Lauren Le Peng

Applied AI · Software Engineering · Hong Kong

Experience

Rapport AI Medical · Hong Kong

Feb 2026 – Present

AI Engineer Intern

  • Owned an LLM-powered radiology documentation system from prototype to production, converting Cantonese-English dictation into structured reports.
  • Built model-evaluation workflows using LLM-as-judge scoring and ablation studies to guide model selection.
  • Implemented bounded parallel processing for an audio-documentation workflow.
  • Built release checks and versioned run logs to trace outputs to model and prompt versions.

Centre for Language Education, HKUST · Hong Kong

Feb – Aug 2026

Student Helper

  • Main developer of Utter, an AI speaking-practice app and instructor portal using Flutter, Next.js and Supabase. Prepared an iOS release candidate with authenticated provider APIs, Apple sign-in and account deletion.
  • Built speaking-feedback evaluation workflows and refined feedback prompts.
  • Contributed structured QA and launch coordination across teaching staff and IT security; release and integration work continued into September.

Cellgene Biotechnology · Guangzhou

Jan – Jul 2025

AI Algorithm Intern

  • Built a Neo4j knowledge graph and LLM retrieval layer grounding answers in structured facts; adopted by the research team.
  • Developed BERT entity extraction and standardized data preparation.
  • Worked on few-shot exemplar selection and prompt design for classification.

Taiping Assets Investment Management · Shenzhen

Oct – Dec 2024

AI Engineer Intern

  • Built enterprise retrieval-augmented generation over financial reports.
  • Created Python, Pandas and Camelot pipelines to extract complex PDF tables into structured datasets.
  • Translated investment-team requirements into specifications and contributed to on-premise deployment.

Education

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Sep 2025 – Oct 2026

MSc in Artificial Intelligence

Requirements completed; formal degree conferral scheduled for 15 October 2026.

Sun Yat-sen University

Sep 2021 – Jun 2025

BEng in Intelligence Science and Technology

Skills

Engineering: Python, JavaScript, React, Node.js, SQL, FastAPI, Django REST, Flutter

AI & data: RAG, knowledge graphs, model evaluation, prompt engineering, PyTorch, Neo4j, Pandas

Delivery: AWS, Google Cloud / Vertex AI, Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, pytest, Playwright

Languages: Mandarin (native), English (fluent), Cantonese (intermediate)