Joseph Wang

Experience

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  University of Minnesota

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Engineering Research Intern

  * Cut data collection time by 60% for live-mice neuro-engineering experiments by prototyping automated Bonsai (C#) scripts.

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  Air Force Civilian Service

  May 2021 - Aug 2021

  Electronics Engineer Intern

  * Pair-programmed with another intern to code 20+ hardware unit tests with 90%+ coverage for digital and analog logic for aircraft simulation circuit cards.* Decoded and debugged 1553 serial communication (MIL-STD-1553) for Boeing B-52 Stratofortress avionics.

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  Google

  May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Software Engineering Intern

  * Developed cast streaming integration test for Chrome on Fuchsia operating system with 14 code changes in open-source Chromium codebase, creating C++ shell browser with JavaScript injection to send video frames and Python GPU pixel test.* Deployed tests to continuous integration (CI) buildbot to run 20+ builds a day.

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  USC Information Sciences Institute

  May 2024 - now

  Student Researcher

  * Trained long-context and state space models (M2-BERT, LongFormer) in multi-node, multi-GPU settings with distributed data parallel to perform dense passage retrieval with PyTorch on legal dataset of 1.84M U.S. caselaw documents and 23.7M passages.* Collected 450k U.S. district court opinions to evaluate 20 masked and autoregressive models across 7 model families (ALBERT, BART, BERT, BLOOM, GPT-2, OPT, RoBERTa) on sentence-pair bias benchmarks.