Resume
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Kit Lee
web: wingkitlee0.github.io
email: wklee4993(at)gmail.com
Education
University of California, San Diego
PhD in Physics (Astrophysics)
Oct 2013
Thesis: Spiral Shock and Feathering Instabilities in Spiral Arms
Chinese University of Hong Kong
BSc in Physics
Sep 2007
Technical Experience
Abstract Analyzer
2018 – present
- A machine-learning web-app that can classify user’s summary of a paper into one of the astronomy categories. The classification task is done using the tensorflow library hosted on the serverless Amazon Lambda platform.
- Technologies: tensorflow, NLP
Alexa Skills on Amazon Echo devices (astro-ph)
2017 – present
- Allow users to listen to the 5 newest academic paper abstracts submitted to the preprint server arxiv.org.
- Technologies: JSON, RSS, AWS Lambda , flask-ask, zappa
- https://wingkitlee0.github.io/alexa_astroph/
Open Source Contributions
2018 – present
- A Python library for solving two-point boundary value problems, based on a well-known Fortran library.
- Technologies: Fortran, f2py, setuptools
- A Python wrapper for the MAGMA GPU linear algebra library, which allows drop-in replacement of scipy.
- Technologies: cuda, cusolver, blas, lapack
Arxiv Reader (Mobile)
2016
- An app to browse papers via the RSS feeds from arxiv.org. Over a hundred of acquisitions.
- Technologies: .NET, C#, Visual Studio
Freelance Projects
2009
- A large Fortran application was parallelized using OpenMP. Resulted in nearly linear-scalability of the program on multi-core machines. Received a 5-star review for the project.
- Technologies: Multi-threaded debugging, Fortran
Academic Experience
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Postdoc | Aug 2016 – Aug 2019
- Perform research on fluid dynamics of celestial objects, such as forming-planets and galaxies.
- Develop object-oriented C++ code to solve fluid problems based on the finite-difference method.
- Present published results in conferences/seminars as invited speaker.
- Awarded Microsoft Azure Research Grant in 2017 for code development ($20000)
Academic Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taipei, Taiwan
Postdoc | Oct 2013 – Aug 2016
- Developed a Python program to perform parallel execution of Fortran code on the multi-node environment.
- Participated in team development of a high-performance computational fluid dynamics code. Developed a parallel solver for Poisson equation using Fast Fourier Transform.
- Awarded a postdoctoral fellowship and a national paper award in 2015 for the project.
- Organized an international workshop and a hack day.
- Taught a course on Python in a summer school.
UC San Diego
Research Assistant | Aug 2008 – Sep 2013
- Created a new numerical algorithm to solve the coupled nonlinear differential equations.
- Awarded 200,000 cpu-hours from national computing facilities (Teragrid) to perform high-throughput parameter-sweeping calculations.
Additional Information
Languages: Chinese (Native), English (Professional)
Technical Skills (selected):
- C++, Python, Git, bash shell, Fortran, Linux, C, CUDA
- Experience in HPC (OpenMP, OpenMPI), cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP), and machine learning (tensorflow, keras, scikit-learn)
- Others: Mathematica, docker