curriculum_vitae_citadel.yaml

---
name: Han Liang Wee, Eric
title: ""
address: SGP
email: mail@eric-han.com
twitter: eric_vader
github: eric-vader
www: eric-han.com
tel: '+6592982927'
bibliography: ./eric.bib

appointment:
  -
    place: "[National University of Singapore](http://www.nus.edu.sg/)"
    items:
      -
        item: Graduate Tutor
        dates: \dmydate\formatdate{8}{8}{2018} - Curr.
        description: |
           Tutor for Undergraduate modules. 
           Teach lectures, tutorials and consultations; Manage tutors and grading; Mentor new tutors; Develop grading rubrics, exam questions and module tools.
      -
        item: Tutor for Intro to Programming Workshop
        dates: \mydate\formatdate{3}{7}{2017} # \d\formatdate{3}{7}{2017} - \dmydate\formatdate{6}{7}{2017}
        description: |
           Coached freshmen on computational thinking, programming.
  -
    place: "[Agency for Science, Technology and Research](https://www.a-star.edu.sg/ihpc)"
    items:
      -
        item: "Research Intern -- A Cloud-based Collaborative Model Building Platform"
        dates: \mydate\formatdate{1}{12}{2015} #\ddate\formatdate{1}{12}{2015} - \dmydate\formatdate{30}{12}{2015}
        description: Contributed to a cloud based Machine Learning platform.
      -
        item: "Research Intern -- Autonomous Machine Learning using HPC Approaches"
        dates: \mydate\formatdate{6}{5}{2015} - \formatdate{30}{6}{2015}
        description: Contributed to a cloud based Machine Learning platform.
      -
        item: "Research Intern -- Route My Day (Recommendation System)"
        dates: \mydate\formatdate{14}{1}{2013} - \formatdate{13}{7}{2013}
        description: Contributed to a end-to-end recommender system.
education:
  -
    place: "[National University of Singapore](http://www.nus.edu.sg/)"
    item: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science
    grade: Current Cumulative Average Point (4.92/5.00); Advised by Asst. Prof. Scarlett Jonathan.
    date: \mydate\formatdate{8}{8}{2018} - Exp.\ydate\formatdate{7}{8}{2023} 
    info:
      - "Research focus 'Towards Modern Gaussian Processes', which aims to tackle problems related to Gaussian Processes (GP) such as scaling and robustness."
  -
    place: "[National University of Singapore](http://www.nus.edu.sg/)"
    item: Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science)
    grade: Graduated With Honours (Highest Distinction) in Computer Science
    date: \mydate\formatdate{12}{8}{2013} - \mydate\formatdate{31}{1}{2018}
    info:
      - Completed the Turing Programme, which nurture students who aspire to engage research careers.
  -
    place: "[USC Viterbi School of Engineering](https://www.usc.edu/)"
    item: Student Exchange
    grade: "Grade Point Average (4.0/4.0); Best student in CSCI 420."
    date: \mdate\formatdate{11}{1}{2016} - \mydate\formatdate{11}{5}{2016}

achievement:
  - type: "Awards"
    items:
      -
        place: "[National University of Singapore](http://www.nus.edu.sg/)"
        item: Certificate of Accomplishment
        date: \dmydate\formatdate{1}{2}{2022}
        info: Long Service Award; In appreciation of the 5 years of service as a Graduate Tutor.
      -
        place: "[National University of Singapore](http://www.nus.edu.sg/)"
        item: Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize 2017/18
        date: \dmydate\formatdate{21}{6}{2018}
        info: Individual prize; Final Year Project - Feature Subset Selection using Reinforcement Learning.
      -
        place: "[National University of Singapore](http://www.nus.edu.sg/)"
        item: Certificate of Merit in Algo. \& Theory Focus Area
        date: \dmydate\formatdate{29}{1}{2018}
        info: Awarded for meritorious performance in the focus area.
      -
        place: "[National University of Singapore](http://www.nus.edu.sg/)"
        item: Dean's List Recipient
        date: \dmydate\formatdate{15}{1}{2018}
        info: Named to Dean's List for meritorious performance in S1 AY17/18.
  - type: "Scholarships"
    items:
      -
        place: "[Agency for Science, Technology and Research](https://www.a-star.edu.sg/)"
        item: A*STAR Undergraduate Scholarship
        date: \dmydate\formatdate{25}{7}{2012}
        info: Prestigious scholarship awarded to budding scientists.

