Experiences

Sumary

XinYi (Karen) Zheng

Dual degree student at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in Computer Science and Operation Information and Decision. TAed several programming classes, served as a research assistant for consumer psychology research projects. Current Intern at Microsoft.

  • Philadelphia, PA
  • karenzxy@seas.upenn.edu

Education

Bachelor of Applied Science

Computer Science

2018 - 2022

University of Pennsylvania, Jerome Fisher M&T Program, PA

Relevant courses: Data Structures and Algorithms; Internet and Web Systems; Big Data Analytics; AI; NLP; Web Programming

Bachelor of Science in Economics

Operation Information and Decision

2018 - 2022

University of Pennsylvania, Jerome Fisher M&T Program, PA

Relevant courses: Management of Technology, Analytics and the Digital Economy, Corporate Finance, Probability, Social Psychology, Introduction to Marketing

Professional Experience

Program Manager Intern

Summer 2021

Microsoft, remote

  • Based on telemetry analysis and customer voice, improved the UX for cloud file opens on Office Windows client apps. Wrote 10-page functional spec and produced prototype in Figma. Tested my solution with 6 users

Head Teaching Assistant for CIS550 Database and Information Systems

2020.9-Present

Penn Engineering, Philadelphia, PA

  • Hold weekly office hours and recitations to help students understand concepts such as database design, SQL, MongoDB, GraphQL, query optimization, and backend development

Teaching Assistant for CIS555 Internet and Web Systems

2020.12-Present

Penn Engineering, Philadelphia, PA

  • Hold weekly office hours for 100+ students on concepts such as complex system design, concurrency, SparkJava, web crawler, XPath matching engine, Apache Storm, and MapReduce
  • Help students build an academic clone of Google, implementing a crawler, indexer, page rank system, and search engine

Program Manager + Software Engineer (Explore) Intern

2020.5-2020.8

Microsoft, Redmond, WA

  • Designed and built a communication feature for Fluid components to improve virtual collaboration experiences with 2 interns under the Fluid Framework Experiences team

Technical Assistant

2019.9-Present

Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative, Philadelphia, PA

  • Help develop an online Python course for people with non-CS backgrounds
  • TA Python and SQL workshops for Wharton MBAs

Research Assistant

2019.6-Present

The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA

  • Conduct consumer psychology research; test machine learning models for text mining
  • Use Python and R to perform topic modeling, web scraping, data cleaning, and data processing

Externships

  • Tencent Lighthouse Initiative - November 2020
  • BCG Advance - Summer 2020
  • PIMCO Prep - June 2020
  • Goldman Sachs Engineering Essentials - June 2020
  • Morgan Stanley Technology Early Insights - May 2020
  • Square Code Camp - August 2019

Competitions

  • Citadel Terminal East Coast Regional - Second Place, Feb. 2021