Honors & Awards

1st place (1/180) in 2025 Illinois Datathon
Issued by UIUC & Synchrony

Apr 2025

  • Built time series models with rich feature engineering for spending prediction
  • Applied clustering (DBSCAN, BIRCH, Hierarchical) with neural network autoencoder-based dimensionality reduction
  • Designed hybrid rule-based & Random Forest recommendation system for credit limit adjustment
  • Delivered actionable insights for low-risk growth and risk control
LAS Dean's list (Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
Issued by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Top student academic achievement recognition
James Scholar
Issued by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2024 - Present

  • Academic excellence and a commitment to engaged inquisitive learning
  • Global citizenship, sustainability, and interdisciplinary growth
2nd place (2/51) in 2024 Sandia National Lab Data Challenge
Issued by UIUC & Sandia National Laboratories

Aug 2024

  • Developed CNN-LSTM model to predict bilingual proficiency from EEG signals
  • Identified key brain regions involved in language processing
  • Achieved over 94% prediction accuracy
National First Prize in Mathematical Modeling
Shanghai, China

Aug 2023

  • Led a team to develop machine learning models assessing maternal health impact on infant development
Tongji University Undergraduate Merit-based Scholarship
Issued by Tongji University

2022

  • Top academic performance recognition
37th Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO)
Issued by Chinese Physical Society

Nov 2020

  • First Prize in Jiangsu province
  • Second Prize nationally