Samson Tan Min Rong

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Education

BComp. Computer Science + University Scholars Programme
National University of Singapore | August 2015 - Present

Diploma with Merit in Digital Visual Effects
Nanyang Polytechnic | April 2010 - May 2013

Experience

Undergraduate Research Assistant (Data Science)
National University of Singapore | Singapore
January 2017 - Present

• Wrangled and analyzed data using pandas, seaborn, Stata
• Wrote report detailing data analyses for policy makers

Management Support Staff (Writer)
Centre for Quantum Technologies | August 2016 - February 2017 (7 months)

• Wrote articles for the Quantum Shorts 2016 film festival on a part-time basis.
• http://shorts2016.quantumlah.org/news/encrypted
• http://shorts2016.quantumlah.org/news/about-time
• http://shorts2016.quantumlah.org/news/quantum-computing

Undergraduate Student Researcher (Software Engineering)
Centre for Quantum Technologies | May 2016 - August 2016 (3 months)

• Designed and developed an interactive exhibit that visualises a quantum wavefunction in real-time, enabling the general public to appreciate the ‘weirdness’ of quantum physics.
  • C++, openCV, Microsoft Kinect v2
• Created visual effects for short film for the International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC) 2016

Houdini Technical Director
Lighthouse Media International | April 2013 - August 2013 (5 months)

• Researched & Developed Digital Assets in Houdini

Visual Effects Intern
Side Effects Software Inc | June 2012 - September 2012 (3 months)

Created a Procedural Jellyfish Digital Asset in Houdini under the guidance of an industry mentor from Method Studios.

• Procedurally generated mesh, textures, animation can be tweaked interactively by 3D artists
• Enables rapid population of a scene with unique jellyfish (traditionally requires manual modelling and animation)

External OSS Contributions

• matplotlib
  • Contributions
    • Raise exception if negative height or width is passed to axes()
    • Add short-circuit return to matplotlib.artist.setp if input is length 0
    • better input validation on fill_between
• scikit-learn
  • Contributions
    • Add prominent mention of Laplacian Eigenmaps

Expert Areas

Python

• Blog on Python and data science
• moodify bot written in Python, using Python libraries
• oss-bot for PR validation
• Data wrangling and visualization in Python, Jupyter Notebook, pandas, matplotlib, and seaborn (Undergraduate Research Assistant)
• Lightning talk on Python
• Python script collection for automation (Currently only has one)
• Quora Answer Classifier Challenge using Python, scikit-learn
• Contribution to matplotlib (Python library)
• Introduction to Python Book Chapter

DevOps & Scalability Testing

• oss-bot for PR validation
• oss-bot-js for PR validation (node.js version)
• Create issue templates for TEAMMATES
• IntelliJ IDEA documentation for TEAMMATES
• Lightning talk on writing great documentation
• Add scalability/performance measures for overload-prone pages in TEAMMATES

Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

• Blog on data science and Python libraries for data science
• moodify Telegram bot using Emotion API for mood detection
• Data wrangling, visualization and analysis (work not available in public domain yet) (Undergraduate Research Assistant)
• Learning general statistics, econometrics and duration models in NUS courses (ST2334 Probability & Statistics, UQR2211 Passing Time: Processes, Temporality, and Econometrics)
• Learning and using Stata for statistical modeling and hypothesis testing (UQR2211 coursework, Undergraduate Research Assistant)
• Learning and using Jupyter IPython Notebook for data wrangling and analysis using Python (Undergraduate Research Assistant)
• Quora Answer Classifier Challenge
  • Walkthrough here and here
• CS3243 Artificial Intelligence
• Tetris AI agent using genetic algorithm
• Contribution to matplotlib (Python library for data visualizaion)
• Contribution to scikit-learn (Python library for general machine learning)
• Lightning talk on data visualisation for machine learning

Skills

Languages

• Proficient: Java, Python
• Familiar: C++

Libraries pandas, seaborn/matplotlib, openCV

Tools

• Proficient: Atom, SourceTree, git
• Familiar: Eclipse, VS14, Xcode, Travis CI, Coveralls

Other Skills

• Quantitative Reasoning
• Academic Writing
• Visual Design

Hackathons

• HacknRoll 2017
• Facebook Singapore Hackathon 2016 (Winner)
• Facebook Global Hackathon Finals 2016 (Top 8 Placing)
• HacknRoll 2016

Projects

• oss-bot (Developer)
• oss-bot-js (Developer)
• moodify (Lead Hacker)
• Matplotlib (Contributor)
• TEAMMATES (Contributor)
• Interactive Schrödinger’s Equation Probability Density Visualizer (Designer & Developer)
• TombBook (Hacker)
• IvoryTasks (Team Lead, Artistic Direction)
• divid.io (Designer)

Awards

• Facebook Singapore Hackathon 2016 (Winner)
• Facebook Global Hackathon Finals 2016 (Top 8 Placing)
• Lucasfilm Gold Medal
• NUS Undergraduate (Merit) Scholarship
• University Scholars Programme Honour Roll (2015/2016)
• Industry Preparation for Pre-graduate Programme (iPREP)