Fengyu Cai
Ph.D. Research Assistant at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolFengyu Cai is a fourth-year Ph.D. research assistant at TU Darmstadt specializing in information retrieval, with nine years of industry and research experience spanning NLP, data science, and interactive data visualization. He has blended academic rigor from top institutions (EPFL, ETH Zürich, HKUST, Washington University in St. Louis) with practical ML/NLP product work—building a resume-parsing engine, contributing to surveillance NLP at Credit Suisse, and shipping Vue/D3 data viz features. Comfortable moving between research prototypes and production systems, he focuses on bridging advanced IR research with deployable tooling. Based in Darmstadt, he’s part of SOS & UKP research groups and brings a track record of cross-disciplinary collaboration across European research labs and finance/tech companies.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, 5.6/6, Master of Computer Science, 5.6/6 at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneHong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology-Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Engineering & Computer Science, 3.8/4.3, Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology-Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Engineering & Computer Science, 3.8/4.3 at 香港科技大学Overseas Exchange Program, Overseas Exchange Program at Washington University in St. Louis
Chinese, English
Github Skills (27)
research-and-development7
question-answering6
retrieval6
transformer5
information-retrieval5
pytorch5
to-do4
deep-learning4
skeleton3
recursive3
autoencoder2
matching2
sentence2
javascript2
fact2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TRUMANCFY/teamform-seed
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:41 pushes in 22 days
engineering-coursefallgoalskeletonskeleton-application
TRUMANCFY/Data_Viz_2018
Nov 2018 - May 2020
Data Visualization EPFL
Contributions:10 PRs, 36 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
data-visualizationepflvisualization
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