**Hau-Yuan (Howard) Ding**
213-448-4674
hauyuand@usc.edu
www.linkedin.com/in/hauyuand/ | github.com/tonystark20

### **WORK EXPERIENCE**
**Fiscali Inc.**
*Software Engineer* (Advised by Prof. Hovig Tchalian, Marshall School of Business, USC)
• Designed and implemented a FinTech web application from scratch using React.js and Figma.
• Engineered a MySQL database and AWS Lambda backend for data management and extraction.
• Implemented Redux for state management to ensure consistency and scalability.

**IronYun Inc.**
*Data Engineer*
• Developed ETL pipelines to load 1M+ trading records from Taiwan Stock Exchange into databases.
• Built an AI system combining TCN and Auto-encoder for illegal trading detection (88% accuracy).
• Fine-tuned LLMs (BERT, ALBERT) for sentiment analysis and QA tasks using PyTorch.

**Industrial Technology Research Institute**
*Machine Learning Engineer Intern*
• Optimized manufacturing processes with ML, improving efficiency by 50% (98% accuracy).
• Researched AutoML algorithms to enhance ML efficiency.
• Developed GenAI using GANs for dataset augmentation and performance improvement.

### **PROJECTS**
**High Performance Computing Option Pricing** | C++, MPI, OpenMP, CUDA
• Simulated option pricing using Geometric Brownian Motion, reducing compute time from 1590ms to 30ms.

**Ticketmaster & iOS Application** | Express, Node.js, Angular, GCP
• Built an event search website with Ticketmaster/Spotify API integration.
• Developed front-end (Angular/iOS) and back-end (Flask/Node.js) hosted on GCP.

**Limited-Resources Database Simulation** | Python
• Simulated query execution with metadata blocks, external sorting, and nested-loop joins.

### **SKILLS**
- **Languages:** C, C++, Python, Java, TypeScript, SQL
- **Databases:** Spark, Hadoop, MapReduce, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase
- **Frameworks:** Angular, React.js, Node.js, Flask, PyTorch, TensorFlow
- **Parallel Computing:** MPI, OpenMP, CUDA

### **EDUCATION**
**M.S. in Computer Science**
University of Southern California (Dec 2023 – Present)

**B.S. in Computer Science**
National Tsing Hua University (Sep 2016 – Jun 2020)

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