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My Curriculum Vitae
Basics
| Name | Zhaodong Liu |
| Label | Undergraduate Student |
| zl4789@nyu.edu | |
| Phone | +86 131-5629-6623 |
| Summary | A Computer Science and Mathematics double major student at New York University Shanghai with research experience in generative retrieval and large language models. |
Education
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2022.09 - 2026.05 Shanghai, China
Projects
- 2025.05 - Present
New York University Shanghai
Generative Retrieval for Recommendation System
- Advisor: Prof. Hongyi Wen (Department of Computer Science, Data Science and Engineering)
- Developed a multimodal framework to predict user behavioral patterns on Amazon datasets.
- Designed and evaluated model architectures, implemented quantization methods of VQ-VAE, RQ-VAE, OPQ, to capture discrete behavior patterns, achieving 47.2% performance improvement (from 0.0339 to 0.0499).
- Implemented a BPE-inspired partitioning tokenization, improving sequence coherence and representation quality
- 2024.09 - 2024.12
Center for Data Science, New York University
Finetuning on Pretrained LM to Efficiently Perform Retrosynthesis of Chemical Reactions
- Developed predictive models for chemical reaction retrosynthesis using SMILES notation.
- Applied an LLM for dataset reconstruction and augmentation, improving Top-1 Accuracy by 26.2% (from 0.588 to 0.742) while reducing reliance on expensive laboratory data.
- Employed fine-tuning strategies (encoder freezing, MLP adapters, LoRA) to optimize training efficiency.
- 2024.05 - 2024.08
New York University Shanghai
Driving Route Optimization Considering Traffic Light Timings
- Advisor: Prof. Zhibin Chen (Department of Computer Science, Data Science and Engineering)
- Built a traffic-aware driving route optimization model under real-world map and constraints on SUMO platform.
- Simulated model on real traffic signal datasets, reducing travel time compared to baseline routing algorithms.
- Applied energy consumption models for EV and gasoline vehicles, balancing energy efficiency and travel time.
Work
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2025.12 - Present Shanghai, China
Data Engineer
Data Strategy Department, McDonald's China
Worked on building and optimizing data infrastructure to support business intelligence and analytics for McDonald's China.
- Developed and validated scalable database schemas and enterprise-level data maps.
- Designed a similarity recommendation algorithm based on menu composition and user historical interactions.
- Implemented an AI agent that significantly enhanced data panel classification and visualization.
Volunteer
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2023.05 - 2024.08 Treasurer
Organized events and managed club financial operations.
- Managed financial operations and annual budgeting for student-led educational initiatives.
- Facilitated letter exchanges and Q&A sessions with high school students from Hunan Province.
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2022.09 - Present Trombone Section Leader
Directed the trombone section, coordinated rehearsals, and oversaw instrument storage logistics.
Awards
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Dean's List (AY: 2022–2023, 2023–2024, 2024–2025)
New York University Shanghai
Recognized for outstanding academic performance (GPA ≥ 3.7).
- 2023.05.01
Mathematical Contest in Modeling – Certificate of Achievement - Honorable Mention
COMAP
Built predictive models and performed Bayesian regression for market analysis after data preprocessing.
- 2022.11.01
Bloomberg Trading Challenge - Ranked 1st at NYU and 5th in Asia.
Bloomberg L.P.
Chose potential stocks through group discussion and operated the Bloomberg terminal to trade stocks on the US stock market (Sep 2022 - Nov 2022).
Skills
| Programming Languages | |
| Python | |
| Java | |
| C | |
| SQL | |
| Stata |
| Tools and Frameworks | |
| Git | |
| PyTorch | |
| Pandas | |
| NumPy | |
| LaTeX |
Languages
| Chinese | |
| Native |
| English | |
| Fluent |