Hi, I'm Zach. I love artificial intelligence, data science, and computer science. Look below to learn more about me and see my projects!
>>> Zach.location
'Berkeley, CA'

>>> Zach.education
{'school' : 'Univeristy of California, Berkeley', 'gpa' : 3.7, 'expectedGraduation' : 'May 2020', "major" : "Computer Science"}

>>> Zach.interests
'["Artificial Intelligence", "Data Science", "Efficient Algorithms", "Weightlifting", "Triathalons", "Entrepreneurship"]'

>>> Zach.email
'zachchao@berkeley.edu'

>>> Zach.resume
resume.pdf

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Projects

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IOT security network

Won first place in beginner hack, first in tech domain, second in SmartCar API and third overall out of 400+ hackers at SacHacks. We built Carmour, a platform which uses our community's cars to make our streets a bit safer. Implemented an Inception V2 model to detect crime from cameras installed on cars. Notifying the network through SMS using Twilio, visualizations done in a web application with Google's Map API. As well provided smart contract system through Ethereum's network.

Competition Machine Learning Teamwork
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Augmented Reality Visual Assistance Tool

Won first place in augmented reality section at world's largest collegiate hackathon, Cal Hacks, 2300+ hackers. Created a heads up visual assistance tool for the low vision and cognitively impaired. Implemented a MASK R-CNN trained on the imagenet and MS COCO data sets with tensorflow, Google's speech to text API for voice commands and OpenCV and Pillow for other image features.

Competition Machine Learning Teamwork
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Customer Complaint Analysis

Won second in GM's Machine Learning hackathon. Created a custom word embedding model which mapped customer complaints to subareas. Then mapped each subarea to the engineering defect which was most likely to have caused it the complaints within that subarea.

Competition Machine Learning Data Mining Natural Language Processing Teamwork
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Instagram Automation Service

Chrome extension which allows for simple bot integration to a web browser. Supplies automated user interaction and progress tracking. Currently over 200 users.

Full Stack Front End Back End Application Software Development
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Reinforcement Learning

Different Reinforcement Learning algorithms from David Silver's lectures at University College London applied to OpenAI's gym and other games.

Artificial Intelligence Game Theory
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Expectimax Game AI

Won fourth out of six hundred in Berkeley competition for best AI to solve a complicated game with up to ten dice. Implemented expectimax using dynamic programming and probability theory.

Game Theory Competition Artificial Intelligence Dynamic Programming
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Web Crawlers

Much of the work in data science is data acquisition and cleaning. Created a multitude of spiders using Python requests and scrapy to collect labeled data and pipeline it databases for machine learning and data science.

Data Mining Databases Competition
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Group Project Designs

Created group projects in MiraCosta college's Data Structures and Algorithms class. Served as SCRUM master on the projects to teach students SCRUM, linked lists, MVC, Git, UML and JUnit testing.

Internship Sotware Development Project Management
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Hashtag Sentiment Analysis

Using word2vec, TSNE and KNN, created a model which takes a hashtag and outputs a more popular related hashtag which caters to a larger audience, optimizing usage.

Natural Language Processing Data Science Machine Learning
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Instagram Data Analytics

A service which, when given an Instagram username will fetch the user's data and using several machine learning models and data analytics, outputs improvements the user can make as well as the percent improvement to be expected.

Data Science Machine Learning Web Application