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General

Full Name Zhen Yuen Chong
Date of Birth 16th October 1999
Languages English, Mandarin, Malay

Education

  • 2021 - current
    Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Master of Engineering (Hons)
    University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    • Major in Information and Computer Engineering.
    • Rank 36/277, top 13th percentile in cohort.
    • Cambridge Engineering Tripos Part IIA Project Award, RISC-V Processor GB3
  • 2019 - current
    Bachelor of Engineering (Hons)
    University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • Major in Computer Engineering
    • Minor in Finance
    • First Class Honours, Cumulative GPA of 3.93
    • Awards
      • HKU Foundation Entrance Scholarship
      • EE72 HKU Chan Kam Yin Scholarship
      • HKU Engineering Dean’s Honours List (2020, 2021)
      • HKU Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG) 2022.

Experience

  • 2023 - current
    Visa Software Engineering Internship
    Visa Inc.
    • Open VisaNet Tools Team
    • Responsibilities
      • Gained hands-on experience with Visa’s distributed payments processing platform and its micro-service architecture.
      • Built a locally hosted Large Language Model (LLM) service using Llama v2 with LangChain and the Fast API framework to provide question answering services over Visa’s developer documentations to a team of 150 developers.
      • Developed CLI tools to retrieve/parse workspaces concurrently and dynamically generate service configuration files at runtime.
  • 2022 - 2023
    ARM Ltd Part Time Undergraduate Programme
    ARM Ltd
    • GPU Build systems and DevOps Software Engineer
    • Responsibilities
      • Performed preliminary refactoring of the GPU Driver Development Kit codebase in C/C++ to support remote build execution.
      • Setup hermetic build systems, test environments and CI/CD pipelines.
      • Wrote proprietary bash and Python scripts to automate the migration of repositories between GitLab instances across 10+ teams in the GPU division.
      • Spun out commonly used Python and NPM packages to the local GitLab registry to be made available upstream.
  • 2021
    HKU CS Research Internship Programme
    University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • Built an AI chatbot in Typescript to simulate patients for the medical faculty of HKU under the supervision of Dr Tsz Hon Yuen.
    • Developed methods for mapping unique replies to different descriptions of 100+ medical symptoms.
    • Implemented the required NLP functionalities with Dialogflow API and Mongo Atlas as the primary database.

Honors and Awards

  • 2017
    • Harvard Prize Book Award
  • 2016
    • National Literature Camp, 1st Runner Up
  • 2014, 2015
    • National Robotics Competition, 1st Runner Up

Academic Interests

Other Interests

  • Music, fine arts.