research:
  - type: Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications
    items:
      -
        title: Adversarial Attacks on Gaussian Process Bandits
        author: "**Eric Han**, Jonathan Scarlett"
        place: Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning
        date: \mydate\formatdate{17}{7}{2022}
        twopage: true
        academic: true
        resume: true
        fcitekey: pmlr-v162-han22f
      -
        title: High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization via Tree-Structured Additive Models
        author: "***Eric Han***, Ishank Arora, Jonathan Scarlett"
        place: Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
        date: \mydate\formatdate{2}{2}{2021}
        fsummary: "Bayesian Optimization (BO) has shown significant success in tackling expensive low-dimensional black-box optimization problems. Many optimization problems of interest are high-dimensional, and scaling BO to such settings remains an important challenge. In this paper, we consider generalized additive models in which low-dimensional functions with overlapping subsets of variables are composed to model a high-dimensional target function. Our goal is to lower the computational resources required and facilitate faster model learning by reducing the model complexity while retaining the sample-efficiency of existing methods. Specifically, we constrain the underlying dependency graphs to tree structures in order to facilitate both the structure learning and optimization of the acquisition function. For the former, we propose a hybrid graph learning algorithm based on Gibbs sampling and mutation. In addition, we propose a novel zooming-based algorithm that permits generalized additive models to be employed more efficiently in the case of continuous domains. We demonstrate and discuss the efficacy of our approach via a range of experiments on synthetic functions and real-world datasets."
        twopage: true
        academic: true
        resume: true
        fcitekey: Han_Arora_Scarlett_2021

teaching:
  - course: CS3203 -- Software Engineering Project
    type: Undergrad.
    credits: 8 credits
    items:
      -
        tasks: "Support lectures, teach consultations, organize tutors, grading, improve grading rubrics and improve testing tools."
        date: AY21/22 S1
      - 
        tasks: "Support lectures, teach consultations, organize tutors, grading, maintain testing tools."
        date: AY20/21 S2
      -
        tasks: "Support lectures, teach consultations and develop testing tools."
        date: AY19/20 S2
      - 
        tasks: "Teach tutorials, consultations and support lectures."
        date: AY18/19 S2
      - 
        tasks: "Teach tutorials and consultations."
        date: AY18/19 S1
  - course: CS2030/CS2030S -- Programming Methodology II 
    type: Undergrad.
    credits: 4 credits
    items:
      -
        tasks: "Supported Labs and developed module tools; Created sub-flavor of Fedora Linux for virtual exam needs due to COVID-19."
        date: AY20/21 S1
  - course: CS3217 -- Software Engineering on Modern App. Platforms  
    type: Undergrad.
    credits: 4 credits
    items:
      -
        tasks: "Taught tutorial classes."
        date: AY21/22 S2
  - course: CS3243 -- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
    type: Undergrad.
    credits: 4 credits
    items:
      -
        tasks: "Teach tutorials, review of learning materials, designing exam questions."
        date: AY22/23 S1
      -
        tasks: "Teach tutorials, grading, organize tutors for assignment grading, designing assignment grading rubrics, designing exam questions."
        date: AY21/22 S2


public_history:
-
  role: Museum
  gigs:
  -
    item: American Whaling exhibits at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
    date: 2014-2015
  -
    item: Mapping the Frontier, Boston Public Library
    date: 2019
-
  role: Language Consulting
  gigs:

  -
    item: "Historical Language Consultant, \"Masters of Sex,\" Season 2. Showtime Television."
    date: 2014
  -
    item: "Historical Language Consultant, \"Vegas,\" Season 1. Eye Productions/CBS television."
    date: 2012-2013
-
  role: TV and Radio Appearances
  gigs:
  - 
    item: Central Standard, KCUR Kansas City, "Is History Dying?"
    url: https://www.kcur.org/show/central-standard/2019-01-30/seg-1-is-history-dying-seg-2-the-marie-kondo-craze
    date: January 30, 2019
  -
    item: "\"Think\" with Krys Boyd, KERA Dallas. \"Go ahead, Major in Philosophy.\""
    url: "http://think.kera.org/2018/09/10/go-ahead-major-in-philosophy/"
    date: September 10, 2018
  -
    item: Morning Edition, National Public Radio. Discussing gendered language and teaching evaluations.
    url: "http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2015/02/23/386001328/how-we-talk-about-our-teachers"
    date: February 23, 2015
  -
    item: WBAL, Baltimore. Discussing the State of the Union Address.
    date: January 20, 2015
  -
    item: "New England Cable News. Discussing \"The Simpsons.\""
    date: September 2014
  -
    item: The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU Washington DC. Hourlong guest discussing Digital Humanities.
    url: "http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2013-02-19/digital-humanities"
    date: February 19, 2013
  -
    item: On the Media, National Public Radio. Discussing historical fiction and computational changes in language. (Version of Lexicon Valley interview, below).
    url: "http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/jun/15/lexicon-valley-takes-mad-men/"
    date: June 15, 2012
  -
    item: Lexicon Valley podcast, Slate.com.
    url: "http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2012/06/lexicon_valley_anachronisms_in_mad_men_downton_abbey_and_edith_wharton_.html"
    date: June 11, 2012
  -
    item: Weekends with Alex Witt, MSNBC. Discussing Mad Men.
    date: March 24, 2012

