Matthew Tang

About Me

Hi! I'm Matthew. I'm a Machine Learning Engineer on TikTok's social recommendation team. I work on social network building, which includes friend recommendation and social content recommendation. I graduated in 2024 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with my Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science. Here are some really cool projects that I have been working on:

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Projects

Selective Image Content Filtering

Combining discriminative and generative image methods to filter out offensive content
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AI-nimator

Using AI to generate animations matching your mouth movement
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Data Augmentation Research

Research on the effects of data augmentation on distribution shift and model performance
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Deep Learning Theory

Various interesting proofs that I spent many hours on for my graudate course in DL theory
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Spacial-Temporal Prediction

Combining 3D U-Nets and RNN to predict on spacial temporal data
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Overparameterization

Research on the theoretical backing of the double descent phenomenon
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Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies

My implementation of the Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies paper
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C Proxy Server

SSL Proxy server impelmented in C
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