• Education

    University of Birmingham Dubai, UAE - MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science

    Sep 2023 - Nov 2023

    • Key Modules: AI programming; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Computer Systems; Current Topics in AI and ML; Data Structures, Algorithms and Databases; Software Workshop.

    • Alibaba Cloud X RTA AI Hackathon, DubAI Student Challenge, UI/UX Design Hackathon.

    • Executive Team Member and Postgraduate Representative of the UoBD ACM Chapter; Member of the UoBD Computing Club; PG Student Representative of the UoB School of Computer Science; Student Representative of the UoB School of Computer Science.

    University of Nottingham, UK - BA (Hons) in International Media and Communications Studies

    Sep 2012 - Jul 2016

    • Head of the Organisation Department at the Chinese Students and Scholars Association; Boxer of the UoN Boxing Team; President of the UNNC Boxing Club.

    • Represented the university as an amateur boxer and fought in British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS).

  • Work Experience

    Masary Capital - Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Full-time, Dubai, UAE

    Feb 2024 - Present

    RelphaCare Technologies - Machine Learning Engineer, Intern, Dubai, UAE

    Jan 2024 - April 2024

    Independently developed and deployed a speech-based NLP application for healthcare scenarios.

    • Built an end-to-end voice pipeline using OpenAI Whisper for ASR and Pyannote for speaker diarization.

    • Achieved 8.3% DER and 6.9% WER by optimizing each stage of the audio processing workflow.

    • Deployed the system on AWS SageMaker, RDS, and S3, ensuring scalability and automated deployment.

    Zhejiang University - Software Developer, Intern, Hangzhou, China

    Dec 2022 - Aug 2023

    Led the development of a certification data visualization system to support international compliance reporting.

    • Developed a full-stack data visualization system using Django for the backend and a classic web stack (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery) for the frontend.

    • Crawled and structured 4,000+ entries from four countries using BeautifulSoup, Pandas, and managed them in MySQL.

    • Automated data updates using Crontab, and created dynamic visualizations with Apache ECharts.

  • Extra-curricular

    OpenVINO Open-Source Contributor - Intel Corporation, Dubai

    Jun 2024 - Jun 2024

    • Enhanced OpenVINO TensorFlow Frontend with support for the "MatrixInverse" operation in C++ & Python.

    • Implemented the functionality collaboratively and submitted a pull request (PR #23881) reviewed and merged by an AI Frameworks Engineer & Technical Lead, Roman Kazantsev, at Intel Corporation.

    Student Recruitment Ambassador - University of Birmingham Dubai

    Jul 2024 - Sep 2024

    • Outreach and Admissions: Proactively engaged with prospective students, providing information and managing admissions paperwork.

    • Campus Representation: Led campus tours and represented the university with a positive figure.

    Masters Consultancy Challenge - Turner & Townsend, UK & Dubai

    Jun 2024 - Jun 2024

    • Sustainability Consulting: Led a team to develop energy-efficient building designs, creating a comprehensive business case and compelling presentation.

    • Professionally crafted executive summaries, pitch scripts, and videos to engage stakeholders and meet sustainability regulations.

  • Skills

    Languages

    • Chinese (Native), English (Fluent), Russian (Elementary), Spanish (Elementary).

    Programming Languages

    • C/C++, Python

    • Django, REST API, Matplotlib, Numpy, OpenCV, Pandas, Pytorch, TensorFlow

    • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native

    • SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite).

    Tools and Platform

    • AWS, Azure, Docker, Git.

    • Flowchart, Git, Prompt Engineering, Pseudocode, Unified Modeling Language (UML).

    CV - Resume

    Hongbo Wei's Curriculum vitae (CV) - Resume