Jack Zhou Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Engineer in the Platform area providing support to cutting edge network switches

Involved with mentoring countless students and peers, either for directions in academia or looking to break into the tech industry.Have exercised mentorship either in private or through official channels such as the SFU Computing Science Student Society, and SFU Faculty of Applied Sciences

Highly experienced private tutor with demonstrated experience teaching and coaching in the following areas:- High School Precalculus- Programming (Python/C/C++)- Single Variable Calculus (MATH 150/151/152)- Discrete Mathematics (MACM 101/201)- Undergraduate-level Computer Science subjectsIn addition to tutoring students to help them with understanding a topic, I also exercise direction to help students enrich their understanding to go above and… Show more Highly experienced private tutor with demonstrated experience teaching and coaching in the following areas:- High School Precalculus- Programming (Python/C/C++)- Single Variable Calculus (MATH 150/151/152)- Discrete Mathematics (MACM 101/201)- Undergraduate-level Computer Science subjectsIn addition to tutoring students to help them with understanding a topic, I also exercise direction to help students enrich their understanding to go above and beyondTutoring contact: jryzkns+tutoring at gmail.com Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Research Assistant specializing in technical guidance and operations in the Spalek LAMP lab, in particular the Driving Simulation Lab.http://www.sfu.ca/psychology/research/lamp.htmlPreviously Involved in research projects that are independent of lab affiliations.Enabled remote delivery of psychology experiments in the midst of a global pandemic, allowing research to continue while everyone is at home, and letting researchers move forward with their… Show more Research Assistant specializing in technical guidance and operations in the Spalek LAMP lab, in particular the Driving Simulation Lab.http://www.sfu.ca/psychology/research/lamp.htmlPreviously Involved in research projects that are independent of lab affiliations.Enabled remote delivery of psychology experiments in the midst of a global pandemic, allowing research to continue while everyone is at home, and letting researchers move forward with their degree/projects.Evangelized best practices for writing psychology experiments to facilitate researcher autonomy. Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Engineer in the Platform area providing support to cutting edge network switches

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Devoops Intern developing pipelines and automation workflowsUsed domain knowledge to debug automation workflows, ensuring a stable productization of the Ansys EM software suite.Developed pipelines to automate the deployment and publishing of the Ansys EM software suite, entirely factoring out developer time by setting a few values and with the press of a button.Developed assistance software to facilitate and aid the migration of legacy build toolchains to more modern ones

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Client-side C++ Development using Qt/GLFW and other technologies.Contributed to the development of the Teradici WVD client https://connect.teradici.com/blog/using-cloud-access-software-with-windows-virtual-desktop

Vancouver, Canada Area

Teacher at Robokids Burnaby and West Vancouver. Highly experienced with teaching students in person and remotely. I taught primarily programming, mathematics, and elementary robotic design. I have also spearheaded curriculum reforms which is now widely adopted after my departure.Instruction platforms include Python, Java, Scratch, Lego Mindstorms EV3, and Lego Education WEDO

Vancouver, Canada Area

SW Video Compression Co-op working with a team developing cutting edge video transcoding technology as part of the Open Visual Cloud.Automated testing workflows to not just speed up when results are ready, but also gives the engineer their attention and time back to work on more important things.Implemented and tested various optimizations in terms of vectorization or search optimization. Was the lead contributor to the integration of a machine learning algorithm within the… Show more SW Video Compression Co-op working with a team developing cutting edge video transcoding technology as part of the Open Visual Cloud.Automated testing workflows to not just speed up when results are ready, but also gives the engineer their attention and time back to work on more important things.Implemented and tested various optimizations in terms of vectorization or search optimization. Was the lead contributor to the integration of a machine learning algorithm within the product.Refactored and prepared the product for maintainability as well as keeping it in a good shape, leading it to eventually be adopted as the reference implementation for the video standard in question (AV1) Show less

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science And Psychology, With Distinction

I study computer science to solve problems around us, and psychology to solve problems within us. If I were to give my degree a better.

Mathematics

Actively learning mathematics and seeking the deep motivations and mechanisms that make the mathematical machinery run. Academically.

Secondary School, Dogwood Diploma

Awarded the Gold Cord for consistent outstanding academic performance