Hongjun Wu

Xuanyu Fang, Yunzhu Pan, Hongjun Wu

The technological advancement in data analysis and sensor technology has contributed to a growth in knowledge of the surrounding environments. Feng Shui, the Chinese philosophy of evaluating a certain environment and how it influences human well-being, can only be determined by self-claimed specialists for the past thousands of years. We developed a device as well as a procedure to evaluate the ambient environment of a room to perform a study that attempts to use sensor data to predict the well-being score of a person in that environment, therefore evaluating the primary aspect of Feng Shui. Our study revealed preliminary results showing great potential for further research with larger experiments.

Kehan Wang, Jiaxi Yang, Hongjun Wu

While in real life everyone behaves themselves at least to some extent, it is much more difficult to expect people to behave themselves on the internet, because there are few checks or consequences for posting something toxic to others. Yet, for people on the other side, toxic texts often lead to serious psychological consequences. Detecting such toxic texts is challenging. In this paper, we attempt to build a toxicity detector using machine learning methods including CNN, Naive Bayes model, as well as LSTM. While there has been numerous groundwork laid by others, we aim to build models that provide higher accuracy than the predecessors. We produced very high accuracy models using LSTM and CNN, and compared them to the go-to solutions in language processing, the Naive Bayes model. A word embedding approach is also applied to empower the accuracy of our models.