Curriculum Vitae - Pan Chen

Education

2018 – 2022

Honours Bachelor of Science, University of Toronto

GPA: 3.89
Specialist in Computer Science, major in Statistics, minor in Math

Skills

Languages: Python, R, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML/CSS, SQL, C, C++, Bash
Libraries: NumPy, PyTorch, OpenCV, Matplotlib

Publications

2021

Chen, P., Sibia, N., Zavaleta Bernuy, A., & Liut, M. Investigating the Impact of Voice Response Options in Surveys. The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.

2021

Saxena, N., Chen, P., & Liu, E. (2021, June). Statistical Consequences of Dueling Bandits. RL4ED – EDM’21 Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Education.

Teaching

Fall 2021

Introduction to Computer Programming, University of Toronto, Teaching Assistant

Supervisor: Michael Liut

Fall 2021

Software Design, University of Toronto, Teaching Assistant

Supervisors: Paul Gries, Jonathan Calver, Lindsey Shorser

Research and Industrial Experience

2021 –

Programmer, Regulatory and Affective Dynamics Lab

Collaborated with the development of an application that trains people mental health skills by introducing intervention sessions

2020 –

Research Assistant, Intelligent Adaptive Interventions Lab

Advisor: Joseph Jay Williams
Collaborated with a homework reminder system deployed in a CS1 course with over 1000 students
Undergraduate lead for a project that trains participants for stress management by sending reflective questions
Developed tools for research purposes, such as Interactive Voice Response Collector for Qualtrics was used in a research project to give participants a choice to talk rather than text in a Qualtrics survey
Lead the lab website redesign team
Host the mentoring sessions

2020 – 2021

Software Developer, Infrastructures for Information

Core developer for a tool in Java that boosts productivity when working on multiple labelling documents.

2020 – 2021

Software Developer, TradeRev

Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2019

External Collaborator, The Hospital for Sick Children

Collaborated with the development of a platform where patients can have the sound of urine recorded in the mobile app of this platform

2016 –

Founder & Editor, Chen’s Notes

Created Chen’s Notes, which is a blog focused on technology
Keep updating this website, sharing my knowledge to every corner of the internet

Awards

2019 – 2021

Dean’s List Scholar

2021

ISSC Case Competition 2021 Most Creative Data/Topic Winner

Projects

Livability of Toronto

Analyzed how livable Toronto is using Python and R, won the most creative data prize in ISSC Case Competition and presented in Toronto Data Workshop

Mail tracker with personalized content

Conducted competitor analysis on the mail tracker applications in the market, and then designed and developed this mail tracker application that focuses on the research area
Researchers can send emails with personalized content, track the open of the emails and every single link inside the email body
Compatible with Gmail, Outlook, and other email services as long as the SMTP is correctly set up
Open-sourced this project so researchers can address data residency issues by hosting it locally

CVoice (Interactive Voice Response System)

An interactive voice response system that helps researchers bring voice response questions to the participants in a Qualtrics survey. Pre-built templates make it possible to do A/B testing
Used in a research project at a top 20 university

Face-Control Snake Game

A snake game where people move the snake to eat apples by moving faces
Deployed a machine learning model

Get UofT Access

A Chrome extension that automatically redirects webpage to myaccess.utoronto.ca with one click.
This extension has 22 regular users, most of them are researchers at the University of Toronto

Leadership

Mentor at Intelligent Adaptive Interventions Lab

Hosted bi-weekly mentoring session at this lab, sharing my experience and answer questions from the new lab members

Undergraduate lead for TenQ project

TenQ project is one of the projects at the IAI lab. I am the undergraduate lead for this project. My responsibility includes collaborating with the Ph.D. student to deploy experiment, doing data analysis, and hosting weekly meetings.

Personal

Citizenship: Chinese Citizen (also Canadian Permanent Resident)
Year of Birth: 1998
Languages: Mandarin (native), English (full professional), Japanese (elementary)
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada