Zhewen Shen

Summary

Computer Science student specializing in Operating Systems and system-level software development. Pursuing a Bachelor of Advanced Computer Science (Honours) at UNSW. Passionate about low-level programming, system architecture, and optimizing software performance. Experienced in developing efficient and robust system software solutions.

Education

Bachelor of Advanced Computer Science (Honours)

University of New South Wales (UNSW), Expected: Dec. 2025

• Extended Operating Systems
• Advanced Operating Systems
• Extended Algorithms Design and Analysis
• Advanced Algorithms
• Advanced C++ Programming
• Applied Cryptography

Experience

Research Intern - School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW

Jan. 2024 - Jun. 2024

• Developed BAMBINO-LM, a novel continual pre-training strategy for bilingual language models.
• Implemented techniques inspired by bilingual child language acquisition, improving Italian language capability in zero-shot classification tasks.
• Conducted comprehensive ablation studies to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
• Co-authored "BAMBINO-LM: (Bilingual-)Human-Inspired Continual Pre-training of BabyLM" - presented at the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) at ACL 2024.

Skills