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Newton, MA, US

Lexington, Massachusetts, United States

• Taught 10+ different levels of courses including JavaBlocks, Processing, Java, etc.
• Assist students in debugging project code, offering explanations on topics including AP Computer Science A, USA Computing Olympiad Bronze, Silver, and Gold Division problems
• Develop & review lesson materials for new courses with colleagues

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Developed a user-friendly, responsive, cross-platform desktop network administrator UI for managing large groups of users, featuring adding, removing current users and approving, denying incoming connections
• Designed a flexible, click-minimizing network configuration interface supporting both user-specific and group-specific operations
• Integrated user login features and Public Key authentication for incoming connections
• Drafted & implemented both client-side and server-side API protocols using OpenAPI Specifications. Tested through writing a Python mock server using Flask
• Spearheaded design proposals, discussions, and iterations

Newton, Massachusetts, United States

• Architected, programmed, and tested the team’s competition robot from scratch within 6 weeksevery year for 4 years
• Led a team of ~20 members through mentoring, distributing tasks, tracking project timeline, reviewing Pull Requests, coordinating with other sub-teams
• Spearheaded research software implementation for the Swerve robot drive system, implementedpath simulations, trajectory planning, autonomous path-following, etc. Integrated DataLoggingutility for electrical debugging.
• Developed computer vision algorithms using OpenCV to detect game pieces, and assist robot aligning & scoring without manual input. Used PhotonLib to process AprilTags for real-timerobot position updates
• Created a series of interactive training curricula for new members on topics including Git/Github,Java/WPILib, Python, OpenCV, PhotonLib
• Orchestrated two-month-long annual training sessions before competition season

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Unmanned Aerial System Synthetic Aperture Radar (UASSAR)
• Programmed and optimized backprojection algorithm on radar to generate 2D map detecting objects on the ground
• Leveraged signal processing & noise reduction techniques including Gaussian Filters, Median Filters to produce clear radar images, and CFAR Filtering to lower the false alarm rate. Stood out as 1st team to filter out 5.
• Coded radar signal collections and receiving in UDP protocols. Created data analysis scripts andvisualizations including 3D animation of the drone’s flight trajectories under Motion Capture system, Range-Time Plot.
• Designed a GUI using wxPython for performing operations during drone flights and live display ofreal-time data

Newton, Massachusetts, United States

• Initiated the contest organization and recruited members to introduce theoretical CS knowledge and problem-solving skills in middle schools and high schools in Newton
• Created & maintained the contest website, designed logos & posters for advertising. Increased the number of participants threefold
• Secured a total worth of ~$4000 sponsorships from KTByte Online Academy. Invited both KTByte’s founder and the IOI USA national team coach as event guest speakers
• Wrote and tested contest problems by designing customized test cases

Engineering And Computer Science

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