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Basics

Name Zerui "Jerry" Ma
Label Prospect Ph.D. Student
Email jerryma@smu.edu
Phone (747) 289-8602
Url https://jerma88.github.io/
Summary Currently finishing a Bachelor in CS, Math and Data Science. Interested in academic research. Click the PDF icon to download my resume.

Interests

Machine Learning
Neural Networks
Natural Language Processing
Transformer-based Models
Large Language Models
Computational Linguistics
Parallel Programming
Theoretical Machine Learning
Machine Learning with Medical Data
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Quantum Computing

Education

  • Aug 2022 - May 2025

    Dallas, Texas

    Bachelor
    Southen Methodist University
    Computer Science, Mathematics, Data Science

Publications

Research experience

Fellowship grants

Teaching experience

Projects

  • Dec 2023 - Ongoing
    Personality LLM Research
    Using PyTorch and Transformer to fine-tune a custom LLM to predict Big-Five Personality Traits. Involved in preprocessing real-life interview data and fine-tuning BERT and Llama models.
    • Extracted fine-tuned roBERTa embeddings for Recurrent Neural Networks training.
    • Ran batch jobs on HPC and managed complex data structures using Ubuntu Linux commands.
  • June 2024 - Ongoing
    Individual Research - Recommender Systems
    Conducting research as part of the Robert Mayer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, building a recommendation system using Set-Cover Algorithms to improve university curriculum advising.
    • Built a relational database with web-scraped data.
    • Developed a system for retrieving accurate course recommendations based on student history.
  • July 2024 - July 2024
    Governor's Champion Summer Camp
    Taught a course for high school students on AI and machine learning, covering topics such as intelligent agents, data preprocessing, and algorithms.
    • Developed the curriculum and coordinated with colleagues to deliver engaging hands-on projects.
  • June 2024 - Aug 2024
    RAG Application Full Stack Development
    Developed a medical transcript summarization tool using LangChain and Python. Hosted a vector database to enhance LLM-based medical diagnosis using GPT-4.
    • Increased medical diagnosis efficiency by streamlining review of patient histories.

Skills

Programming
Python
C++
Java
Shell Script
SQL
STM/MIPS ASM
JS/HTML/CSS
Swift
AI/ML
PyTorch
scikit-learn
HPC
batch job
Dask
YOLO
DDP
VIM
DevOps
Git/GitHub
REST API
Jekyll
GNU
Valgrind
Docker
Jupyter
Azure
Operating Systems & Other
Linux (Arch, Ubuntu)
Windows 7-11
MacOS
LaTeX
Markdown
R
Web Scraping
Microsoft Office

Work experience

Languages

Chinese
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Spanish
Conversational

Additional information