Professor Thomas Yeh and Professor Alex Ihler:

• Researching ML Acceleration algorithms and exploring combining AFP, a novel floating point quantization, Lottery Ticket Hypothesis Iterative Pruning, and ZFP compression for efficient matrix computations.

• Web Lead: developing a ChatGPT-like web app used in our experiments with ICS 31-32 (Intro to Programming in Python) students to study the impacts of LLMs on CS education

• Github 🔗

Professor Sandi Irani and Shion Fukuzawa:

• Web Lead working with a team of 6 creating a web-based simulation of the CHSH Game as an educational tool to teach Quantum Computing

Collaborative of over 70 student developers creating several open-source apps to enhance the lives of UCI students--with projects ranging from course schedule planning, historical grade distribution tools, and dining hall menu trackers.

Across all apps, supporting up to 20K+ total users, with 5K to 15K+ active users per week.

(Github 🔗)

Lead for the ZotnFound Team 🔗: An interactive lost-and-found social network app designed exclusively for UCI students and faculty on campus, with over 200 active users
using React Native, Expo, AWS, and SST/Ion CI/CD

Responsible for planning and running the 3 largest hackathons in Orange County with over 500+ attendees.

• Tech: Led a team of 8 building our club's home page and custom-themed sites for our 3 quarterly hackathons and application tracking platform using NextJS, Shadcn, AWS, SanityCMS, and FastAPI

• Marketing: promoting and advertising our hackathons and club events through social media and newsletter with over 1500+ followers

• Misc: helped run weekly workshops and events with 30+ attendees

Raspberry Pi, Arduino, React Native/Expo, Supabase, Ngrok

An autonomous rover replacement of human "pacers" during marathons and long distance competitions

The Pacer Buddy app tracks/graphs the runner's pace in real time, records their runs' geolocation data on Google Maps, and allows a user to capture and upload photos of their runs

Demo Vid 🔗

Repos: Server 🔗 and App 🔗

Next.js, FastAPI, Supabase Realtime/Storage, and Neo4j AuraDB

A social network platform for campus clubs/students to post/view events using real-time pins on an interactive map.

Demo Vid 🔗

Devpost 🔗

Keras, Google Colab, Plotly, Pandas

Compared the results of transfer learning on pre-trained models such as VGG-16/19, MobileNetV2, ViTb-16 Transformer, ResNet101 against classical CNNs on the COCO, CIFAR-10, and Kaggle datasets

Achieved a validation loss of 0.0058 and 82% validation accuracy on drone detection bounding boxes with ViT—a 40% improvement compared against other models

Presentation 🔗

Paper 🔗

PyTorch, Google Colab, Plotly, Pandas

Finetuned ViT and SWIN transformers ensemble for Chest X-ray (CXR) diagnosis with little to no radiologist intervention, achieving 87.2% validation accuracy on COVID dataset

Created Deep Convolutional GANs model to generate labeled CXR scans to feed into our transformers as training data

Presentation 🔗

Paper 🔗

Chakra UI, React Native, AWS, Firebase, Google Maps API / Leaflet, SST/Ion

An open source interactive lost-and-found network app designed exclusively for UCI students and faculty on campus, with over 200 active users

Check it out here! → Live Site 🔗

Next.js, FastAPI, Vercel Serverless Functions, Three.js/React Three Fiber, Shadcn, Radix UI, Sanity CMS, TailwindCSS

Landing page containing hackathon application portal, schedule, and resources for IrvineHacks 2023: the largest hackathon in Orange County with over 500 attendees annually

Check it out here! → Live Site 🔗

Next.js, SCSS, Framer Motion, Sanity CMS

Landing page for ZotHacks 2023: a beginner-oriented hackathon for incoming UCI students to gain project-building and hackathon experience

Check it out here! → Live Site 🔗

C++

Created a custom heuristic-based Minesweeper AI solver using a frontier-based breadth-first search with probability calculation and pattern checking, based on surrounding tiles, to determine which tile to uncover next

C (programming language)

Spawns child processes for each shell command. Supports all Linux commands, background jobs, pipe and redirection operators, and custom shell commands

C++

Created an Othello AI Bot using adversarial game trees and alpha-beta pruning for efficient state space searching to determine the next best move against an enemy player

• placed 3rd in a tournament against other Othello AIs with a 95.2% win rate out of 284 games
• record (win/loss/tie): 270-13-1

Python

Physics simulator of several types of "simultons" created using Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture

Juypter Notebook, Plotly, Pandas

Data exploration and analysis of the Montreal Crime Dataset from Kaggle. Presented data visualizations and findings to a panel of judges.

React, Firebase, Material UI, HTML, CSS, Javascript

Led a team of 4 to create MotivMates: a habit-building accountability app to motivate friends to work together to meet their goals.

React, PixiJS, Socket.io, ExpressJS

Worked in a team of 4 to create Rattle: a multiplayer web-based rhythm video game with custom animated sprites and UI. Winning 2nd place out of 15 teams.

Vercel OpenAI SDK, Next.js, Redis, ShadCN, NextAuth

• Ran a study evaluating the effects of interactive prompting between LLM chatbots and CS students for better debugging, edge case testing, and programming education

• Developed iGPT, our custom interactive chatbot, in-house used during study

• Realtime Redis Dashboard to monitor chats during the study

• Published "Bridging Novice Programmers and LLMs with Interactivity" paper with our experiment's results to ACM SIGCSE Research Conference

Demo Vid 🔗

Created and delivered the ZotnFound's team End-Of-Year presentation, outlining our team's accomplishments, progress, and new production features.

Presentation 🔗

Architecture Diagram 🔗

Demo Vid 🔗