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Education
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Additional Major in Human-Computer Interaction
GPA: 3.77 (Dean's List)
Relevant Coursework:
— Interaction Design for HCI
— Designing Human-Centered Software
— Product Design Fundamentals
— Computer Graphics
— Computer Systems
— AI Representation and Problem Solving
— Principles of Imperative Computation [DSA]
— Fundamentals of Programming
— Social Psychology
Work Experience
- Published weekly UX articles and interviews delving into topics such as digital accessibility and AI for UXA s Interaction Nerds newsletter, reaching an audience of 400 subscribers.
- Sustained aKDPhi’s core values and mission by elevating + updating CMU aKDPhi’s official website and designing digital flyers for CMU aKDPhi’s social media.
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Partnered with Prof. Patrick Carrington and PhD Franklin Li to create OSCAR: a system that allows visually-impaired people to effortlessly navigate recipes by tracking cooking object statuses.
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Conducted large-scale object status feasibility testing by processing 170+ recipes/1,350+ recipe cooking images using CLIP, sigLIP, and GPT-4 vision models in Python.
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Developed frontend and backend for OSCAR web application using React and Python Flask featuring responsive time cursor providing context for all recipe frames, and GPT-4 chat-box allowing users to ask recipe-based questions.
18-213: Computer Systems (Summer 24, Fall 24)
18-100: Introduction to ECE (Spring 24)
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Led and organized two 5-student weekly small groups honing in course concepts, clarifying misconceptions, and handling logistical issues such as technical bugs and lab extensions.
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Facilitated 2-5 hours of weekly office hours helping students debug circuit, signal, hardware, and software-based labs.
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Transitioned external tutor scheduling Google spreadsheet to native app scheduling table: optimizing tutor, lead tutor, and admin workflows with personalized schedule displays, button hyperlinks, alert notifications, and redundant column removal.
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Determined users’ needs and JTBDs through self-created and conducted user studies involving directed storytelling and interactive modeling.
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Spearheaded UI Facelift utilizing the GitHub Primer design system for CMU LearnLab’s DataShop@CMU: an online learning science dataset resource.
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Collaborated with Dr. David Lindlbauer on MineXR: a Meta-funded research project on how people integrate and orient personalized apps (widgets) in extended reality (XR) within everyday spaces.
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Conducted and designed 20+ two-hour user studies developing MineXR’s overall database ie. widget placement and placement reasoning.
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Annotated 70+ widgets within database describing their UI components to model the XR space in Unity, determining and categorizing commonly-grouped widgets.
Projects
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Utilized Node.js, React.js, Tailwind.css, and Javascript to develop browser-based webapp that provides film recommendations by historically underrepresented directors based on users' film preferences.
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Extracted users' film preferences using Letterboxd API.
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Utilized OpenAI API embeddings to search historically underrepresented director film dataset to provide recommendations.
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Implemented Python program "Zhuan" designed to take a Spotify user's data and output the user's Chinese Zodiac animal and a graphical/visual representation of their recent listening activity.
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Utilized Spotify Web API Python library “Spotipy” for musical data importation, visualization, and manipulation.
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Utilized Object Oriented Programming (OOP) for program graphics and UI.
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Designed modeling program to render 2D VTI medical files in 3D space.
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Prototyped webapp in Figma then developed React.js webapp to present project philosophy, general project info, and program itself.
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Prototyped "Archive": a mobile app where users can take photos of street art, and be provided with information about the art such as artist, location, and backstory.
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Developed UI in Figma including multiple screens, clickable buttons, and vertical/horizontal scrolling.
Awards
- First place out of 350 hackers and 60 projects for "most significant technological innovation that disrupts the status quo”.