Resume

Zitao Xing

Incoming M.S. student in Applied Mathematics (Operations Research) at Xiamen University, working across AI for Science, agent development, numerical methods, machine learning, GraphRAG, and graph algorithms.

Education

Xiamen University

Incoming M.S. in Applied Mathematics (Operations Research)

Starting Sep. 2026

Xiamen, China

Admitted through recommendation-based selection.

Xiamen University

B.S. in Mathematics

Sep. 2022 - Jun. 2026

Xiamen, China

University of California San Diego

University and Professional Studies (UPS) Program

Sep. 2024 - Dec. 2024

San Diego, California, USA

Completed a full-time university-credit study program at UC San Diego.

Internship Experience

AI for Science Research Reproduction

Algorithm Intern · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Research Institute

Aug. 2026 - Present

Shanghai, China

  • Conduct research reproduction in AI for Science by reviewing problem formulations, methods, experimental settings, and evaluation protocols.
  • Compare reproduced results with reported findings or baselines and document implementation choices, experimental observations, and remaining discrepancies.

Evo Wiki Development and Legal Knowledge Retrieval Exploration

Artificial Intelligence Development Intern · Shanghai Big Data Co., Ltd.

Jul. 2026 - Aug. 2026

Shanghai, China

  • Contributed to the development and improvement of Evo Wiki, an AI-native platform for maintainable Wiki and LightRAG workflows.
  • Explored knowledge-graph extraction from legal materials and retrieval-augmented generation, with attention to entity-relation modeling, retrieval quality, and traceable evidence.

Internship, Shanghai Regional Office

Intern · Harvest Fund Management Co., Ltd.

Jan. 2025 - Mar. 2025

Shanghai, China

  • Supported regional operations by organizing fund-product, market, client-service, and institutional-workflow materials.
  • Used Excel and PowerPoint to consolidate, clean, format, and present market information, product materials, and peer-company data.
  • Assisted with meeting preparation, client-document archiving, roadshows, and training materials.

Research & Projects

Shanghai Library Open Data Competition — Spatiotemporal Exploration Notebook

Project Member · Shanghai Library Open Data Competition

Aug. 2026

Shanghai, China

  • Co-developed a touch-first PWA that lets users handwrite people, places, experiences, and works directly on a digital paper interface.
  • Contributed to a workflow spanning handwriting transcription, constrained knowledge-graph retrieval, source-backed evidence verification, and traceable annotations.

AISE Summer Camp on Artificial Intelligence + Science and Engineering

Participant · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Jul. 2025 - Aug. 2025

Shenzhen, China

  • Completed intensive training in deep learning and AI for Science, including neural-network architectures, backpropagation, optimization, loss design, model training, and evaluation.
  • Built and trained a neural-network model, contributing to data preprocessing, architecture design, hyperparameter tuning, and experimental analysis.
  • Studied GPU parallel computing and CUDA fundamentals, including thread organization, memory management, and parallel acceleration for scientific computing.
  • Used Python and deep-learning frameworks to analyze how hyperparameters affect model convergence and generalization.

Functional Analysis Course GraphRAG: Construction and Feasibility Verification

Project Leader · National-Level Undergraduate Research Training Project

May 2025 - May 2026

Xiamen, China

  • Led a national-level project to build a knowledge-graph-enhanced retrieval system for a Functional Analysis course, coordinating planning, technical integration, validation, and presentation.
  • Structured course resources into chapters, concepts, theorems, worked examples, and questions, with explicit relationships among object types.
  • Built a course knowledge graph containing 95 objects and 216 relationships.
  • Developed a local GraphRAG demo with Neo4j, Qdrant, BAAI/bge-m3, BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3, and Flask.
  • Validated an end-to-end pipeline spanning semantic retrieval, vector recall, reranking, graph-context expansion, and evidence-chain display.

Novel Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Team Member · Provincial College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program

Apr. 2025 - Apr. 2026

Xiamen, China

  • Investigated numerical solutions of the Poisson equation on sector domains, focusing on corner singularities and nonsmooth structures.
  • Helped design a Müntz-type basis method adapted to corner singularities and compared it with algebraic-power bases and a neural-network-assisted baseline.
  • Conducted one-dimensional approximation, single- and double-mode Poisson benchmark, and singular-exponent ablation experiments.

Honors & Awards

  • 2023 “FLTRP ETIC Cup” Understanding Contemporary China National Foreign Language Contest, Provincial Second Prize
  • 2023 Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Provincial Third Prize
  • AiXIA Innovation: Xiamen Hackathon, AI for Science / Agent Track, Third Prize

Skills & Interests

Programming & Tools

Python, C/C++, MATLAB, CUDA, Git, VS Code, Codex, WorkBuddy, Trae, Alibaba Cloud

Languages

Chinese, native, English, proficient, IELTS 7.0

Research Interests

Applied Mathematics, Machine Learning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Operations Research, Graph Algorithms, AI for Science, Agent Development

Personal Interests

Tea culture, coffee, badminton, long-distance running

Resume | Zitao Xing