About

Mingchuan Dong is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer with over 4 years of experience in the field. Currently, he is working with Mathworks as a Software Engineer, where he is responsible for Add-Ons Installation and Repository Manager. He has worked on 5 industry-level and customer-facing projects that cover popular topics such as shopping websites, social media web applications, and events recommendation systems. Apart from his professional experience, Mingchuan has 1 year of research experience in the data compression/decompression area. He worked as a Research Assistant at UC Irvine, where he conducted research on DNA sequence lossless compression/decompression. He also developed a Java application that implemented an improved version of the Huffman algorithm and Slepian Wolf coding of correlated source methods. The application was tested with 1.5 GB of DNA-sequence data, and he improved the overall compression rate of DNA sequences by 10% and optimized the storage usage by 17%. Mingchuan has also worked as a Student Ambassador at the University of California, Riverside. He worked with 5 other Ambassadors to help new students get started in APP and held weekly meetings to exchange teaching experiences. He also led a group of 7 foreign students to help them overcome culture shock by holding weekly discussions on adjustment, social support, and resources on campus. He planned and held a Scavenger Hunt Game to help students gain familiarity with the campus. Mingchuan has a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, which he completed in 2019. He also has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from the University of California, which he completed in 2017. He also has a background in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, which he studied at the University of California, Riverside. Mingchuan's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Recommendation Systems, Research Science, Web Development, and Java. With 4.19 years of relevant experience, he is a highly skilled professional who can bring value to any team.