Hey there!

I'm 

Jerry Chan

I have a strong passion for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and love to delve into the depths of these fascinating fields.

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Education

Stanford University

Master of Science in Computer Science

Aug 2023 -

Where I'll continue my journey in machine learning. starting Fall 2023.

University of California, San Diego

Bachelor of Science in Data Science · GPA:3.98 · Summa Cum Laude

Sep 2019 - Jun 2022

Where I collaborate with brilliant people on amazing research projects. I was also a tutor at the Data Science Department and a board member of the Chinese Computer Community. At La Jolla, I discovered my love for the waves while learning how to surf!

Projects

2020-2022

Automated Skin Biopsy Analysis with Limited Data

Chan, YC., Zhang, J., Frizzi, K., Calcutt, N., Cottrell, G.

We developed a system that segments the microscopic image of skin biopsy to aid pathologists in the diagnosis of neuropathy. Working closely with UCSD Health and its partnering pharmaceutical company, we accelerated its research on reversing neuropathy by bringing efficiency and consistency to this time-consuming and often variable manual process in its multinational clinical trial. As the first author of the paper, I presented our result at MICCAI 2022, Singapore.

Published at MICCAI 2022 Workshop MILLanD

2021-2022

On the Feasibility of Cross-Task Transfer with Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Xu, Y., Hansen, N., Wang, Z., Chan, YC., Su, H., Tu, Z.

Reinforcement Learning algorithms can solve challenging control problems directly from image observations, but they often require millions of environment interactions to do so. We investigate the feasibility of pretraining and cross-task transfer in model-based RL, and improve sample-efficiency substantially over baselines on the Atari100k benchmark.

Published at ICLR 2023

More Projects

Wordle Solver

2022

Tired of ppl flexing their score, I wrote a bot that solves the puzzle with a near-optimal strategy so they can shut up about it

REPO

Explainable AI

2022

A study on ML model interpretation techniques and fairness analysis methods for AI systems

REPO

Image Classification

2020

PyTorch Implementation of image classification pipeline with thorough experiments and weight/feature map visualizations

REPO

Image Captioning

2020

PyTorch Implementation of image captioning pipeline with experiments on model architectures and generation approaches

REPO

Data Mining

2021

Discussion and implementations of 8 classification, regression, and recommendation algorithms

REPO

Experiences

Amazon Web Services

SDE Intern

Jun 2022 - Sep 2022

Developed a serverless, end-to-end notification feature on the AWS computer vision platform, enabling real-time updates on asynchronous workflows.

UCSD CSE Dept.

Undergraduate Researcher

Jan 2021 - Jun 2022

Designed a robust image segmentation pipeline for analyzing microscopic images of skin biopsies using machine learning and image processing algorithms.

UCSD Cog Sci Dept.

Undergraduate Researcher

Dec 20221- Jun 2022

Researched the possibility of integrating search algorithms in vision transformer on model-based reinforcement learning tasks.

UCSD Data Science Inst.

Tutor

Sep 2020 - Mar 2022

TA'd Python and Java data structures & algorithms courses, receiving 100% feedback from students.

WinSanTor

Machine Learning Intern

Jun 2021 - Jun 2022

Successfully adapted and applied medical image analysis methods to real-world clinical data.

Chinese Computer Community @ UCSD

Data Science Chair

Mar 2021 - Jun 2022

Initiated and managed data science projects. Organized deep learning workshops and led teams of machine learning enthusiasts in Kaggle competitions.