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Kevin Tan
|  kstan@ucsd.edu |  kevinstan.github.io |  kevinstan |  kevinstan

Summary
I am broadly interested in machine perception and reasoning inspired by cognitive science, focusing on compositionality and causality. Key
areas include machine learning, computer vision, computational photography & intelligent cameras, natural language processing and speech,
and AR/VR as a platform for learning flexible models that exhibit human-level understanding.

Education
University of California, San Diego San Diego, CA
B.S. IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE WITH SPECIALIZATION IN MACHINE LEARNING, MINORS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS Sep 2015 - Jun 2019
• Cognitive Science Honors Program (with Distinction)

Work/Research Experience
Machine Learning, Perception, and Cognition Lab San Diego, CA
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER | SUPERVISOR: ZHUOWEN TU Sep 2018 - present
• Investigated various architectures for generative query networks (GQN) combining computer vision and natural language processing
• Verified and reproduced benchmark results for GQN with TensorFlow implementation
• Used Unity ML-Agents toolkit to developed novel dataset of complex scenes for further research in 3D scene understanding
IBM Accessibility Research Austin, TX
RESEARCH INTERN | SUPERVISOR: THOMAS BRUNET Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
• Developed an automated classification system to verify and fix accessibility issues of web applications
• Performed web scraping and database curation for maintaining a large-scale dataset of websites (Node.js, Cypress, Selenium)
• Assisted in designing a rigorous user study to compare our automated labeling of accessibility landmarks to those of human experts
• Presented results and findings to an audience of 30+ accessibility experts (45 min. talk followed by 15 min. Q&A)
• Resulted in successful patent submission (U.S. Patent Application P201806825)
Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience San Diego, CA
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER | SUPERVISOR: SHAWN HSU Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
• Utilized deep convolutional neural networks for early prediction of REM sleep behavior disorder with multimodal polysomnography (time-series
sleep data recording brain waves, oxygen levels, heart rate and breathing, leg and eye movements)
• Refactored large code base from Theano to TensorFlow (300+ lines)

Teaching Experience
Intro to Machine Learning | COGS118B San Diego, CA
INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
• Topics: unsupervised learning, density estimation, spectral clustering, principal component analysis, expectation maximization
• Assisted in preparing programming assignments in Python/MATLAB and grading exams
• Held weekly discussion sections and office hours to provide hands-on help for programming assignments and final project advice
UCSD Teaching and Learning Commons San Diego, CA
SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION LEADER (CALCULUS TUTOR) Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
• Directed calculus tutoring sessions for ~ 10 students, 3 times a week

Awards
Provost Honors, Awarded to high-achieving undergraduates of Warren College who have demonstrated
2018
academic excellence
2016 Finalist, Teradata Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Services Hackathon (link)

Other
Coursework: Statistical Learning, Advanced Machine Learning Methods, Deep Learning for Natural Language Understanding, Data Science, Prob-
ability Theory, Numerical Analysis, Advanced Data Structures, Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Software Engineering
Skills: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Python/NumPy, C++, MATLAB, JavaScript/Node.js, Unity, Unix, Git, HTML/CSS, LATEX
Blog: Technical blog with open-sourced machine learning, programming, and cognitive science projects (link)

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