Sebastian Zhao Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Berkeley, California, United States

• InterACT lab, building bridging systems on top of Community Notes.• Created Python library to simulate user studies with LLMs.• Previously worked on building a YouTube recommendation system with more user control.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

• Published a convolutional neural network pruning paper in NeurIPS building upon a previous ICLR submission• Updated previous structured pruning methods and fed them into an adversarial attack pipeline as a baseline against a novel dense structured kernel pruning method.• Currently contributing to a knowledge graph-based knowledge editing method and efficient training of transformers for recommender systems tasks.

Berkeley, California, United States

• Backend developer in a software development team to support Computer Science Mentors' website• Worked with Django to create a word-of-the-day feature for section attendance and analyzed 4 semesters' worth of student and mentor information, both numerical and written responses, using pandas to inform better teaching practices and to evaluate the trajectory of the organization.

Berkeley, California, United States

Led a project called Lunchpad• Novel transformer architecture and latent diffusion models to fancify pictures of food with a generated recipePreviously worked on Ditto• Using GANs to create pixel art in the style of Pokémon

Berkeley, California, United States

• Teaches a combined lab and discussion section and holds weekly office hours• Updates course content, including creating new test questions and improving programming projects, labs, and discussions.

Berkeley, California, United States

• Taught an exam prep section to prepare students for the midterm and final and held office hours weekly to answer student questions and solidify conceptual understanding.

Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

• Contributed to a paper published in Finance Research Letters on revenue diversification during COVID-19, reviewing literature on historic effects of non-interest income on risk and profitability.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science And Data Science, 3.98

Activities and Societies: Launchpad Computer Science Mentors Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Undergraduate Association Outlet

4.0

Activities and Societies: Steel City Codes Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences Speech and Debate

Dual Enrollment, 4.0

Dual enrollment during high school

Pennsylvania Governor'S School For The Sciences

Attended a STEM summer camp for rising seniors at Carnegie Mellon University.