Ruiyi Hao
Melbourne,Australia
Summary
Highly self-disciplined Master of Information Technology student at the University of Melbourne specializing in AI-driven solutions. Continuously expanding expertise in Power BI and Azure cloud services. Passionate about contributing to impactful projects by leveraging technical proficiency and leadership skills in dynamic, innovative, and ethical environments.
Proficient in data processing, statistical modelling, deep learning for computer vision and natural language processing, and AI planning. Demonstrates effective leadership by organizing a team with peers, facilitating a collaborative team environment, and resolving team conflicts.
Energetically drove advancements in digital health at The Florey Institute, leveraging Python and R to design data pre-processing procedures and enlarging neuropsychological test training samples by 5 times.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Digital Health Product Development Officer
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
07.2024 - 11.2024
- Assisted the Alzheimer's Disease neuropsychological test progression prediction
- Executed data wrangling on multiple medical data sources, tuned the threshold of participant number and test number, successfully enlarged the neuropsychological test size by 5 times while ensuring a relatively low missing rate
- Performed missing imputation using advanced R packages, further increased the progression type classification accuracy by 20%
- Manipulated the existing time-series-based clustering and regression code base to adapt the new dataset
- Participated in regular meetings and reported working progress and results
- Generated simple codebase documentation for medical data integration, allowing a reproducible merging process
Deep Learning for Shape Stack Stable-height Prediction
The University of Melbourne
09.2024 - 10.2024
- Applied a 3-hidden-layer CNN as a baseline model, increased the baseline model performance by 10% through data augmentation
- Harnessed Transfer Learning with fine-tuning layers, pretrained image classification models been applied include VGG16, Vision Transformer and inception-v4
- Conducted comprehensive quantitative and qualitative error analysis on model performance
Design Autonomous Agents for Splendor Board Game
The University of Melbourne
04.2024 - 05.2024
- Implemented a minimax algorithm, achieved a 60% winning rate against the standard agents
- Applied alpha-beta and time-based pruning, solved the challenge of one-second action-return-time limitation
- Designed a Monte-Carlo Tree Search autonomous agent, applied Multi-armed Bandit in action selection, significantly reduced the state-action space exploration
- Developed with two team members a Q-approximation-heuristic-search hybrid agent, focused on 13 different board features, achieved a 70% win rate against 4 different levels of opponent agents
Java Shared Whiteboard Application Development
The University of Melbourne
04.2024 - 05.2024
- Achieved real-time synchronous drawing, texting and chatting functionalities
- Crafted a user-friendly GUI using Swing, incorporating features such as shape and text insertion, color selection, a dynamic user list, a real-time chat box, and a comprehensive file menu
- Implemented a well-designed network communication protocol, and tailored message exchanging format for different services based on JSON data structures
- Innovated a hybrid system architecture by combining RMI with Socket programming, leading to a scalable system supporting multi-user sessions and real-time synchronization
Text Generation Detection in Context of Mixed Domain Project
The University of Melbourne
08.2023 - 09.2023
- Created a two-phase model capable of distinguishing in between machine-generated and human-authored texts from mixed domains, attained an accuracy of 0.81
- Applied over-sampling on the biased domain before train-test split, substantially improved the prediction accuracy
- Implemented a pre-trained transformer model in phase 1 text domain prediction, enhanced the domain classification accuracy by 30%
Victorian Rental Price Prediction Project
The University of Melbourne
09.2022 - 10.2022
- Applied granularity transformation, allowing suburb-based instead of SA2-based analysis
- Predicted Victorian rental price in 2025 by suburbs based on 2022 data, improved the prediction score by 25% through replacing Gaussian GLM with Gradient Boosting Regressor
- Derived top livable and affordable suburbs in Victoria in future 3 years
- Applied model-based and statistical-based feature engineering, extracted three most crucial internal and external real-estate features for rental price prediction
Education
Master of Information Technology - Artificial Intelligence
The University of Melbourne
06.2025
Bachelor of Science - Data Science
The University of Melbourne
06.2023
Skills
- Programming Languages: Python, Java, R, SQL, MATLAB
- Data Cleaning Tools: Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn
- Data Transformation: Feature Engineering, PCA
- Statistical Modelling: Model Selection, Evaluation, Diagnostic, Tuning, Error Analysis,
- Deep Learning Tools: TensorFlow, PyTorch
- Computer Vision: Image Pre-processing, Transfer Learning, CNN, Feature Matching, Detection, Segmentation, Visualisation
- Natural Language Processing: Text Pre-processing
- AI Planning: Classical Planning, PDDL, Reinforcement Learning
- Version Control: GitHub, GitLab
- Project Management Tools: Jira, Trello, Slack
- GUI Design Tools: JavaFX, Swing
- Microsoft Suites: Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Professional Skills: Effective Written & Oral Communication, Leadership and Conflict Resolution, Time and Self-management
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Melbourne International Undergraduate Scholarship, 2020
- Melbourne International Undergraduate Scholarship, 2022
Additional Information
English (Academic), Chinese (Native), Japanese (Proficient)
Certification
Melbourne Plus: Sustainability Advocacy
Commonwealth Bank: You x CommBank Job Simulation Completion Certification
Timeline
Deep Learning for Shape Stack Stable-height Prediction
The University of Melbourne
09.2024 - 10.2024
Digital Health Product Development Officer
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
07.2024 - 11.2024
Design Autonomous Agents for Splendor Board Game
The University of Melbourne
04.2024 - 05.2024
Java Shared Whiteboard Application Development
The University of Melbourne
04.2024 - 05.2024
Text Generation Detection in Context of Mixed Domain Project
The University of Melbourne
08.2023 - 09.2023
Victorian Rental Price Prediction Project
The University of Melbourne
09.2022 - 10.2022
Melbourne Plus: Sustainability Advocacy
Commonwealth Bank: You x CommBank Job Simulation Completion Certification
Master of Information Technology - Artificial Intelligence
The University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science - Data Science
The University of Melbourne
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