Nick Jiang Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Probing into vision-language models.Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.02762

San Francisco, Ca, Us

VC firm focused on software; invested seed in +20 unicorns worth ~$100b | Pitch us bit.ly/pitchsoma or reach me directly nickj@berkeley.edu

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Cutting corporate emissions 🌎 on data ingestion

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Integrated Kubernetes & cloud support for Hydro (hydro.run), a Rust framework for rapidly developing distributed applications

Built core features of an AI copilot for teachers ~ scaled product to 100K users

San Mateo, California, Us

Data engineering

San Francisco, Us

Led project to build a dashboard that increases transparency in sentencing outcomes

New York, Us

Collaborated with VCs, founders, and NGOs in a fellowship equipping and inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs. Developed an SMS chatbot for MENA refugees to access programming resources in their native languages offline.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Built a research prototype using Apple's ARKit to automatically compose, size, and position 2D images of the physical environment into an interactive collage, inspired by art created by David Hockney (https://arc.net/l/quote/winivyna)

Groton, Connecticut (Ct), Us

Prototyped a dashboard for analysts to efficiently annotate and track endangered underwater species with machine learning. Led regular user interviews, architected Siamese network for species re-identification, and developed proof-of-concept for beta-testing.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Topic: Use Of Design Thinking By Product Managers And Their TeamsAdvised by Professor Sara BeckmanSummer 2022 (URAP Fellow) - Leveraged large language models like BERT to compare design thinking trends between two large Silicon Valley companies.Fall 2021/Spring 2022 - Analyzed dataset of 600+ survey responses with topic modeling to find themes in how high-performing product managers operate, experimenting with methods like LDA, GSDMM, TFIDF, Word2Vec, and Kmeans. Co-authored manuscript for publication in California Management Review.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Built insilicoSV, a library to generate synthetic genomes with complex structural variants (SVs), for use in ML models

Co-created an AI-based platform to provide personalized speech therapy online, offering diagnostic tools, recommendations for speech exercises, and a robust collection of games and forums. Launched to 100+ stutterers and speech-language pathologists (SLPs), raising $15K from national and international pitch events.Speaker at March 2021 TEDx talk to a local audience of 200+ viewers

Organized weekly coding classes at local middle schools to teach the fundamentals of Python. Created a curriculum that emphasized learning to ask questions and challenging the status quo.Led 6 coaches to teach Python curriculum for 150+ students of primarily under-represented backgrounds. Organized external hackathons, programming workshops, and guest talks.