CV:General

Li Quan Khoo	li.khoo.11@ucl.ac.uk	changtau2005@gmail.com
	http://lqkhoo.com/wiki	https://github.com/lqkhoo
	http://www.linkedin.com/pub/li-quan-khoo/89/a27/8aa

Experience

Research Intern	June 2014 - August 2014
Microsoft Research Cambridge

8-week research internship through the Bright Minds Intern Competition programme for undergraduates, in the Machine Learning and Perception research group.

I worked on Project SmartFence - an application of machine learning on Bing data for personalized web access control. Users block and allow the sites they know and SmartFence infers the suitability of the rest of the web. Delivered a concept prototype for the OneWeek company-wide hackathon. Currently working on first-name publication.

Project supervisors: Pushmeet Kohli, Yoram Bachrach | Project members: Ulrich Paquet, Filip Radlinski

Software Developer	June 2013 - 2014
Unientry.Ltd

Delivered a pilot site for sixth form students and their teachers/mentors to find the right university for them. The platform publishes and filters information from the Higher Education Statistics Agency and gives recommendations based on students' perceived ability from their registered information and grades.

Scope: ~3 months + support | Team size: 3 | URL: http://www.unientry.org

Research Project: Task identification in search engine query logs	Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
UCL

Research on methods to semantically group user intent in search engine queries, using the semantic web. For instance, the search "hotels in Hawaii" would map the intent (finding out about) "hotels in" to the class <place>. We can then query these hierarchical classes to find tasks users commonly associate with them. This project was awarded best research work / presentation amongst our year.

Scope: ~3 months lit review, ~3 months research | Team size: 1-4 | Report: http://lqkhoo.com/wiki/index.php/File:Task_Identification_Using_Search_Engine_Query_Logs_-_Report.pdf

SynthJS - Music made quick	Dec 2013 - present

An experiment in music synthesis and representation using HTML5-based technologies and an exercise in UI design.

I intended to turn it into a JavaScript application to let people synthesize music quickly with little to no musical knowledge required - and then transform their creation into a personalized rhythm game. Progress is currently halted due to UI scaling performance issues.

Site: http://lqkhoo.com/synthjs | Dev diary: http://lqkhoo.com/wiki/index.php/Dev:SynthJS | Github: https://github.com/lqkhoo/SynthJS

Project: RoboHome	Sep 2012 - May 2013
UCL

To develop a home automation platform capable of controlling devices locally, as well as remote surveillance. Platform is capable of controlling Arduino, Gadgeteer, and Wiimo (Belkin) devices, and has limited voice recognition functions. Remote component is hosted on Azure, local server is a Raspberry Pi running ArchLinux, which our Flask-based Python backend runs on.

Scope: ~9 months | Team size: 5 | Project site: http://comp2013group7.wikia.com/wiki/Comp2013group7_Wiki

JP Morgan Spring Week 2013	Apr 2013

To implement a performant volatility calculator for a stream of options prices (to estimate the inverse of the Black-Scholes algorithm). Implementation was in Java, core algorithm is a simple Newton-Raphson iterator. Team awarded second best for code performance and code review, and best for presentation.

Scope: ~8 hours | Team size: 4

JP Morgan Code for Good Challenge 2012	Nov 2012

Code jam to develop a clip art application to raise awareness about nature in cities. Final application uses HTML5 canvas (Kinetic.js) with a PHP backend for uploads.

Scope: 48 hours | Team size: 4 | Source: https://github.com/horaceli/naturegram

Robot Race	2012
UCL Computer Science

To program a maze-solving robot in C. Final algorithm is based on a wall-follower. Team placed 10th out of 30.

Scope: ~3 months | Team size: 2

Project: Android App	2012
UCL Computer Science

To develop an Android app for the Restless Beings charity to conduct field studies on children in poorly-developed countries.

Scope: ~3 months | Team size: 2

Public wiki administration and community management	Feb 2010 - present

Wiki administrator / bureaucrat for kirby.wikia.com. My technical responsibilities include maintaining and implementing the custom theme, which I have overhauled from Wikia's default over several months, the templates in use, and the custom AJAX script + template wrapper used to pull soundtrack playlists off Youtube, to display them alongside documentation within a custom player.

Community management involves page patrols, user rights and site policy management, handling new anouncements from Nintendo, and liasing with Wikia regarding updates and MediaWiki plugins.

Scope: ~4years, ongoing | Team size: N/A | URL: http://kirby.wikia.com

Education

University College London	2011 - present
MEng Computer Science, First class (expected, 2015)

Current institution of study.

Hokkaido Japanese Language School	2014
Japanese language

Month-long intensive course with home stay in Sapporo, Japan, to supplement my self study.

Imperial College London	2009 - 2011
MBBS Medicine

Withdrew during second year to transition to computer science. No credits transferable.

Concord College, Shrewsbury	2008 - 2009
A levels (Pre-A*)

AAAAab (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, AS English literature, AS Music)

• Outstanding Chemistry Student of the Year 2008
• Outstanding Music Student of the Year 2008
• Hovercraft, solar buggy races participant

Skills and interests

C#

Java

Python

ASP.NET

HTML

CSS3

JavaScript

TypeScript

jQuery

Backbone.js

Knockout.js

SQL

MediaWiki

Interests

AI

Machine learning

Natural language processing

Game theory

Distributed systems

UI/UX

Design patterns

Japanese language

Social psychology

Piano

Erhu

Spoken languages

English

Mandarin

Malay