Patrick Kwok

Software Engineer

HeartDub•  June 2022 - November 2022

Worked on code refactoring and debugging of particle-based cloth simulator on Unity game engine; Wrote an application that could record human body movements for use by cloth simulators; Initiated and participated in development of cloth simulator and virtual fitting room on Nvidia Omniverse platform.

Software Engineer

Amazon•  April 2020 - November 2021

Joined a team under Prime Video dedicated to the publishing of live events; Worked on the development of team-related infrastructure, including AWS resources; Designed and wrote a web application for debugging and issue resolution by partner teams; Implemented validations in the publishing process of live events, for debugging and error prevention purposes.

Research Assistant

Columbia Business School•  June 2019 - August 2019

Participated in a research project about the relationship between news articles and stock price movements; Wrote and tested Python programs for computing and analyzing stock returns data from TAQ prices.

Data Science Intern

Baozun Commerce•  June 2016 - August 2016

Built a classification model for e-commerce data that ran 25% faster than the previous model; Built a predictive model that could predict future sales performance with a relatively high accuracy; Analyzed e-commerce data using various statistical methods; Wrote programs in R for organizing, analyzing and visualizing data.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong

Mathematics and Economics, BS•  September 2012 - May 2016

Minor in Actuarial Mathematics. Graduated with First Class Honors.