Boyang Wei
Research Assistant at Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBoyang Wei is a PhD candidate and research assistant at Northwestern University's HABits Lab specializing in passive and wireless sensing, human activity recognition, and behavioral health change using ML/DL. With nine years of experience across academia, healthcare, and consulting, he brings end-to-end big data expertise (Hadoop, Pig, Hive) and strong statistical and data analysis skills to translate noisy sensor streams into actionable insights. He has supported medical research as a data analyst at Georgetown, taught data visualization, and presented client-facing BI solutions, demonstrating an ability to communicate complex technical results to non-technical stakeholders. Comfortable in Python, R, and Java and familiar with web technologies, he blends rigorous experimental methods with practical deployment experience in multimodal sensing systems. An underappreciated strength is his cross-disciplinary background from biochemistry to analytics, which helps him frame sensing problems with both biological and computational perspectives.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry, 3.5, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry, 3.5 at University of WashingtonMaster's degree, Analytics, 3.8, Master's degree, Analytics, 3.8 at Georgetown University
Github Skills (3)
algorithm4
python3
android2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HAbitsLab/MCC_Feeding_Detection
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Open source Android-based app and Python code for detecting feeding gesture from a template-based matching algorithm.
Contributions:8 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
androidpython
BoyangW/AzureStorage-Tutorial
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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