Personal Profile
General Information
Full Name | Haowei Cheng |
Contact | haowei.cheng [at] fuji [dot] waseda [dot] com |
Languages | Chinese (Native), English (Fluent), Japanese (Fluent), Spanish (Beginner) |
Research Areas
- My research focuses on improving the reliability of intelligent software and systems using Generative AI-driven requirements engineering.
- Additionally, I'm interested in ensuring trustworthy AI, with a specific focus on Explainable AI (XAI).
Education
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2024 - 2027
Waseda University – Ph.D. in Computer Science
- Advised by Prof. Hironori Washizaki and Prof.Naoyasu Ubayashi
- Research Interests: Intelligent Software Engineering, Generative AI, Trustworthy AI
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2021 - 2023
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST) – M.S. in Information Science
- Advised by Prof.Masashi Unoki
- Thesis: Study on Deep-fake Speech Detection Based on Spectro-temporal Modulation Analysis
- Research Interests: Speech Signal Processing, Machine Learning
- GPA: 84.16/100
Work Experience
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2024 - now
Machine Learning Engineer at QAML, Inc.
- Tokyo, Japan
- Job Description:
- Collecting ML Data and labelling and programming for the collection from sensor and the pre/post-processes
- Training and inference of ML
- Tool development for visualization of inference results or test datasets
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2024 - now
Co-Chair at Waseda University Mu Tau chapter
- Tokyo, Japan
- Description: Waseda University Mu Tau chapter is the first IEEE Eta Kappa Nu chapter in Japan. The chapter was founded on July 22, 2018 during the IEEE COMPSAC 2018 in Tokyo.
- Our mission: To promote excellence in research and to serve the students of the Electrical Engineering community at Waseda with academic support and services.
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2022 - 2023
English Teaching Assistant
- Nomi city, Ishikawa, Japan
- Nomi International Exchange Association / 能美市国際交流協会
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Summer 2019
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Summer 2020Software Engineering Intern
- Xi'an city, Shannxi, China
- Company name: Xi'an Yunchuang Power Information Technology Co., Ltd
Professional Experience
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2022 - 2023
Deep-fake Speech Detection (Master's Project)
- Analyzed the concept of Spectro-temporal Modulation (STM) representation in human auditory mechanism.
- Applied the light convolutional neural network bidirectional long short-term memory (LCNN-BiLSTM) model that utilizes STM representations for efficient deep-fake speech detection.
- This work offers theoretical support for a fake speech detection system (EER of 42.10%)
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2022
Machine Learning - Text Classification
- Converting text to vectors (Tfidf, word2vec)
- Using multilayer perceptron (MLP) training, the accuracy reaches 0.98 (200 iterations)
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2022
Speech Recognition-Speaker Recognition
- Speech signal processing: add white noise (MFCC), design filters (IRR, FIR)
- Speaker recognition: training model (GMM), calculating match scores
- Accuracy rate: 96.21%
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2021
Operating Systems - File System Implementation
- Simulates a simple file system using bitmaps and other methods to allocate space appropriately.
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2020
Class Assistant Sign-in Management Project
- Analyzed the current situation of "Digital Classroom" for students at home and abroad.
- Applied the theory of session to the management of user log-in and authorities.
- Applied major technologies (Spring Boot, Bootstrap) to realize system function.
- Tested and optimized the project.
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2020
Design of COVID-19 Visualization Platform in China
- Analyzed the National Health Commission and Baidu Inc’s COVID-19 data.
- Utilized Web Crawler to collected, cleaned, and adjusted the raw data (Python Scrapy).
- Design a reasonable database (MySQL) and visualize the data (Flask, Echarts).
Honors and Awards
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Scholarships
- Scholarship for Fostering Researchers in Doctoral Programs (Sept. 2024)
- Issued by Waseda University
- The scholarship helps students in a doctoral program become outstanding scholars with superior research capabilities and extensive knowledge of their fields.
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Fellowships
- Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation (W-SPRING) (April 2024 - March 2027)
- Issued by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Description: This program aims to lead the future of science, technology and innovation, and to promote the development of diverse career paths for widespread success of doctoral human resources.
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Scholarships
- National Encourage Scholarship (2018 - 2021)
- Issued by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
- Description: This program aims to motivate students with financial difficulties, who got outstanding achievements academically as well as in extracurricular areas.
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Scholarships
- The Frist Prize Scholarship of LZIT (2018 - 2021)
- Issued by Lanzhou Institute of Technology
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Awards
- Honor graduate of LZIT (2021)
- First Prize, Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (2020)
- First Prize, "Software Engineering Cup" Programming Competition (2020)
- Excellent Software Engineer Intern, in Xi'an Yunchuang Power Information Technology Co., Ltd (2019,2020)
Computer Skills
- ○ Programming languages: C, C++, Python, Matlab, Java.
- ○ Frameworks: Tensorflow, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas.
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Piano, Motorcycle, Diving, Tennis, Hiking