艾怡華

Eva Virginia Arévalo Rivara

Hsinchu City, 300 · Taiwan · 93.evar@gmail.com

Passionate Software Reasearch and Development Engineer striving to incorporate Machine Learning to the workflow of real-world tasks and add value to software by improving on its performance, efficiency and expediteness. Hands-on experience implementing Machine Learning solutions for different areas, including Facial Recognition, Face Attribute Prediction, Object Detection and Tracking, Dynamic Pricing, Skin Texture Analysis, etc. Experience developping end-to-end pipelines for machine learning solutions including: data collection using web crawler tools (Selenium), model training using Machine Learning/Deep Learning, integration into real-time applications and deployment into different platforms (REST service through Docker container, python packages or scripts, compiled shared .so libraries). Experience managing and deploying to edge devices (Raspberry-Pi, Jetson Nano, RK3288). Experience in the following areas: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Data Analysis.

1+ year experience as a Software Reasearch and Development Engineer in the following areas: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Software Development, Data Mining.

3+ years experience developping in Ubuntu.


Education

National Tsing Hua University

Ms. in Computer Science
Hsinchu City, Taiwan
Research work performed under the guidance of Prof. Chen Yi-Hsin. Focused on the application of Machine Learning techniques for the task of eatly prediction of Manic Episodes in Bipolar users in Social Media Platforms.

GPA: 4.27

September 2018 - August 2020

National Tsing Hua University

Bs. in Computer Science
Hsinchu City, Taiwan


September 2014 - June 2018

National Taiwan Normal University

Intensive Mandarin Studies
Taipei City, Taiwan


September 2013 - August 2014

Skills

Programming Languages


C, C++, Python, SQL, Java, MATLAB, Verilog

Machine Learning & AI

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Data Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Computer Vision
  • CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs, GANs
  • Clustering
  • Classification / Linear Regression
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Genetic Algorithms (GA)
  • Pattern Recognition

ML/DL Tools & Frameworks

  • Tensorflow / Keras / Tensorhub
  • Pytorch
  • Deep contextual representations (ELMo, BERT)
  • Scikit-learn(SkLearn) / Scikit-image(SkImage)
  • OpenCV

Miscellaneous

  • Ubuntu
  • MySQL / PostGreSQL / mongoDB
  • Github
  • Docker
  • Azure CLI
  • CUDA
  • Arduino
  • JNI


Web Development

  • HTML5 / CSS / JavaScript
  • NodeJs / Flask
  • React / Bootrstrap
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, S3, RDS Services
  • Web visualizations with d3.js & Neo4j

Work Experience

CiCS (Coretronic Intelligent Cloud Service)

Software R&D Engineer
Hsinchu City, Taiwan

Software R&D Engineer, with a focus on Computer Vision. Develops software solutions for emerging requirements, including prototyping and packaging software as well as handling early stage deployment to both cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure) and edge devices, such as: RaspberryPi 4 (both on Raspbian OS and Ubuntu for RPI), Jetson Nano, Rockchip RK3288.

The scope of the responsibilities for this position encompasses (but is not limited to): surveying state of the art for relevant techniques/technologies, conducting feasibility studies, adapting and tailoring machine learning solutions to specific needs/scenarios, implementing and testing the latter as well as benchmarking performance, deploying, managing and maintaining Microsoft Azure resources (Docker container).

Specific projects heavily involved in include:
  • a. Real time face detection and recognition
  • b. Real time masked face detection and recognition
  • c. Real time gender and age prediction
  • d. Object detection and tracking
  • e. Skin texture analysis through Image Processing Techniques
  • f. Dynamic pricing through Machine Learning/Deep Learning
  • g. Hair segmentation and coloring

Programming languages used in the above-mentioned projects: Python, C++, Java. Technologies and frameworks used during the development of the above-mentioned projects include: Pytorch, TensorFlow, Docker, OpenCV, Scikit-learn (sklearn), JNI, MediaPipe, OpenVino.

November 2020 - Present

National Tsing Hua University

Teacher Assistant
Hsinchu City, Taiwan

Teacher Assistant for the Data Mining: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications course, offered by Prof. Chen Yi-Hsin, National Tsing Hua University, Institute of Information Systems and Applications (ISA 5810, Fall 2019). Course contents included data analysis and visualization, the use of machine learning techniques to extract knowledge from data and solve classification, regression and clustering problems. Main programming language: Python.

September 2019 - January 2020

National Tsing Hua University

Teacher Assistant
Hsinchu City, Taiwan

Teacher Assistant for the Data Structures course offered by Prof. Chen Yi-Hsin, National Tsing Hua University, Computer Science Department (CS 2351, Spring 2019). Course contents included basic data structures (arrays, graphs, trees, hash tables, etc.), associated algorithms and performance analysis. Main programming language: C++.

February 2019 - June 2019

Embassy of Canada

Immigration Program Registry Clerk
Guatemala City, Guatemala

Assisting and expediting the processing of visa applications. Managing and maintaining the storing of visa applications. Performing general office administration duties.

July 2013 - August 2013

Embassy of Canada

Receptionist and Switchboard Operator
Guatemala City, Guatemala

Greeting, welcoming and announcing visitors to the Embassy of Canada in Guatemala. Receiving and forwarding incoming calls. Providing information and guidance. Performing general administration duties.

June 2013 - June 2013

TELUS International

Customer Service Representative (French Language Division)
Guatemala City, Guatemala

Customer Service Representative for online game platform Zynga. Assisting and providing information to customers.


October 2011 - March 2013

Languages & Soft Skills

Languages

  • Spanish - Native Proficiency
  • French - Native Proficiency
  • English - Bilingual Proficiency
  • Chinese - Professional Working Proficiency
  • Japanese - Beginner Proficiency

Soft Skills

  • Likes to keep learning and improving her skill set
  • Highly motivated to grow expertise
  • Strong sense of responsibility
  • Aims for efficiency and excellency
  • Good Organizational Skills
  • Pragmatic approach
  • Flexible
  • Adaptable
  • Proactive

Licences & Certificates

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate

Microsoft
Taipei City, Taiwan

Manage Azure resources for machine learning, run machine learning experiments and train models on Azure Machine Learning platform, deploy machine learning solutions. (Credly badge link)

November 2021

Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language Certificate (TCFL)

Ministry of Education, Taiwan
Taipei City, Taiwan

Obtained a Level 3 Certificate for the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language

May 2014

Legal Translation Certificate (English-Spanish)

Ministry of Education, Guatemala (MINEDUC)
Guatemala City, Guatemala

Authorized by the Ministry of Education , Guatemala to provide legal translation and interpretation services (Spanish-English).

December 2012