David Wu
PHD Student at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDavid Wu is a PhD student in Computer Science with eight years of hands-on experience in data analytics, machine learning, and full-stack research engineering. He holds a First Class Masters in Information Technology (AI) from the University of Melbourne and dual-strong undergraduate training in Computer Science and Financial Mathematics & Statistics from the University of Sydney. David has built production-oriented research systems—ranging from a meeting speaker-diarization Android app to a large-scale academic search and learning-to-rank platform that processed hundreds of thousands of papers and leveraged MAG/Wikipedia knowledge bases. He combines practical skills in Python NLP tooling (NLTK, spaCy), recommender systems, and rapid prototyping with a proven ability to translate limited ground-truth data into effective ranking solutions. Based in Melbourne and now pursuing doctoral research at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, he pairs rigorous academic training with a track record of shipping research software for real users. An underrated strength is his ease moving between low-level algorithm experimentation and UI/UX improvements (e.g., prefix-trie autocomplete) to maximize impact under tight timelines.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Chinese Academy of SciencesThe University of SydneyThe University of Melbourne
Chinese, English
Github Skills (28)
discrete-mathematics10
algorithms10
artificial-intelligence10
statistical-learning10
data-science10
data-mining10
machine-learning10
design-patterns10
deep-learning10
sql10
android10
natural-language-processing10
data-structures10
computer-vision10
corpus-linguistics10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JiashuWu/Language
Jan 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
JiashuWu/JiashuWu
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:172 commits, 104 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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