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<h3 style="text-align: center;font-size:20px;padding: 10px;padding-bottom: 20px;color:gray;">Professional and Extracurricular Activities</h3>

<article id="2023-curve-contributor">
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           alt="Curve Contributor" />
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    <h3>2023 Open Source Project Contributor — Curve</h3>
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      I have been a contributor to <a href="https://github.com/opencurve/curve">Curve</a>, an open source project hosted by the CNCF foundation.
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      Curve is all about delivering a high-performance and fault-tolerant distributed storage system.
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      It has gained significant popularity with over 2.1K stars as of October 18, 2023.
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      Here are my contributions so far:
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      - <a href="https://github.com/opencurve/curve/issues/2505">Separated several massive unit test cases, expanded test coverage, and created more than 50 unit tests for crucial modules</a>
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      - <a href="https://github.com/opencurve/curve/issues/2244">Designed new user interfaces for listing and canceling warm-up tasks</a>
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      - Updated and improved outdated project documentation
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<article id="2022-cc-ta">
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           alt="The Cloud Computing Course" />
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    <h3>2022 Fall Teaching Assistant</h3>
    <p>I served as a Teaching Assistant in the following courses:
        <li><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~msakr/15619-f22/">Cloud Computing</a><br /> 
          - Instructed by Prof. Majd F. Sakr (graduate-level).<br />
          - One of the most popular and challenging courses and time-consuming (30 hours+ of work expected per week) in the CS department.<br />
          - I am responsible for the weekly office hours and a major owner of the Spark Pagerank project<br />
          - The project I owned earned 73.5% of the student's satisfaction with the project writeup and 97.1% positive feedback on overall learning.<br />
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<article id="2022-jisell">
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           alt="The Jisell Team photos at San Jose" />
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           alt="The Jisell Team photos at Alex apartment" />
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    <h3>2022 Jisell: Voluntary Software Engineer</h3>
    <p>I joined a pre-startup when studying in the CMU, and we developed an <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jisell/id1601544104" target="_blank">iOS app</a> that got selected for VentureBridge Summer Cohort.
      When I joined the startup, all the team members had no previous experience developing an iOS app, but we ended up being able to pick the skill up. Also, we closely worked with the product team to prioritize features like Wallet, AR display, and Gift Card Visual Detection.
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      <p>
        <li>[<a href="https://www.cmu.edu/iii/about/news/2022/iii-alumni-team-startup-selected.html" target="_blank">VentureBridge Summer Cohort news by CMU III</a>]</br>
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<article id="2019-aiccc-award">
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           alt="2019 AICCC conference, I was photoed with the other author and a Kobe University professor." />
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           alt="Presenting my work and the core of concept." />
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    <h3>2019 ACM AICCC Conference</h3>
    <p>I was honored to be one of the recipients from 2019 ACM AICCC conference, which was held in Kobe, Tokyo. As one of the recipients, I was invited to the conference to give a speech and present my ideas. Besides, I was inspired by exchanging my ideas with other excellent recipients who did similar messages-analyzing researches.
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<article id="2018-tm-ta">
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           alt="The instructed textbook in the Text Mining" />
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    <h3>2018 Teaching Assistant</h3>
    <p>I served as a Teaching Assistant in the following courses:
        <li>Information Retrieval and Text Mining<br /> 
           - Instructed by Prof. Chien-Chin Chen (graduate-level).<br />
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<article id="2018-china-unicom-internship">
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           alt="A photograph taken by media. I was the man in a ivory white T-shirt." />
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    <h3>2018 China Unicom Joint Research Internship</h3>
    <p>I joined a co-research program in the China, and I make a research about pedestrian detection by cooperating with other PHD and Master interns from well known universities - Tsinghua University and Beijing Normal University. I developed a proof of concept model during several weeks and designed a data preprocessing tool to make annotated images. I learned a lot by exploring unfamiliar research fields and also gained precious experences about cooperating with different culture people.
    This program was reported on Finger Media and ETtoday, two of the well-known media companies in Taiwan.</p>
    <p>(News articles for this program written in Chinese):
      <li>[<a href="http://www.touchmedia.tw/?p=632445">news by Finger Media</a>]</br>
      <li>[<a href="https://www.ettoday.net/news/20180809/1231075.htm">news by ETtoday</a>] [<a href="doc/ettoday_news.pdf">backup PDF</a>]
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<article id="2017-fintech-contest">
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           alt="Picture taken when we were awarded as the best team out of over 50 Participating teams." />
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           alt="A certificate of best team award." />
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    <h3>2017 SCSB-Fintech Award Ceremony</h3>
    <p>I participated a fintech contest with other graduate students. We first discussed with bank employees and knew banks' pain points. Then we found a workable solution by taking costs and user acceptance into account. After serveral months, we developed a spendings tracking ChatBot to provide a much more convenient serivce for users and made banks able to know users credibility level by analyzing daily spendinds. We ended up claiming the best team award among 56 participating teams from all universities in Taiwan. </p>
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<article id="2016-firefighter">
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           alt="Helping put out a severe wild fire, I was the man in a white shirt, dragging the pumping tunnel." />
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    <h3>2016 Alternative Military Service — Firefighter</h3>
    <p>I used to serve as a firefighter, which is an alternarive way to fulfill the mandatory militart service, from 2016 to 2017.
       During the service, I got a Emergency Medical Technician License and carried out hundreds of emergency medical cases and fire related accidents. I sometimes encountered serious car accidents and needed to quickly evaluate health condition of wounded people, then gave them some basic treatment, like: stoping bleeding, on a bumping ambulance. </p>
    <p>(News articles about a severe wildfire, which I help to put out):
      <li>[<a href="https://www.setn.com/News.aspx?NewsID=238846">news by SETN Media</a>]</br>
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<article id="2016-womany-hackerthon">
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           alt="A group photo of every hackathon participants" />
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    <h3>2016 Hackathon Campaign</h3>
    <p>I challenged myself by participating a 24-hours hackathon which focused on gender issues, because I would like to explore the possibility of applications on solving social problems. I cooperated with other 4 participants with different backgrounds and developed an application, providing anonymous service for victims who suffered from sex bully. It is an amazing journey when we dedicated to using our abilites and developed an application to solve problems we faced in the real society. </p>
    

