Curriculum Vitae

Rice University student majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics.

Education

• GPA: 3.95/4.0
• Majors: B.S. Computer Science and B.A. Mathematics
• Roy Trustee Distinguished Scholarship Recipient: merit-based scholarship of $100,000 awarded by Rice University.

Experience

• Incoming Software Engineer Intern at Datadog for Summer 2024.

• Launch iOS development of 6 financial widgets for Vrbo Owner app using Swift, GraphQL, Apollo, Postman API.
• Display revenue graph, monthly profit/bookings in WidgetKit; fetch JSON every 15 minutes via TimelineProvider.
• Synchronize 50+ parallel HTTP calls to decode internal payout data in DispatchGroup; increase speedup by 120x.
• Leverage Bloomberg’s currency conversion API; support 160 world currencies for rental payouts using device locale.

• Teach Python, Big-O Analysis, A* Search Algorithm, DFS, BFS, LASSO regression to 500+ students in COMP 140.
• Instruct 250+ students in COMP 215 in object-oriented programming, test-driven development, and Java projects.
• Tutor 120+ students in MATH 355; linear algebra topics cover Vector Spaces, Eigenvalues, Gram-Schmidt Process.

• Selected by the CPRIT-CURE Summer Undergraduate Program for Summer 2022, which has a 15% acceptance rate from a pool of over 400 applicants.
• Elucidate the effect of BH3-mimetics on acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cell lines and on CD8+ T-Cells under the guidance of Dr. Cassian Yee.
• Utilized flow cytometry procedures and carried out cell culturing protocols.

• Investigated the Unfolded Protein Response and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) under the guidance of Dr. Richard Green.
• Co-authored and visualized significant differential pathway analyses in 2 papers in PLOS ONE and Journal of Lipid Research.

• Coded the formatting, design, and on-click interactions of the dashboard, sign-up, log-in, blog, and FAQ pages of a social platform that aims to bridge the gap between 6,000 elderly and youth through intergenerational video calls in 50 states and 22+ countries.
• Utilized ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to develop the interactive user interface and integrated changes with backend using Git.
• Prototyped website and mobile application layouts and animations using Figma in correspondence with team’s product designer.

Publications

Hepatic Deletion of X-Box Binding Protein 1 in FXR Null Mice Leads to Enhanced Liver Injury

Liu, Xiaoying, et al. "Hepatic Deletion of X-box Binding Protein 1 in Farnesoid X Receptor Null Mice Leads to Enhanced Liver Injury." bioRxiv (2022).

Mechanisms of liver injury in high fat sugar diet fed mice that lack hepatocyte X-box binding protein 1

Liu X, Taylor SA, Gromer KD, Zhang D, Hubchak SC, LeCuyer BE, Iwawaki T, Shi Z, Rockey DC, Green RM. Mechanisms of liver injury in high fat sugar diet fed mice that lack hepatocyte X-box binding protein 1. PLoS One. 2022 Jan 14;17(1):e0261789. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261789. PMID: 35030194; PMCID: PMC8759640.

Mechanical and tribological properties of polymers and polymer-based composites

Brostow, Witold, et al. "Mechanical and tribological properties of polymers and polymer-based composites." Chem Chem Tech 14 (2020): 514-520.

Tensile elongation at break for polymers related to Vickers hardness

Brostow, Witold, and Danny Zhang. "Tensile elongation at break for polymers related to Vickers hardness." Materials Letters 276 (2020): 128179.

A relation between flexibility and thermal conductivity of polymers

Brostow, W.; Fałtynowicz, H.; Zhang, D. A Relation Between Flexibility And Thermal Conductivity of Polymers. Preprints 2020, 2020060230

Projects

• Todoify: Developed a full-stack web application that organizes to-do items using an inbox/calendar system. Store projects, folders, and to-do items in JSON format to localStorage in the user’s computer using the Web Storage API (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, FlexBox, Webpack, NPM, Git).
• Natural Language Processing: Performed English part-of-speech (POS) tagging using Hidden Markov Models and Bayesian Inference on 2,000,000 training words. Implemented Viterbi’s algorithm on bigram and trigram models to achieve up to 97% accuracy on testing data of 900+ words (Python).
• CovidScreen: Built a web application that predicts whether user has COVID-19 through a series of diagnostic questions using JavaScript events (ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, MaterialUI, Git).

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages: Proficient in Python, Java, C++, C, JavaScript, R.
• Mobile Development: Swift, Kotlin, GraphQL.
• Web Development: ReactJS, HTML, CSS.

Leadership

• Webmaster and Promotions Chair of the Rice Pre-Medical Society.