Vincent Zhu Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Creating interactive light & sound for multimedia artwork.
• Designing and building software systems, networking and hardware devices for multimedia installations, through research in art, computation and AI.
• Marketing support: documenting behind-the-scenes, and developing SEO strategies.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Continued building technologies for multimedia artworks:
• Embedded audio system programming and research
• MIDI control surface for audio-visual performance
• DMX lighting control system for large scale lighting fixtures

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Collaborated with media artists to build technologies for interactive multimedia art installation and performance:
• Real-time audio analysis machine
• DMX lighting control system
• Hardware and circuit fabrication

• I do various kinds of photography work upon request, including: gallery installation shots, artwork documentation, portraits, and event photography.

Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States

• Designed the new website and other visuals for Gaa Gallery.
• Photographed artworks and installation views, edited and retouched photos for artists, using Adobe Photoshop.
• Assisted installing two shows, creating exhibition catalogues & preview brochures, and packing artworks.

Researched deep reinforcement learning for open environment multi-agent intelligent systems. Advised by Adam Eck.

• Assisted Pipo Nguyen-Duy in photography processes including: digitizing and archiving film negatives, editing film scans, overseeing printing process, as well as framing and finishing prints.
• Tutored photography students in darkroom process, studio lighting and digital printing; monitored Oberlin Photo Lab to maintain all the chemicals, printing rooms and camera equipment in good shape.

• Analyzed and improved a Monte-Carlo Tree Search based planning algorithm for multi-agent, partially observable, open environment systems, using PyTorch. Working with professor Adam Eck.
• Created interactive visualization tools to analyze experiment results, using R and Shiny App.

Oberlin, Ohio, United States

• Tutored students in basic programming skills and data structures; helped debugging programs in Python and Java.
• Graded student coding assignments and provided feedback.
• Supported diversity in the lab by working at the women and transgender safe space hours and the people of color lab hours

• Developed the first archaeological interactive map for visualizing prehistoric American Southwestern ceramic design pattern, using ArcGIS; work was published in The SAA Archaeological Record Vol. 22, No. 1.
• Assisted Prof. Dorothy Washburn in analyzing human activities and social structure with the map.

Oberlin, Ohio, United States

• Collaborated with other team members to reconstruct and upgrade the website "Prestissimo" for students and professors of Oberlin College to manage courses and schedule
• Implemented the new Data Model and Controller for the website structure
• Tested the new server with the database and erased abnormality using RSpec
• Related tools and programming technique: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, RSpec

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science - Visual Computing

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Fine And Studio Arts

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer Science

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