Ian Wu
Course Producer at University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Wu is an applied data scientist and course producer at USC with eight years of experience building and teaching ML systems, specializing in NLP and human-centered predictive modeling for social platforms, e-commerce, and markets. He combines hands-on research—training GRU/LSTM agents with reinforcement learning and augmenting CT scans for improved medical image segmentation—with practical engineering skills in PyTorch, TensorFlow, Flask, and AWS to move models from prototype to evaluation. At USC he supports a large machine learning course, grading, and mentoring students while running human-agent evaluation studies from his research at the Institute for Creative Technologies. His background includes productionizing an image background removal API and improving medical segmentation IoU from 0.27 to 0.78, demonstrating a track record of measurable impact. Outside of data work he competes in fencing and pursues outdoor sports, reflecting a competitive, team-oriented approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Applied Data Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Applied Data Science, 4.0 at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science; Minor in Mathematics, 3.84; Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science; Minor in Mathematics, 3.84; Summa Cum Laude at Cleveland State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
tower5
defense5
ninja5
cities-skylines1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
iansui/CSCI201_Puzzungeon
Mar 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:1 push in 3 years 2 months
eye942/TbD
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Tower Defense Meets Fruit Ninja
Contributions:31 reviews, 102 commits, 62 PRs in 1 month
fruit-ninjatower-defensegamemeetsdefense
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