James Hou
Regeneron STS Scholar at Society for Science- Claim this Profile
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Spanish Professional working proficiency
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Credentials
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Responsible Conduct of Research in Engineering
CITI ProgramJun, 2022- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Society for Science
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Regeneron STS Scholar
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Jan 2023 - Present
Named a 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar. Considered the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors, 300 scholars were selected from 1,949 applications based on their outstanding research, leadership skills, community involvement, commitment to academics, creativity in asking scientific questions, and exceptional promise as STEM leaders. Named a 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar. Considered the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors, 300 scholars were selected from 1,949 applications based on their outstanding research, leadership skills, community involvement, commitment to academics, creativity in asking scientific questions, and exceptional promise as STEM leaders.
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Anzu Partners
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United States
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Summer Investment Analyst
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Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
- Conducted market landscaping/surveying for Gen AI-related infrastructure and investment. - Supported portfolio companies with commercial traction, competitive analysis and top-of-the-funnel efforts. - Drove internal optimization projects for Capital Solutions and showroom. - Conducted market landscaping/surveying for Gen AI-related infrastructure and investment. - Supported portfolio companies with commercial traction, competitive analysis and top-of-the-funnel efforts. - Drove internal optimization projects for Capital Solutions and showroom.
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The Bishop's School
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United States
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Primary and Secondary Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Equal AI Initiative
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May 2022 - Jun 2023
Making AI more accessible to all through collaborative efforts of students in developing open curriculum and community events. Making AI more accessible to all through collaborative efforts of students in developing open curriculum and community events.
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Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair
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United States
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Education Management
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1 - 100 Employee
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Student Leader Board Member and Contestant
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Sep 2020 - Mar 2023
Two-year fair participant and Student Leader Board member to mentor students for science fairs. Independently researched and developed solutions to racial bias in the machine learning Natural Language Processing model. 2021 GSDSEF Senior Physical Science Grand Award Runner-Up 2021, 2022 GSDSEF Computer Science Category Senior Division First Award 2021 Ricoh Sustainable Development Award 2021, 2022 California Science & Engineering Fair Qualifier 2021-Present GSDSEF Student Leader Board member 2021: Independently developed novel analysis pipeline to analyze racial bias present within BERT. Used frameworks and libraries such as matplotlib and PyTorch. 2022: Independently developed state-of-art technique to effectively debias through Adapter and loss based methods. 1st author research paper for peer-review journal publication. Show less
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United States
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Non-profit Organization Management
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Team Lead
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Aug 2018 - Mar 2023
2021-2022: World Championship (WC) Inspire Award Finalist (Top 3), WC Finalist Alliance Captain (#2), 2x and Current World Record holder, San Diego Regional Champion, WC Qualifier. 2020-2021: San Diego Regional Inspire Award Winner, WC Qualifier (canceled due to COVID) 2019-2020: Arizona State Champion, San Diego Regional Final Four, WC Qualifier (canceled due to COVID) 2018-2019: San Diego Regional Champion, Inspire Award Winner, WC Qualifier 2021-2022: World Championship (WC) Inspire Award Finalist (Top 3), WC Finalist Alliance Captain (#2), 2x and Current World Record holder, San Diego Regional Champion, WC Qualifier. 2020-2021: San Diego Regional Inspire Award Winner, WC Qualifier (canceled due to COVID) 2019-2020: Arizona State Champion, San Diego Regional Final Four, WC Qualifier (canceled due to COVID) 2018-2019: San Diego Regional Champion, Inspire Award Winner, WC Qualifier
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Simons Foundation
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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300 - 400 Employee
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Simons Summer Research Fellow
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Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Worked with Professor Susu Xu to apply AI/LLM towards earthquake applications in collaboration with USGS Nominated by The Bishop’s School as one of the two candidates among the 600 candidates recommended by highschools nationwide, and selected as the final 40 Simons fellows for the 2022 SSRP program.. Working with US Geological Survey (USGS): strong impression and likely integration into the PAGER model Applying few-shot learning and large language models to extract casualty statistics from noisy social media on a real-time basis. 1st author research paper in The 4th Workshop on Continual and Multimodal Learning for Internet of Things. Show less
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UCSD Cognitive Science Department
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Student Researcher
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Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Key contributor to advanced computer vision & recognition research with Professor Zhuowen Tu and PhD students. Participation in lab meetings and discussions. 2nd Author of research paper on machine learning computer vision. 2020 summer: Assisted with experiments on Contrastive Learning and Variational Autoencoders. 2020-2021: Worked on independent projects on Variational Autoencoders and White-box Attacks. 2021-2022: Partnered with PhD student and Professor to develop novel Transformer-based architectures for point cloud recognition and segmentation. Show less
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San Diego Supercomputer Center
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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REHS Researcher
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Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Conducted independent bioinformatics research at Supercomputer Center, applying machine learning in bioinformatics. Research helps significantly speed up the search for COVID treatment. Initiated and successfully completed project applying machine learning techniques to economically and rapidly identify potential treatment drugs to combat cytokine storm attacks in severe COVID-19 patients. Continued research following the summer program and expanded research into a complete research paper as 1st author. Show less
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Education
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2023 - 2027
Caltech
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2019 - 2023
The Bishop's School
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