Songwen Hu

shu343@gatech.edu | +1-413-210-0295 | https://github.com/Delen0828

Education

Shanghai Jiao Tong University     Shanghai, CN
University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU)
B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering Sept 2019 - Aug 2023

Georgia Institute of Technology     Atlanta, Georgia
School of Interactive Computing (IC)
Ph.D. in Computer Science Aug 2023 - Jun 2028 (Expected)

Publication

Hierarchical Conversational Preference Elicitation with Bandit Feedback
Jinhang Zuo, Songwen Hu, Shuai Li, Tong Yu, Handong Zhao, Carlee Joe-Wong
Accepted by Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2022 (CIKM 22)

Interactive Personalized Visualization Recommendation with Bandit Algorithms
Songwen Hu, Tong Yu, Junda Wu, Ryan Rossi, Handong Zhao, Sunchul Kim, Shuai Li
In submission to The ACM Web Conference 2023 (WWW 23)

Personalized Visualization Recommendation System with Conversational Bandit Mar 2022 - Present
Undergraduate Research Assistant; Advisors: Prof. Shuai Li and Dr. Tong Yu from Adobe Research Team
Applied Contextual Bandit and Neural Bandit algorithms to the item bundle recommendation problem. Adopted the cluster of sparse items as the dense meta feature in visualization recommendation.

Theoretical Analysis of Hierarchical Upper Confidence Bound Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
Research project with CMU CS Ph.D.; Advisor: Prof. Shuai Li
Designed a hierarchical Upper Confidence Bound algorithm for recommendation systems. Carried out math analysis of regret bound convergence and experiments in data from MovieLens & Yelp!.

Internship

Bosch China Shanghai, CN
Embedded Software Engineer Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Project: Deep Learning-based Gesture Recognition Algorithm Development
Developed gesture recognition algorithms for Human-Vehicle Interaction using DNN.
Applied the attention network to the neural network for dynamic gesture classification.
Achieved 90% accuracy for 16 static gestures and 9 dynamic gestures on webcam with 720p@30fps.

Skill Set

Programming: Python, C/C++, SQL, RISC-V Assembly, Verilog, CSS, Shell Software: Matlab, Qt Designer, Arduino IDE, Vivado, Origin Lab, Solidworks