{"id":53,"date":"2018-09-26T21:57:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T01:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwp.gatech.edu\/htko\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2021-08-09T23:19:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T23:19:47","slug":"side-hobbies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hu2.me.gatech.edu\/Ko\/sample-page\/side-hobbies\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Education<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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I love to use knowledge to excite and inspire younger students. Other than my 1-1 mentoring and tutoring experiences. I spent a whole year teaching English in a rural area in Taiwan. At the college and graduate level, I have also taught a few lectures and hosted office hours. I enjoy designing and implementing interactive activities to engage students in my classroom.<\/p>\n

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Machine Learning<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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I started to study machine learning through the Coursera course offered by Standford professor Professor Andrew Ng. I am always following the trend in machine learning and see if I can use some knowledge for my fire ant research! Recently, I have used amazing deep learning packages such as DeepLabCut and SLEAP to track the movement of animal limbs.<\/p>\n

On a side note, despite the common hype on machine learning among the scientific community, I am frequently told to use discretion by my sister Irene Ko, who studies machine learning robustness at MIT as a graduate student.<\/p>\n

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Mechatronics Systems and Robotics<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I enjoyed learning and incorporating knowledge from different fields when designing robots. I am very proud of the most sophisticated robot I’ve made so far: an autonomous hockey-playing robot that can find and shoot the puck towards the goal! A list of the mechatronics projects I have worked on can be found\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Data and network science<\/strong><\/h2>\n

My interest in data science traced back to my sophomore year in college when I was about to join a research project on social media modeling based on the complex network dynamic theory. While I ended up joining a different lab (traffic flow project!), the readings I did for this project left a deep impression.<\/p>\n

The scale-free nature of the networks is truly fascinating. As I slowly enter the world of complex systems, I am thrill to meet some of the pioneers in this field!<\/p>\n

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Music<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Music is\u00a0 one of my favorite hobbies. I started to write songs a while ago and hopefully I will continue to write them! Some of the songs I wrote have been uploaded on my YouTube channel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Language<\/strong>\"Image<\/h2>\n

I am a big fan of languages too. I think language is the most important key to understanding a culture.<\/p>\n

Aside from Mandarin, my mother tongue, and English, I can speak fluently in Japanese. I also learned some German, Spanish, and Tibetan simply for the fun of it. I love how sentences are arranged differently in different languages. It shows how arbitrary language really is. There are many ways to communicate information.<\/p>\n

If an ant can learn many pheromone languages of the insect world, I imagine she would be surprised too!<\/p>\n

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Community Service<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I am always enthusiastic about making contributions to the communities and society around us. I look up to the kind of person who is not only brilliant in his\/her field but is also capable of bringing success to the people around him\/her.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of my most recent volunteering experiences is leading science projects as a mentor in Philadelphia local schools. The program was facilitated by\u00a0<\/span>iPraxis<\/span><\/a>, which was founded because the minority groups are highly underrepresented in scientific communities, especially in medicine-related fields.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Atlanta, I have been volunteering for Georgia Aquarium since October 2018. I love to amaze the visitors, young or old, with facts on marine animals and show them the importance of conservation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Education I love to use knowledge to excite and inspire younger students. Other than my 1-1 mentoring and tutoring experiences. I spent a whole year teaching English in a rural area in Taiwan. At the college and graduate level, I have also taught a few lectures and hosted office hours. I enjoy designing and implementing … <\/p>\n

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