Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science
Minor, Sociology and Economics

Honors: Matilda White Riley Student Paper Award (2021), National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Fellowship recipient (2019)

Relevant coursework: Operating Systems, Computer Systems, Algorithms, Data Structures, Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation, Human-Computer Interaction, Optimization and Uncertainty, Economic Statistics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Economics of the Public Sector, Sociology of Education, Linear Algebra

Abroad

Relevant coursework: Applied Cryptography, Mobile Software Development, Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks, User Experience Design, Full Stack Software Development Crash Course

Programming/web languages

Python, Java, C++, Kotlin, HTML5, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript (basic)

Software Proficiencies & Tools

Spring Boot framework, Model-View-Controller (MVC) application structure, Android Studios, PyCharm, Eclipse, Cytoscape, Jekyll (this website!), Github, LaTeX, Stata, PhotoShop, LightRoom

Languages

English, Mandarin

Quartz Core Software Engineer

• Implemented multiple Python scripts to monitor the status of ephemeral databases which are critical to the Bank's daily operations.

Summer Global Technology Analyst

• Achieved a 5.45% mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) on time series prediction model for daily ATM total cash volume estimations, beating the former benchmark by 42%, and delivered the top three performing models out of all intern groups.
• Collaborated with eight other interns through daily team meetings.
• Researched and implemented Random Forest Regressor and Voting Regressor to achieve 8% and 6.8% MAPE, respectively.
• Evaluated findings and presented novel, evidence-based hypotheses to senior leadership about ways to further improve models.

NSF REU Software Engineer Research Fellow

• Created a web application tool to detect objects in images using OpenCV library. This tool will be embedded into a system that will recommend whether an individual should share a group photo based on each individual’s preferences.
• Implemented the web application using MVC application structure with the Spring Boot Maven framework on Eclipse.
• Researched different object detection techniques and incorporated YOLOv3 using the COCO dataset into the web application.
• Developed an understanding of software engineering research related to multi-user privacy, machine learning, recommender systems, and command line among various other applications.
• Managed project via weekly progress updates articulating achievements, challenges faced, and upcoming week’s goals to mentors.

Teaching Assistant for the CS department

• Elaborated on CSCI2101 (Data Structures) concepts during the pandemic when lectures were held on Zoom.
• Held weekly offices hours on Zoom to help guide students toward completing their coding assignments.
• Graded CSCI2200 (Algorithms) problem sets in a timely manner.
• Provided detailed feedback to questions on problem sets where necessary.

Alumni Fund Ambassador

• Contact Bowdoin alumni to thank donors, engage in conversations, and solicit donations in support of the College’s annual operations.
• Refine professional interpersonal skills, philanthropic development and fundraising skills.
• Build rapport with alumni while maintaining a level of strict confidentiality.

Creator & Designer

I created this website for myself to showcase my experience, personal interests, and just for fun! I created and designed this website but I obtained inspiration from Steve Smith for the layout; Christian Ezeani for the sidebar; and Joel Glovier for the resume design. This would not be possible without their open source work. This is created on Jekyll and hosted on Github pages.

Team lead

As our needfinding project for Human-Computer Interaction course, our team redesigned the front-end design of Bowdoin RideShare as the current Bowdoin Rideshare needed updating. We hoped this would reinvigorate interest for Bowdoin students to use RideShare again. We went through all the steps that a typical UX designer would follow:found a need; created a wireframe; implemented our design; and conducted user studies.

Member

As our final project in Applied Cryptography, we created a local, secure file transfer protocol which used modern day cryptography principles. We used a combination of timestamps, nonces, symmetric key algorithms (AES-GCM mode), and asymmetric key algorithms (RSA) to implement the server machine. We were able to encrypt and upload a photo/file and download the decrypted file only if the user was the owner.

Member

This was my first hackathon experience at Wellelsey College. My team won 'Best use of OneDB' category challenge. I created a working concept of a website designed to help at-risk/homeless people in the Boston area find shelters and organizations that can provide help. I designed the wireframe and researched for sources with contact information and locations of reputable organizations and shelters.

Associate Editor, former Copy Editor

• Edited, proofread, and fact-checked articles to ensure proper journalism etiquette and Orient style is met before weekly publication.
• Collaborated with the Orient staff editors to write articles ranging in categories from news to features to opinions.
• Mentored new writers in ways to improve writing by offering tips on grammar and word choice and advice on sentence structure.

Member

• Photography (Nikon D3500 --> D750 now :D)
• Indoor bouldering
• Running and lifting
• Poker, Chess, and other board games