👋Hi there, I’m Forrest!

About me👀

I am a master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. I am interested in Information Retrieval and Machine Learning.

People I admire: My parents, Enrico Fermi

Motto “passion without motivation.” —Krishna

Milestones🎉

• 2024/09: Begin my journey in Computer Science🤗

Learning📖

I’ve always been an enthusiastic lifelong learner, and I am grateful that online course let me study wonderful materials whenever and whereever I can.

• 18.06 Linear Algebra from MIT
• EE364 Convex Optimization I and II from Stanford
• ECE602 Introduction to Optimization from Uwaterloo
• CS680 Introduction to Machine Learning from Uwaterloo
• Stochastical Process, taught by Yongyi Mao

Intern💼

• 2023/07 -2023/09: Software Engineering Intern at ENN Group(Trained and Deployed a GPT-based collaborative knowledge-base chatbot into Dingding)
• 2024/12 - 2025/08: Internship supervised by Jimmy Lin(Conducted reproduction experiments on a closed-source multilingual retrieval model at Google - SwimIR)
• 2025/09 - Now: Internship supervised by Yongyi Mao(Research topic about Generative AI/Hopfield Network)

Awards🏆

• Outstanding Conclusion of Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project, 2023. (Top 1%)
• School-level First-class scholarship, 2024. (Top 5%)

• Provincial Second Prize in Advanced Mathematics Contest, 2021. (Top 5%)