Sage Ren¶
Mission Statement¶
My name is Sage Ren, a junior from UC Berkeley. I am passionate about the intersection of art and technology, specifically generative art and computer vision. I have a strong understanding of BERT, OCR, Image Processing and Image segmentation, GANs and so forth.
Portfolio¶
Email: sage.shijie.ren (at) gmail.com
Github: https://github.com/umbravenus
Website: (OCR, BERT, Visualization, NLP) https://share.streamlit.io/umbravenus/streamlit/main/first_app.py
Website: (Recommendation Engine, CLIP, Text to Image) https://share.streamlit.io/umbravenus/ml4a-streamlit/main/app.py
App: (iOS Augmented Reality app) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/your-photo-in-ar/id1578206631
Work Experience¶
Company: Ancient World Citation Analysis (UC Berkeley)¶
Duration: Jan 2021 - present¶
Title: Undergraduate Student Researcher¶
Collabrated with peers and converted jupyter notebooks into machine learning web apps: https://share.streamlit.io/umbravenus/streamlit/main/first_app.py
Publised Jupyter book for Ancient World Citation Analysis:
Built Optical Character Recognition Model using Pytesseract.
Optimized Text Summarization and Paraphrasing using BERT model.
Configuring image segmentation tools for Ancient Artifacts.
Result: Helped lab deployed machine learning models, finetuned them, and accelerated the milestones of projects.
Company: Byzantine Ivories Imagebank (UC Berkeley)¶
Duration: June 2021 - present¶
Title: Undergraduate Student Researcher¶
Recruited new members and helped with training.
Led members to create documentation and tutorials.
Automated photoshop workflow with python, saved over half of the time and effort.
Created 3D Models from 2D Images using Photogrammetry techniques.
Result: Created several internal web apps for team efficiency, revolutionized the workflow.
Company: DSA Stroke Classification and Segmentation¶
Duration: Jan 2020 - Present¶
Title: Research Assistant¶
Finetuning image segmentation to layout areas of brain where blood flow is lacking or will be lacking.
Building image classification tool to predict whether or not the patient need surgeries.
Working with 100 scholars and peers with data labelling tool to ease daily workload.
Result: Enabled third-world country with less advanced equipments to use machine leanring to their advantage, patent pending.
Company: MuseFinder, San Diego, California¶
Duration: Jan 2017 - Dec 2019¶
Title: Organizer¶
Hosted events for around 500 artists to create a platform that connects artists together, with the goal of having artworks notarized by blockchain eventually.
Able to gain profits through events and gathered around 200 Interviews and numerous data from artists. The events were put on pause after I went back to school for Data Science.
Teaching Experience¶
Academic Intern for Data 8 Foundational Scholars Fall 2021
Academic Intern for Data 8 Summer 2021
SAT tutor for ACME WITTY 2013
Education¶
University of California, Berkeley¶
B.A in Data Science, Minor in Computer Science, Spring 2023
Awards & Achievements¶
Data Scholars, 2020 - Present
Hera Labs Scholarship for Women in Entrepreneurship, 2018, Seeding Cohort
Partner, Startup Leadership San Diego Chapter, 2017-2018
Personal Projects¶
Text to Music And Art Generator¶
Where the user inputs a keyword, and then we use table manipulation as well as search from API to generate art and music.
https://share.streamlit.io/umbravenus/ml4a-streamlit/main/app.py
Your Photo to AR (an iOS app)¶
A simple AR app that lets you see your photo in an AR setting.
Skills¶
Software Engineering, Software Development, Computer Science, Data Structures, Python, SQL, Linux, Git, Version Control, Optimizing Code, Photoshop, Illustrator, Video Editing, Web Development, HTML, CSS, 3D Modeling, 3D Printing, C++, Machine Learning, Computer Vision.