    <li>[<a href="https://youtu.be/mxjKdlKBoek">Recording of hackathon on YouTube</a>]</br>
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<article id="2014-badminton-leader">
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           alt="An alumni group photo after a friendly competition."/>
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    <h3>2013 Leader of Badminton Team</h3>
    <p>From 2013 to 2014, I served as the leader of badminton team of MIS Department, leading over 20 team members to develop their badminton skills and encouraging them to participate game matches in the school. Besides, to strength members' connection with each other, I organized a matchup event, inviting over 50 graduates alumni to come and have fun. 
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           alt="Guiding children to cooperate by playing traditional board games. I was the man on the bottom right corner." />
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           alt="Morning exercise." />
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           alt="Playing with children and knowing them more." />
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           alt="Gathering children before lunch." />
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    <h3>2012 Student Volunteer</h3>
    <p>I joined the NCCU International Volunteer Association from September 2012 to September 2013, and served as a Student Volunteer in July 2013 to launch a 5-day Charity Camp for countryside elementary schools. In this event, I designed a variety of courses and taught disadvantaged children to solve problems from different perspectives.</p>

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<article id="2008-hand-club">
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           alt="Picture taken when we answered a curtain call in the joint performance." />
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      <img src="image/activities/CLUB2.jpg"
           alt="Picture for our opening performance for the joint performance." />
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    <h3>2008 Director of Event Planning</h3>
    <p>In 2008 when I was a senior high school student, I served as Director of Event Planning in the Sign Language Club at the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University. Specifically, I was in charge of coordinating with Club representatives from other senior high schools. I also organized a joint performance with 31 senior high schools for more than 1,300 audience.</p>
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