Hi, I'm Le Xiao!

Master of Business Administration, Professionals & Managers (Part-Time)

2019 - 2022

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Master of Science, Computer Science

2015 - 2017

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Technology

2011 - 2015

Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin, Jilin, China

Associate Software Engineer

2019 - Present

USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute, 9860 Mesa Rim Road, San Diego, CA

• Led and developed the clinical data cohort to synchronize and automate data sharing, resulting in a year-over-year savings of $10 Million.
• Developed and managed end-to-end clinical data processing tool kits involving stakeholders in medical safety and biostatistics departments to increase efficiency and accuracy in data validation.
• Executed on the development of reusable RESTful APIs enabling public data access to multi-functional web applications of 20 partners, including Mayo Clinic, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, and IQVIA.
• Created cutting-edge SaaS solutions to speed up large file transfer by 20 times and simplify the file management leading to a decline in an annual cost of $10K.

Programmer Analyst II

2017 - 2019

USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute, 9860 Mesa Rim Road, San Diego, CA

• Designed and developed key features of the Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system to support data collection of 18 clinical trials over the world.
• Designed an agile behavior-driven development framework that helps boost the productivity of the informatics team by 25%, reduces testing cycles by 10% and leads to an 80% improvement in the readability of test results.
• Collaborated with different business and technical teams to synchronize and automate data sharing which results in year on year savings of $50,000.
• Refined validation process to build an adapter that automates report generation and regulation compliance check resulting in 40% acceleration in feature releases

Cyber Security Research - Life Experience Password Study Research Analyst

2016 - 2017

USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, Los Angeles, CA

• Designed and developed a survey portal embedded with Amazon MTurk Service which results in a 40% increase in participants recruiting.
• Utilized NLP technology to automatically generate related questions and analyze the answers leading to 50% faster data processing.
• Designed and developed a data visualization tool used by 20 staff of the department to summarize the outcome of the study and help decision making.

Image Data Pipeline of Clinical Trials

2019 - Present

USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute, 9860 Mesa Rim Road, San Diego, CA

• Python

• AWS

• PostgreSQL

• Utilized AWS Cloudformation to automate the data pipeline construction and enhanced flexbility.
• Implemented AWS Step Function to scale up the image process and set up the rules for validation.
• Led the development on Smart Email Campaign that can send emails based on the user profile and data status once the job in pipeline is completed.
• Engaged with stakeholders to automate FDA clinical casebook generation process.

Electronic Data Capture System of Clinical Trials

2017 - Present

USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute, 9860 Mesa Rim Road, San Diego, CA

• Python

• Django

• NodeJS

• AngularJS

• React

• PostgreSQL

• GraphQL

• Implemented smart QA tool to allow data managers to customize digital form submission rules across the digital form, participant attributes, and audit trail so that the working load of them has been reduced by 20%.
• Implemented configuration tools to allow data managers to automate corresponding actions after digital form submission instead of doing them manually for more than 2000 participants.
• Implemented large file preview for a digital form to allow monitors to double-check attachments before submission so that the accuracy of data collection is increased by 30%.
• Engaged with the IT team to Set up the SAML SSO authentication mechanism by integrating Google G Suite with EDC and received 100% satisfaction feedback from authorized users.

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Framework

2017 - Present

USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute, 9860 Mesa Rim Road, San Diego, CA

• Python

• Selenium

• Behave

• Gherkin

• Implemented test scenario design model with Gherkin language to accelerate test requirements translation and enhance agile product quality so that the test coverage is increased by 20%.
• Provided functionalities from testing integrity and user interaction to efficient test results communication, analytics.
• Implemented scalable infrastructure to accelerate development and speed up the execution of cross-platform testing so that the reusability of the codebase is increased by 30%.
• Standardized validation, facilitated the redesign of existing UIs and enhanced the readability of test documentation so that the efficiency of development is increased by 30%

Project Management Certificate

San Diego Continuing Education, Miramar College, San Diego, CA

Using Episodic Memory for User Authentication

SS Woo, R Artstein, E Kaiser, X Le, J Mirkovic - ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2019