Tianbo Shu

Proficient Software Development Intern with a proven history of going above and beyond to contribute to team objectives. Contributes to process optimization by automating tasks for increased efficiency.

• e-Tickets Web Application using ASP.NET Framework

A web application for purchasing movie tickets online. Built using MVC architecture, Bootstrap, and Azure SQL database. Some functionalities include but are not limited to:

• Creating, editing, and deleting movies/actors/producers/cinemas.
• Registering for a new account and logging in.
• Add tickets to the cart and integrate Paypal API for checking out.
• User authentication and authorization.

(Code available at https://github.com/tonyshu001/eTickets)

• Automated Fact-Checking System for Climate Change Claims

Given a claim related to climate change, first, find relevant evidence (approximately 3 to 10 pieces of evidence) from an extensive knowledge base(approximately over 1.2 million ground-truth). Then based on the relevant evidence retrieved, classify the claim as SUPPORTS/REFUTES/NOT_ENOUGH_INFO/DISPUTED. Some main techniques employed are:

• Transformer-based pre-trained language models: Sentence Transformer, DistilBERT, T5, RoBERTa.
• Key-word-based similarity measurement: TF-IDF, BM25+.
• Pre-processing and post-processing: stop-word removal, self-training, and top-k evidence selection.
• Model performance was ranked 7th among over 400 participants.