Bo Shao
Software Engineer at AECOM
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBo Shao is a software engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and nine years of industry experience, currently building software at AECOM in Miami. He blends research-grade expertise in data mining and machine learning with practical backend engineering, evidenced by his contributions to an open-source TensorFlow seq2seq chatbot where he improved model accuracy with attention, dropout, GRUCells and bucketing. Comfortable merging research and production, he focuses on scalable architecture and model optimization while also smoothing user-facing interactions. His profile reflects a rare combination of academic depth and hands-on implementation that accelerates ML projects from prototype to deployable systems.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Florida International University
Github Skills (8)
attention-mechanism10
machine-learning10
tensorflow10
python10
seq2seq10
model-optimization10
data-augmentation9
nlp9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bshao001/ChatLearner
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
A chatbot implemented in TensorFlow based on the seq2seq model, with certain rules integrated.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Back-end Developer & ML EngineerContributions:151 commits, 130 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Bo made significant contributions to the chatbot's functionality, primarily by optimizing the user interface, including enabling a smooth exit. They were also involved in the model's architecture, by merging changes and integrating new features, such as the implementation of bucketing, and adding output projection to support a larger vocabulary. Furthermore, the user focused on enhancing the model's performance and accuracy by introducing dropout layers, GRUCell, and adding attention mechanism, including expanding the training data set, which involved both code modifications and model configuration.
nlpintegratedseq2seqseq2seq-modeltensorflow
bshao001/TF-Model-Deploy-Tutorial
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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