Education
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 2021 – 2025 (Expected)
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science; second major in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology
• GPA: 4.0 / 4.0
• Relevant courses: CSE247 Data Structures and Algorithms (Java), CSE330 Rapid Prototype Development and Creative Programming (JavaScript, PHP), CSE217 Intro to Data Science (Python), CSE332 Object-Oriented Programming (C++)
• Relevant activities: Participant in the Association for Computing Machinery, ICPC practice sessions, and Hack Washu 2022
Kincoppal - Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart (KRB), Sydney, Australia 2017 – 2020
• Test scores: SAT 1560; Relevant activities: Founder and President of the Programming Club
SKILLS
• Programming Language: Java, Python, PHP, C++, C, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Tech Stack: React.js, MongoDB, Django, RESTful API, Socket.IO, MySQL, AWS EC2; Bootstrap, Chakra UI, Material UI, Arduino
• Tool: Git, Latex, JASP, LabelImg, Vim, Visual Studio Code, Xcode, Avidemux, Gimp, Eclipse, Boris
EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate research assistant at the Hengen Lab, St. Louis, Missouri Sep 2022 – Present
A system neuroscience lab interested in using machine learning models to understand how neural activities generate robust cognition
• Writing Python scripts with OpenCV algorithms to perform optical flow analysis of animals to generate behavior predictions
• Trained deep neural network from the Python package DeepLabCut in the Docker environment for animal pose estimation
Software development engineer for web project “Tie-Tie”, remote Summer 2022 – Dec 2022
A team of 16 engineers creating a forum website that handles discussions on university life including courses, jobs, and subleases
• Currently the top code contributor; designed and built the majority of the website’s functionalities including authentication, post filtering, the user dashboard, post saving, and the avatar upload page with React, MongoDB and Node.js; wrote RESTful APIs to handle HTTP requests; leveraged CSS mobile-responsive styling techniques; used Git efficiently
• Utilized React data-fetching strategies specifically Static-site generation and dynamic routing to greatly reduce load time
• Managed the UI team of four engineers; duties include hosting daily standup meetings, interviewing candidates, conducting code review, and mentoring new hires; facilitated cross-team collaboration with backend and mobile app teams
Intern at HongPu Optoelectronics Technology CO., LTD., Shanghai, China Summer 2021
A company expertized in LED test instruments, incorporating machine learning to detect solar panel defects during manufacturing
• Wrote Python scripts and leveraged tool LabelImg to preprocess images for image tagging of solar panel defects; conducted thorough research on the working principle of fast R-CNN, image tagging workflow, and solar panel manufacturing process to write the employee training manual and deliver a presentation by the end of internship
• Shadowed managers in meeting with clients, conducting internal training and hosting partnership programs with universities
Invited participant in Australian Informatics Olympiad Program School of Excellence (2 weeks), Canberra, Australia 2018
The annual national informatics camp that invites the top 25 high-achievers in the same year’s AIO to study advanced algorithms
• Underwent intense training in competitive programming; solved challenging problems, some from international informatics events, using C++
PROJECT
MediaTOR, website for tracking, discovering and sharing media
• Developed the media database website allowing users to search and track the movies, shows, and animes they’ve watched and post blogs about them, including a webstore to purchase merch, with React frontend, Django backend and SQLite database
• Used react-router for creating single-page apps; used throttling requests at frontend for more efficient API calls
E-commerce store automation tasks
• Leveraging the puppeteer framework to extract popular searches, and automate posting promotional content on social media
• Using OpenCV-python to perform image manipulations, and Midjourney to generate product images
• Developed Blender scripts with Python to automate image rendering of the same model with different orientations
AWARD
2018 Gold Medalist and Perfect Score, Australian Informatics Olympiad (AIO)
2017 High Distinction (Top 5% among selected participants), Australian Intermediate Mathematics Olympiad (AIMO)
2017, 2018 High Distinction (Top 2%), Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC)