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👋 Hi, I'm Vincent Zhao

I'm a Computer Science Student at Purdue University.

I am interested in full-stack development, robotics, computer vision, and data science.

Work Experiences

Purdue AI for Musicians Research Group

Undergraduate Researcher

Purdue AI for Musicians Research Group

Developed backend scripts for Purdue AIM music transcription competition, automating project queueing and job scheduling.
Implemented cloning, SCP transfer, and job queueing on Purdue's Gilbreth GPU cluster for streamlined processing.
Created scoring and cleanup scripts for transcription model submission workflows, converting audio into MIDI and grading the result.
Utilized SLURM job scheduling with sbatch to ensure dependency-driven script execution and resource optimization.

Office of Indiana State Chemist

Software Engineer

Office of Indiana State Chemist

Implemented forms used by over 300 inspection agents to collect data on pesticides, feeds, and other similar products.
Redesigned barcode input to handle EAN-8, UPC-E, and EAN-13 codes rather than just UPC-A
Developed custom media viewer that handles audio, video, image, and documents with rotation and magnification features
Wrote file server app for converting files from HEIC, and other image formats to JPG and for interview transcription

New EIC

Software Engineer Intern

Developed JWT authentication workflow for internal training application with ExpressJS and React Native.
Implemented multilingual support using i18next, including developing scripts to scan for and translate all text elements.
Created frontend for screens from Figma designs with calls to MongoDB server for data to hydrate screens.

Purdue Data Mine Space Biology Research

Researcher

Purdue Data Mine Space Biology Research

Analyzed microarray data for over 25k genes for evidence of photorespiration in spaceflight vs ground control studies.
Presented changes in expression of proteins coded for by genes in different plant pathways using the KEGG database
Mapped changes in gene expression for genes related to photorespiration to gene locations with AraCyc and SUBA 5

Purdue IEEE ROV Team

Computer Vision Engineer

Purdue IEEE ROV Team

Created detection algorithms identifying pieces of underwater structures independent of background
Wrote program to aspect ratio of rectangular surface in real world from irregular quadrangle identified in image
Developed opencv program for measuring side lengths of rectangles of known width to 0.04 m accuracy
Worked with ROS to communicate control actions and calculations between Raspberry PI nodes and user interface nodes

Amazon AWS Open Search

Open Source Contributor

Amazon AWS Open Search

Collaborated with Amazon project maintainers and mentors in open-source workflow and OpenSearch codebase
Wrote train_and_predict function for the Open Search Python ML package to interface with ML Commons Client
Created unit tests for ML Commons Client using pytest framework to upload, load, and train models

Monta Vista Robotics Team

Director of Software

Monta Vista Robotics Team

Managed a team of 15 to create robot code in Java for the team's 2022 and 2023 world championship qualifying robots
Created vision system for reflective and fiducial targets to localize robot relative to field within 0.1 meters of its true pose
Built mobile app and custom data visualization dashboard (React Native/React) for scouting to gain strategic advantages
Implemented new systems for vision, control, and data analysis to help team's performance at competitions.
Taught 50 incoming members basic Java, JavaScript, React, and robot control system concepts

Skills

Programming Languages

Python

Java

JavaScript

📄TypeScript

HTML

CSS

📊R

📂SQL

👾C

Frameworks

ReactJS

Tensorflow

🧮NumPy

🐼pandas

🚂Express

Flutter

NextJS

📱React Native

Electron

Node JS

🧪pytest

Technologies

Git

Firebase

OpenCV

ROS

Linux

🔄Unix

GitHub

Google Cloud

🔄REST API

Docker

🎨Photoshop

InDesign

Projects

Jakarta

Semantically searchable crossword clue banks with custom authentication

Word Embeddings

NY Times Crossed

NY Times Crossed

Solver for NY Times mini games (Wordle/Connections/Mini)

Word Embeddings

Emotional Oranges

Emotional Oranges

ML Spotify API Hackathon Project

MVRT 2023 Robot

MVRT 2023 Robot

2023 FRC World Championship Divisonal Semifinalist Robot

Computer Vision

⚙️Control Theory

Robot Scouting System

Robot Scouting System

MVRT scouting data collection and analytics dashboard

📱React Native

My Student Sidekick

My Student Sidekick

A collection of tools to aid students on their schoolwork

📱React Native

MVRT 2022 Robot

MVRT 2022 Robot

2022 FRC World Championship Qualifying Robot

Computer Vision

⚙️Control Theory

Legal Nest

2nd Place at Cupertino Hackathon

📱React Native

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