service:
-
  type: "Service to Research Community"
  gigs:
    -
      item: Student Volunteer for [34th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory](http://algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2023/).
      date: \dmydate\formatdate{23}{2}{2023}
      twopage: true
    -
      item: Session Chair for [Workshop on Information Theory and Data Science](https://ims.nus.edu.sg/events/information-theory-and-data-science-workshop/).
      date: \dmydate\formatdate{20}{1}{2023}
      twopage: true
    -
      item: Reviewer for [39th International Conference on Machine Learning](https://icml.cc/Conferences/2022).
      date: \dmydate\formatdate{11}{4}{2022}
      twopage: true
-
  type: "Service to [National University of Singapore](http://www.nus.edu.sg/)"
  gigs:
    -
      item: Admission reviewer for Master of Computing applicants (Aug 2022).
      date: \dmydate\formatdate{8}{4}{2022}
      twopage: true
    -
      item: Featured in a PhD programme marketing video.
      date: \dmydate\formatdate{29}{9}{2021}
    -
      item: Program Committee for NUS Computing Research Week 2021.
      date: \ddate\formatdate{3}{8}{2021} - \dmydate\formatdate{5}{8}{2021}
      twopage: true
      info: Moderator of the technical panel discussion titled 'Heterogeneity in Federated Learning'.
    -
      item: Admission reviewer for Master of Computing applicants (August 2021).
      date: \dmydate\formatdate{26}{4}{2021}
      twopage: true
    -
      item: Admission reviewer for Master of Computing applicants (Jan 2021).
      date: \dmydate\formatdate{18}{10}{2020}
      twopage: true
-
  type: "Service to [Agency for Science, Technology and Research](https://www.a-star.edu.sg/ihpc)"
  gigs:
    - 
      item: "Guidance to junior scholar -- sharing of experiences."
      date: \mydate\formatdate{27}{6}{2019}
    - 
      item: "Invited Speaker for A*STAR Scholarships Seminar for Undergraduate Studies."
      date: \dmydate\formatdate{4}{12}{2015}
    -
      item: "Volunteer at A*STAR booth at NUS Open Day 2015 -- Outreach and promotion."
      date: \dmydate\formatdate{14}{3}{2015}
-
  type: "Service to [Impact Life Church](https://www.impactlife.sg/)"
  gigs:
    - 
      item: "Head Of Information Technology -- Lead a team of >15 volunteers."
      date: \mydate\formatdate{8}{3}{2018} - Curr.
      info: Responsible for IT infra., Purchasing, Software development of Church Applications, etc.
    - 
      item: "Cell Group Leader -- Build strong communities and healthy Christians."
      date: \mydate\formatdate{1}{10}{2017} - Curr.
    - 
      item: "Tutor - Teach tuition classes."
      info: "GCE 'A' lvl: Math, Physics & Economics; GCE 'O' lvl: Principles of Accounting, Physics."
      date: \mydate\formatdate{1}{1}{2012} - \formatdate{1}{12}{2018}
software:
- 
  program: Bookworm
  language: Python
  url: github.com/Bookworm-project/BookwormDB
  description: Visualization and statistical analysis API for nonconsumptive analysis of massive textual 
     corpora. Used by Hathi Trust Research Center, Yale University Digital Scholarship, Columbia History Lab, etc.
-
  program: WordVectors
  language: R
  url: github.com/bmschmidt/wordVectors
  description: Widely used R package for creation and analysis of word2vec and other word embedding models.
- 
  program: Deepscatter
  language: Javascript/WebGL
  url: github.com/CreatingData/deepscatter
  description: Data tiling to display zoomable D3 scatterplots with tens of millions of items in browser.
    Used for work at Library of Congress, University of Tuebingen, Nomic Software.


competencies:
-
  type: Computing Platforms
  items:
    - item: Programming Languages
      info: "Python (also sci. pkgs., ie. SciPy), C++, Java, LaTex, Markdown, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Bash."
    - item: Tools / Platforms
      info: "Git, Mlflow, Plotly, Jira, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace."
    - item: Operating Systems
      info: Linux (Fedora; daily driver), *nix administration, Windows, macOS.
-
  type: Language Proficiency
  items: 
    - item: English (Native) and Chinese (Intermediate).
# personal_projects:
# -
#   type: Curated Personal Projects
#   items:
#     - item: Automation of trading activities on FTX/Acala (Python, Javascript)
#       info: "Updates lending offers on FTX and executes arbitrage strategies on Acala blockchain."
#     - item: Ethereum Wallet Security (CUDA, C++)
#       info: "Adapted/fixed performance code that computes elliptic curve cryptography on CPUs / GPUs."
...