nov 2020 - Oct 2021

Conducted 4 sessions of Kotlin Study Jam to introduce basic mobile app development using Kotlin programming to the student community.

Multimedia Department

35th Anniversary Celebration of University of Malaya Chinese Society | Nov 2020 - Jul 2021

Produced publicity videos to raise the public awareness on people with rare diseases.

Human Resource Department

Penang Chinese New Year Celebration (Miao Hui) 2021 | Mar 2020 - Mar 2021

Approached nearly 500 volunteers in total with 3 teammates to know their strong points and wills before distributing them into suitable departments

Publicity Department

National Secondary School Chinese Society Camp | Oct 2019 - Apr 2020

Designed promotional posters and contacted teacher advisors to broadcast information about the camp

Sponsorship Department

Unmasked Reality (UNREAL) | Oct 2019 - Mar 2020

Secured sponsorship in the form of cash from Midea and in the form of benefit-in-kind from OYO for our outdoor event which aimed to challenge the physical and mental strength of the participants and promote communication and teamwork among the participants.

Programme Department

Penang Chinese New Year Celebration (Miao Hui) 2020 | Mar 2020 - Mar 2021

Contacted nearly 10 organizations and reacted spontaneously to any change in performance sequence on the event day.

Projects

Face Mask Detection (Deep Learning Classification)

Detect and draw a bounding box together with the confidence probability on whether a person is wearing a mask or not in real time

Indeed Job Scraping (Web Scraping)

Scrape Indeed job data based on job position and output in a CSV file for easier filtering.

Fake News Detection (Deep Learning Classification)

Achieve nearly 1.00 in precision, recall and F1 score in classifying real or fake news using Sequential API in Keras including the Embedding and LSTM Layer.

Penguins Species Classification (Classification)

Build a random forest model for predicting penguins species and save into a pickle file. Then, read in the pickle file and predict penguins species based on user input (slider or file uploading).

IMDB Movie Reviews Sentiment Analysis (Classification)

Compared the performance of two machine learning models (logistic regression and multinomial naive bayes) and achieved roughly 86% accuracy and F1 score in predicting new movie review sentiments.

Life Expectancy (Regression)

Created a shiny web app in R to predict life expectancy of people based on their personal (e.g. BMI) and country factors (e.g. Adult Mortality).

Skills

Languages/Frameworks

SQL
R
Python
Javascript
Java
React
Vue

Tools/Software

Tableau
Power BI
IBM SPSS
Microsoft Excel
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Photoshop

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science (Data Science), CGPA 3.99

University of Malaya

September 2019 - Expected February 2023

Pure Science, CGPA 4.00

Negeri Sembilan Matriculation College

2018 - 2019

Science Major, SPM 8A+, 1A, 1A-

SMJK Chung Ling Pulau Pinang

2013 - 2017

Subjects Taken

Data AnalyticsOperating SystemsNetwork Technology FoundationBasic Real Estate Development and ManagementProject ManagementDatabaseProbability and StatisticsSoftware ModellingData StructureMachine LearningIntroduction to Data ScienceFundamentals of ProgrammingInformation Systems

Languages

ChineseEnglishMalayHokkien

Awards and Honors

Dean's List

Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), University of Malaya

Semester I - PRESENT

1st Runner-Up in Dean's Cup Coding League

Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), University of Malaya

February 2020

2nd Runner-Up in Interblock Badminton Competiton

Negeri Sembilan Matriculation College

Jamuary 2019

Judges' Special Award in Best National Matriculation College Dikir Barat Competition

Kelantan Matriculation College

July 2018

Interests

Video EditingSoccerFinance/EconomyBadminton