Hongyao Shao
Data Science & Business student at Boston University. I work at the intersection of data, technology, and business.
About
I'm a third-year student at Boston University pursuing a B.S. in Data Science and a B.S.B.A. in Business Administration & Management with a Finance concentration. I'm passionate about turning data into insights and decisions, whether that's building ML pipelines, analyzing financial markets, or visualizing complex datasets.
Technical Project Manager at BU Spark!, and previously an analyst in investment and Web3 contexts. I enjoy building side projects that sit at the edge of what I know.
Education
Boston University
B.S. Data Science
B.S.B.A. Business Administration & Management Finance Concentration
Expected May 2027
Skills
Projects
Progressive Mass: Home Rule Petition →
End-to-end data pipeline using the MA Legislature Public API to collect and structure 10 years of petition data. Built a refiling fatigue analysis dashboard to quantify repeated filings and their impact on success rates.
Emotion Recognition from Audio →
Python/TensorFlow pipeline that transforms raw audio into mel-spectrograms for CNN-based emotion classification. Improved F1 score by 50% over baseline through structured hyperparameter sweeps on speech and song models.
LLM Article Summarizer →
LLM-powered article analyzer exploring how prompt design influences model outputs. Demonstrates the impact of prompt engineering on summarization quality and response variability.
Contact
- GitHubgithub.com/SHyalan12
- LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/hongyaoshao
- Emailhongyaoshao@gmail.com