About Me

I am Junkai (Jackie) Lin, currently an undergraduate student in Data Science at
Beijing Normal – Hong Kong Baptist University (The Campus of Hong Kong Baptist University at Zhuhai China, 北師香港浸會大學).
My research interests lie in Machine Learning, Optimization, Multimodal & Large Language Models, Medical Imaging, Geo-Informatics, and Scientific Machine Learning. I was a research intern at HKUST (Guangzhou), supervised by Dr. Qiaojin Lin.

I work in both English and Chinese, with native proficiency in Mandarin and Teochew (A branch of Hokkien / Taiwanese), high proficiency in Cantonese, and advanced English ability suitable for academic writing, presentations, and research collaboration.

Education

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (香港中文大學)

Aug. 2026 – Sept. 2027 (Expected)

M.Sc. in Mathematics（數學・理學硕士）

Hong Kong Baptist University (香港浸會大學)

Sept. 2022 – Jun. 2026 (Expected)

B.Sc. (Hons) in Data Science（數據科學理學士・榮譽）

Graduation Thesis (Advisor: Dr. A. M. Elsawah):
From Distance to Gravitation: A New Perspective for Improving Classification, Clustering, and Sampling

Professional Internships

 Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.

 Summer Intern · Shatin, Hong Kong SAR

 June 2025 – August 2025

 Worked on enhancing diffusion-based HI-Diff for microscopy deblurring; resulting work is a part of the paper accepted to ICVRV 2025.

Honors & Awards

xCurrency Curiosity Scholarship, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
🥈 Second Prize (Team) · 2025

Kaggle – NeurIPS Open Polymer Prediction (Hosted by Uni. Notre Dame)
🥉 Bronze Medal 🌏(International) · Top 5.2% · 2025

Kaggle – Locating Bacterial Flagellar Motors (Hosted by BYU)
🥉 Bronze Medal 🌏(International) · Top 8% · 2025

Yuanguang Cup – GBA Computer Design Competition of China
🥉 Provincial 3rd Prize · 2025

Kaggle – Game-Playing Strength of MCTS Variants (Hosted by Uni. Maastricht)
🥉 Bronze Medal 🌏(International) · Top 10% · 2024

CUMCM (China UG Mathematical Contest in Modeling)
🥉 Provincial 3rd Prize · 2023

International UG Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Macao)
🥇 Finalist Prize (Regional) · 2023

💻 Selected Project

• 📘 “U-Dream” — Study Abroad & Overseas University Information Exchange Platform Selected for BNBU(UIC) CS–DS Poster Conference 2024

• Course Project for COMP3013: Database Management Systems, BNBU
• Core contributor responsible for multi-source data crawling and cleaning using Python
• Developed a Django-based backend supporting multi-dimensional queries (e.g., QS rankings, regions)
• Implemented data visualization modules and personalized university/program recommendation features
• Assisted in MySQL database schema design, including ER modeling and normalization for complex entities (students, universities, offers)
• Designed database triggers to enforce data integrity for key attributes such as GPA and language scores
• Addressed information asymmetry in study-abroad services; recognized as an exemplary project in the CS department poster exhibition