About
Nice to meet you! This is the 21-year-old Scottie (杨淼壹). I am from a small and peaceful town back in China, and I stayed abroad for a great amount of time after my childhood. I am a firm believer of humanitarian engineering and that technology is to do good to all mankind.
@ Anchorage Museum, AK
Full-stack Developer
Computer Science Researcher
I am currently a Dual Degree Engineering undergraduate at Dartmouth College (major: Engineering Sciences with concentration in Computer and Electrical Engineering) and Colby College (major: Computer Science; minor: Economics). My research and career interests include human-centered computing, algorithms, compilers and computer structures, and quatified international trade.
- Degrees: BA, Colby College, 2024
BEng, Dartmouth College, 2025 - Awards: Innovate For Maine Fellowship
Presidential Scholarship
Doherty Family Research Fellowship
Davis United World College Scholarship
- Interests: climbing and thru-hiking
long-distance swimming
watching TV series - Hub Cities: Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Santa Ana, San José, Costa Rica
Anchorage, AK, United States
Experience
My professional life:
Basically a delicately updated resume.
Career
iOS Software Engineer Intern
Real Time Reality
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Portland, ME, United States
Real Time Reality is a growing startup focusing on virtual biometrical models and its mobile application in the industry.
- Developed the stereotype with Axure and the iOS test app with Swift for interactive authentication and augment reality instructions; utilized ARKit and WebView to integrate the company's biometric dataset and modeling technology.
- Assisted to create the mid-term report and presented the dataset with stereotype at the investor briefing.
Research and Development Team Head
X Academy
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
iFlyTek is Asia's first-ranked and largest NLP research company with many other artificial intelligence products and toolkits.
- Oversaw the development and execution of 32 unique on-site curriculums for over 750 post-secondary level participants in two 15-day summer sessions with 140 specialized professors, instructors, and teaching fellows; established partnerships with several cutting-edge companies for online and innovative STEM experiences.
Product Manager Intern (Core Development Platform)
iFlyTek
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Hefei, Anhui, China
iFlyTek is Asia's first-ranked and largest NLP research company with many other artificial intelligence products and toolkits.
- Carried out demand research and competitive product analysis of the handheld translator products; performed statistical analysis with MySQL on product usage and formed 4 usage reports and took 6 new features through the lifecycle.
- Monitored product optimization effects with Visio; coordinated R&D and testing teams to adjust implementation goals.
Business Analyst Intern
GrowthBox
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
(Remote)
GrowthBox is a research-based think tank that helps startups maximize their profits by optimizing their business models.
- Engaged in research and data mining with Scrapy and Orange to analyze online selling, revenue growth strategies, and sales data from raising unicorn companies; formed weekly market reports with Tableau.
- Started a weekly forum to discuss research findings and successful business models with individual subscribers and startups; brought up subscriber number by hundreds.
Project
"Inclusive Design Challenge: An Antonomous Vehicle Assistant for Visually Impaired with NavCog and OpenStreetMap"
The VEMI Lab of UMaine
Colby Insite Lab
- Built a mobile guidance app and 4 updates with Swift AVFoundation and UIAccessibility; tested and assisted to integrate barrier-regnition PyTorch models; worked 2 rounds of field tests; team awarded finalist by USDOT in summer 2022.
"Mini-Golf Go"
CS269 @ Colby College
- Designed a PC game using PyGame and C# with updated version consisting of 6 game levels and maps; composed all in-game music pieces; modeled game gravitaitonal and terrain engine with Unity; team awarded first place at final exhibition.
"EMIP Toolkit: A Python Library for Customized Post-processing Eye Movements in Programming Dataset"
Colby Department of Computer Science
"A Historical View for Fintech and AI: Unraveling China's Fintech Development from Cloud Computing"
ECON 204 @ Duke University
Skills
Technical stack matters:
I subjectively rate my level of confidence for some skills.
Contact
Knock, knock! who’s there?
Ken. Ken who?
Ken I come in? It's cold out here.
Phone
(971) 341 7787