Hi, my name is Casper Wang (王政祺). I’m currently studying Computer Science at National Taiwan University. I am someone who is deeply committed to my dreams. I enjoy meeting new friends, listening to their stories. I love reading and coding.

我是王政祺,現就讀於臺大資工系,是一個對於夢想很執著的人。喜歡認識不同的朋友、聽大家的故事,喜歡有質感的人事物,喜歡閱讀,喜歡打 code。


Work Experience

Quantitative Trading Intern, A&R Research Capital

Apr 2024 – Jun 2024

  • Collaborated with traders and quantitative researchers to enhance trading strategies by adding new features and improving the process of analyzing daily trading results.
  • Built a maker fill probability prediction model for trading strategies, leveraging changes in order books.
  • Designed and implemented a trading log visualization tool, integrated into the post-trade pipeline for daily use.
Software Engineering Intern, Google

Jun 2023 – Aug 2023

  • Collaborated with the PTE Team to develop solutions for detecting crashes through user behavior simulation.
  • Developed a bug report summarization tool using a suffix array algorithm to detect recurring log patterns, leveraging large language models for advanced pattern analysis and contextual inference.
  • Engineered a user-centric Critical User Journey (CUJ) generation pipeline for crash detection, incorporating bug report summarization tools and optimizing paths with dynamic programming on directed graphs.
Software Engineering Intern, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Jun 2022 – Jul 2022

  • Migrated the CI/CD pipeline of the server management system from Drone CI to GitHub Actions for integration.
  • Streamlined the process of automating server setup for infra team by Ansible, an open-source software tool.

Research

Performance Bug Reasoning, UChicago Summer Research Program

Jun 2024 – present

  • Advisor: Prof. Kexin Pei, UChicago Department of Computer Science
  • Developed and experimented with a pipeline for generating stress tests for program performance evaluation,utilizing large language models to create test case generators based on given information.
  • Conducted comparative studies on the effectiveness of different test case generators, analyzing their impact on runtime discrepancies across problems in different programming languages.
Competition-Level Program Repair, Information Retrieval Lab

Sep 2023 – present

  • Advisor: Prof. Pu-Jen Cheng, NTU Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
  • Designed multiple debugging pipelines and conducted fine-tuning experiments on open-source code-based language models, aiming to improve performance in competition-level program debugging.
  • Built a dataset of 10K+ incorrect/correct solution pairs from real-world data for fine-tuning and evaluating models.
Voice Conversion with Autoencoders, Jianguo Gifted Program

Feb 2019 – May 2020

  • Advisor: Dr. Wei-Chao Chen, Chief Digital Officer & Senior VP at Inventec
  • Implemented the SOTA encoder-decoder based model and trained it with a mandarin chinese voice dataset.

Activities

Coordinator, TTCPC

Feb 2024 – May 2024

  • Led the organization of an inter-university programming contest, an ICPC-style competition involving around 30 teams, 80 contestants from the top three universities in Taiwan: NTU, NTHU, and NYCU.
Coordinator, IOICamp

Oct 2022 – Feb 2023

  • Led a team of 50+ people, organizing a winter camp that trained 72 high school/college students with coding background for top-tier programming contests like the International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI).
  • Raised USD$16000 from multiple firms such as JaneStreet, Systex, Mixerbox, and Sudo Research.
Vice Coordinator, APCSCamp

Mar 2021 – Aug 2022

  • Organized an online programming education program by integrating the expertise of CS students to create a comprehensive remote learning experience, allowing students to continue their education during COVID-19.
  • Led a team of 70+ people with the coordinator, managing the program for around 280 participants across Taiwan.

Awards & Honors

  • Gold Award, 2023 ICPC Asia Hue City Regional
  • Second Place, 2023 National Collegiate Programming Contest
  • Gold Award, 2021 ICPC Asia Taipei Regional
  • Prominent Mayor’s Award, Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School
  • Third Place, 2019 / 2020 National Problem Solving Contest