CV:General
| Li Quan Khoo |  li.khoo.11@ucl.ac.uk
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changtau2005@gmail.com |
 http://lqkhoo.com/wiki
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 https://github.com/lqkhoo
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 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/li-quan-khoo/89/a27/8aa
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ExperienceResearch Intern
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June 2014 - August 2014
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Microsoft Research Cambridge
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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.
Software Developer
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June 2013 - 2014
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Unientry.Ltd
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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.
MEng dissertation: Personality Prediction from Twitter
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October 2015 - April 2015
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UCL Computer Science
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A 6-month multi-objective study using lexicon-based machine learning methods. Different forms of data normalization and representation were investigated, and TweetNLP features, which had not been used in this domain before, were evaluated to be highly useful. Our best models outperform 11 out of 15 state-of-the-art models in recent literature. Currently working with research group towards publication.
Research Project: Task identification in search engine query logs
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Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
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UCL Computer Science
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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 work was awarded best undergraduate research project in our year.
SynthJS - Music made quick
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Dec 2013
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A 2-week experiment in music synthesis and representation using HTML5-based technologies and an exercise in UI design.
The original intention was 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
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Sep 2012 - May 2013
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UCL Computer Science
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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
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Apr 2013
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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.
Robot Race
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2012
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UCL Computer Science
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To program a maze-solving robot in C. Final algorithm is based on a wall-follower. Team placed 10th out of 30.
Project: Android App
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2012
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To develop an Android app for the Restless Beings charity to conduct field studies on children in poorly-developed countries.
Public wiki administration and community management
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Feb 2010 - present
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Wiki administrator for kirby.wikia.com. I am responsible for implementing and maintaining templates, scripts, and the custom AJAX/MediaWiki Youtube player for site-wide soundtrack documentation. Where necessary, I offer guidance to other users and mediate discussions on technical and site policy-related matters.
EducationUniversity College London
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2011 - present
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MEng Computer Science, First class (expected, 2015)
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Current institution of study.
- 4th Year runner-up in Information Retrieval and Data Mining Prize (poster presentation)
- 3rd Year Best Research Project and Presentation
Hokkaido Japanese Language School
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2014
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Month-long intensive course with home stay in Sapporo, Japan, to supplement my self study.
Imperial College London
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2009 - 2011
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MBBS Medicine
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Withdrew during second year to transition to computer science.
Concord College, Shrewsbury
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2008 - 2009
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A levels (Pre-A*)
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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
High school: SMJK Jit Sin (Malaysia)
- Instructor / lead player for bowed string instruments in a semi-professional Chinese orchestra. We perform and compete internationally - in Malaysia, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Thailand.
- Invitational performance at the 27th International Society for Music Education World Conference 2006, Kuala Lumpur.
Skills and interestsInterests
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Spoken languages
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