B.S. Industrial and Operations Engineering 2025.08 - 2027.05
Introduction
Yukai Wang
B.S. candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Industrial & Operations Engineering
I am a dual-degree program undergraduate student in Shanghai Jiao Tong University Global College (Formerly, UM-SJTU Joint Institute). My current academic path combines Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University with Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. I am especially interested in how optimization, statistics, and engineering modeling can be applied to real-world problems.
Electrical & Computer EngineeringIndustrial & Operations EngineeringMachine LearningOptimizationStatistical InferenceResearch Communication
Education
My formal education is split across a dual-degree path in China and the United States, supported by international exchange experience.
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering 2023.08 - 2027.08
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Exchange Experience 2025.01
Technische Universitaet Berlin
Extracurricular / Experience
Outside formal coursework, I have worked across research, teaching, technical service, student leadership, and project-based development.
Research 2025.09 - Present
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, USA
See more details on the Research Orientation page.
Teaching 2025.05 - 2025.08
Teaching Assistant
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Global College
Shanghai, China
Assisted coursework delivery and student support in both laboratory and mathematics settings.
- PHYS1410J Physics Lab (Simple Harmonic Motion).
- MATH2140J Linear Algebra.
Technical Service 2023.10 - 2025.08
Campus Network Maintainer
Network & Information Management Organization, SJTU
Shanghai, China
Maintained wireless and wired dormitory networks, responded to student requests, and troubleshot stability issues.
Industry Project 2024.05 - 2024.08
Imitated Summer Intern
SilverFOCS-24su
Shanghai, China
Worked under program requirements to build two games, including a classic brick-breaking title and a more experimental rhythm-platformer.
- Built Mobius, a classic 2D collision-based game project.
- Built Soul Symphony, a 2D rhythm-platformer developed in Elm.
Service 2023.12 - 2025.05
Volunteer & International Program Support
Miyuan Youth Volunteer Team, International Program Office of SJTU-GC
Shanghai, China
Participated in rural education support, exchange-student assistance, labor education events, and visitor guidance during public science activities.
- Included support education in Hunan, campus service, and Space Day of China volunteering.
- Helped welcome and support exchange students from partner institutions.
Previous Courses
This section highlights courses that I found most impactful for my current research and technical interests. It is not an exhaustive transcript but rather a curated selection to show the breadth and depth of my training.
Each bubble shows the course title and where it was taken:
UM = University of Michigan, SJTU = Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Optimization, Probability & Decision
- Economic Decision Making
- Operations Engineering & Analytics
- Optimization and Computational Methods
- Introduction to Markov Processes
- Continuous Optimization Methods
- Probabilistic Methods in Engineering
Machine Learning & Data Analytics
- Introduction to Machine Learning
- Introduction to Engineering Data Analytics
- Data Analytics Tools and Techniques
- Advanced Data Analytics
- Computer Vision
Programming & Algorithms
- Programming and Elementary Data Structures
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Accelerated Intro to Computers & Programming
Mathematics & Foundations
- Honors Calculus II
- Honors Calculus III
- Honors Calculus IV
- Linear Algebra
- Discrete Mathematics
Electrical Engineering & Physics
- Intro to Circuits
- Intro to Signals and Systems
- Electromagnetics I
Intellectual Breather Courses
- Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Chinese History in Global Perspectives
- Science, Art and Philosophy
- German I
Selected Projects
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2025
Automatic Image Colorization with Enhanced U-Net Refinement
This computer vision project improves a pre-trained SIGGRAPH17 colorization baseline through a two-stage framework with an enhanced U-Net refinement module. The design combines single-step residual correction, a global color prior, and decoder self-attention to produce more vivid and semantically consistent results.
Computer VisionU-NetAttentionImage Colorization
2025
Fatal Police Shootings Statistical Analysis
This project studies fatal police shootings in the United States from 2015 to 2025 using visualization, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and prediction intervals. It examines Poisson behavior, weekday and month dependence, racial disparities across political contexts, and the influence of body-camera use.
StatisticsHypothesis TestingMathematicaSocial Data
2024
Soul Symphony
A 2D rhythm-platformer where players compose music to shape the environment, rescue lost souls, and explore a story of faith and sacrifice. The project was developed in Elm during the SilverFOCS internship program.
ElmGame DevelopmentRhythmPlatformer
Contact
If you are interested in research collaboration, coursework discussion, or project exchange, feel free to reach out through any of the following channels.