Pierce Anderson Fu

Email: pierceanderson.fu@gmail.com

Profile

• Software engineer who believes in the importance of simplifying complexity and good documentation
• Has interests in linguistics, machine translations, natural language processing
• Silver Medallist in the 13th National Olympiad in Informatics, Singapore

Education

Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science)

National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Expected date of graduation: December 2017

• Focus Area: Information Retrieval
• Minor: Japanese Studies (Linguistics)

Summer Language Immersion Programme

Tamagawa University (Machida, Tokyo)

• Month-long immersion programme

GCE ‘A’ Level

Dunman High School (Singapore)

• H2: Computing. Mathematics, Physics
• H1: General Paper, Economics

Skills

Programming Languages

• Proficient: Java, Python 2.7/3.5, JavaScript, C++
• Familiar: PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, R

Libraries and Frameworks

• Proficient: NLTK, Stanford CoreNLP, jQuery, JUnit
• Familiar: CUDA, Tensorflow, Bootstrap

Operating Systems

• Proficient: Windows
• Familiar: Unix

Software

• Proficient: Git, PyCharm, Eclipse, PhpStorm
• Familiar: Vagrant, AutoHotKey

Natural Languages

• Native: English, Mandarin
• Business Proficiency: Japanese (JLPT N2)

Work Experience

Teaching Assistant for CS2103 Software Engineering (Java)

National University of Singapore

August 2016 - December 2016

• Provided weekly instruction and guidance through tutoring and mentoring to a group of 8 students
• Led discussions on modern software engineering concepts and their applications
• Evaluated programming homework and projects and provided timely feedback

Teaching Assistant for Programming Refresher Workshop (Java, C++)

National University of Singapore

July 2016

• Taught a class of more than 30 freshman undergraduates at a programming and problem-solving skills workshop
• Guided students’ thought processes though Socratic questioning
• Covered topics such as recursion, sorting, searching, divide-and-conquer

Undergraduate Research Assistant (Python, Java, Scala)

National University of Singapore

May 2016 - July 2016

• Scraped HTML files and applied topic modelling techniques
• Analysed sentiments of online news articles and major internet-based retailer’s product reviews through NLP
• Provided active support to lead researcher in the study of interplays between social media and business models

Projects

Viterbi Part-of-Speech Tagger (https://git.io/vP2gA)

Software Engineer (Python)

October 2016

• Tags each word in input sentences with its part-of-speech (POS) tags with 95.5% accuracy
• Trains a hidden Markov model using a tagged training corpus
• Decodes the best POS tag sequence for a sentence using the Viterbi algorithm

Movie Genre Classifier (https://git.io/vwC5m)

Software Engineer (Python)

April 2016

• Builds a word bigram language model using IMDb’s database, and classifies movies’ genres
• Given a movie’s synopsis, returns its list of most probable genres, in order of likelihood

SoCPlans.com (http://SoCPlans.com)

Software Engineer, Back-end (PHP, Python, MySQL)

April 2016

• Created a web application to help NUS undergraduates verify their eligibility for graduation and simplify module planning
• Worked in a small team of 6 as the back-end programmer

Ranked Document Retrieval (https://git.io/vVHMG)

Software Engineer (Python)

March 2016

• Indexes a corpus, and provides ranked document retrieval using a vector space model
• Worked closely with partner, and learnt to communicate effectively while working on adjacent components
• Pair programmed core components

Haystack (https://git.io/vwRBH)

Team Leader, Software Engineer (Java, Junit, Git)

August 2014 - December 2014

• Created command-line interface based task management tool using MVC framework
• Managed team and delegated tasks to members based on strengths, abilities, and potential
• Developed software with modern software practices such as unit development, automated unit testing, agile software development

Open Source Contributions

se-edu/addressbook-level2 (Source, List of PRs)

Improved code quality by removing unused code based on YAGNI principle.

se-edu/addressbook-level4 (Source, List of PRs)

Improved code quality by

• removing unnecessary usages of Java Optionals and regex,
• restructuring code to simplify logic and avoid returning indistinguishable empty or non-existant values,
• updating outdated comments and tests.

se-edu/se-edu.github.io (Source, List of PRs)

Improved code quality by ensuring consistent code behaviour regardless of how webpage was accessed.

coala/coala (Source, List of PRs)

Improved Git doumentation by

• clarifying what remote names and URLs to use when rebasing,
• making remote names consistent with common practices and less confusing for readers.

se-edu/learning-resources (Source, PR)

Wrote up articles on GPGPU and CUDA.

nus-oss/lightningtalks (Source, List of talks)

Gave 7-minute lightning talks on

• An Introduction to GPGPU
• Learning CUDA with Python
• Better Naming: How to come up with meaningful names