Hang Yu MSCS @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Email: hangy6 [at] illinois [dot] edu

Education

Working Experience

Research Experience

Skills

Course Work

Awards

• Outstanding Graduates of Zhejiang University Awarded on Undergraduate Period, Zhejiang University
• Certificate of Excellent Engineering Training Program, Zhejiang University
• Scholarship for Excellence in Research and Innovation Awarded on 2018-2019
• ASCE MidPac Regional Geowall Competition Championship
• Outstanding Student Leader Awards Awarded on 2017-2018, Zhejiang University
• Outstanding Student Awarded on 2017-2018, Zhejiang University
• Third-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Merits Awarded on 2017-2018, Zhejiang University
• Third-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Students Awarded on 2017-2018, Zhejiang University
• Third-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Merits Awarded on 2016-2017, Zhejiang University
• Excellent Social Practice Scholarship Awarded on 2016-2017

Hobbies and Interests

One of my favorite things is to resolve the Rubik's cube which helps to train both my reaction speed and my finger deftness. Apart from standard 3 by 3 by 3 Rubik's cube, I play various kinds of cubes and participated in WCA (World Cube Association) competitions. The most exciting thing about this is that I can both improve my skills and more importantly make new friends in this process. My WCA homepage can be viewed here. My another hobby is to play table tennis, which is my favorite sport ever since I was in middle school, and I made it to represent my middle school to participate in the regional competition in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China. Also, I won many awards due to this hobby during my undergraduate period which is too many that I want to list them all. Other hobbies are but not limited to playing basketball, swimming, ice skating, singing, cooking, etc.

Social Experiences

During my undergraduate period, I was not only devoted to my course work, but also participated in many volunteer activities to devote my time to help others in need. Among those volunteer activities, my favorite one was to voluntarily teach how to resolve Rubik's cube every Friday afternoon in an elementary school to enrich those students' after class activities and skills. Despite I was the teacher, I actually also learned things such as how to organize students and how to vary my teaching strategy from students to students. One more thing is that I am sharing what I like to them and the Rubik's cube community might be promoted for this small thing.

Other than volunteer experience, I also worked actively as the leader of the Magic Show and Magic Cube Club at Zhejiang University and that was where the Outstanding Student Leaders Awards came. I hosted FMC Asia 2017 Hangzhou regional sub-court which is a competition that requires to use the fewest move solution to resolve a Rubik's cube in one hour for each scramble. And I also hosted WCA Hangzhou Spring 2018 Open which had many different games and invited competitors from all over the world. I worked so actly in hosting these competitions because I love this hobby and hope to contribute my own effort to make a stronger community. The last experience is about table tennis. I also worked as a member in Table Tennis Club at Zhengjiang University and we also contribute our time to train students who registered table tennis class but had little experience in playing this sport. This program aims to help them pass the final exams of the table tennis class.