A BRIEF HISTORY OF ME

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My name is pronounced like “She-Kai”. I was born in China and came to the U.S for college. I identify myself as a global citizen, and I love to think on a global level.

I started my entrepreneurial career as a 11 year old, when I sold roses on Valentine’s Day. In 2014, my junior year of college, I co-founded a company called CampusZebra.com, a freelance website that is intended to connect Virginia Tech talents with the real-world needs throughout the local community. I was fully involved in market research, web development, capital raising, marketing, leadership and product development?. Starting this business is one the most challenging thing I have done and it truly makes me proud.

In 2015, at my first job after graduation, I discovered machine learning, and fell in love with it. It allowed me to see the world through different eyes. Since then, I have been learning and working on different data science projects including sentiment analysis on movie reviews and building a personal content recommendation engine. Particularly, I love natural language processing since I am eager to understand the world differently through numerous amounts of text data. Specifically, I desire to drive meaningful insights by analyzing social media data.

Outside of the professional life, I love camping and learning different cultures. I feel most comfortable in environments that are completely foreign to me, where I can be like a 3 year old again and be fascinated by the world surround me.

If you like my story, and want to say hi, please email me at xikai.vt@gmail.com