About
Emily Wang
About
I am a hard-working and passionate individual with an urge to learn new technologies and skills. After graduating from UCLA, I decided to continue my studies as a graduate student in Computer Science, further exploring my interests and pushing my abilities. As a future Software Engineer, I want to be able solve problems in creative ways while hopefully impacting the lives of others.
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Here Are Some of My Skills
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1 - Languages & Skills
- Java
- Python
- C++
- C
- HTML/CSS
- PHP
- MySQL
- JavaScript
- Machine Learning
3 - Software Engineering Tools Used
- Agile/Scrum
- Mercurial
- Github
2 - Courses Taken
- Programming C++
- Advanced Java
- Data Structures/Algorithms
- Networking
- Programming Languages
- Computer Architecture
- Software Construction Laboratory
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
- Bayesian Networks
- Machine Learning Algorithms
- Web Information Systems
- Database Systems
Projects
Projects
Projects
1 - Tamagotchi Health App
Created Android Application based on the Tamagotchi toy. Involves an animated avatar reacting to inputs from AWARE sensors such as amount of user's exercise and screen usage, and updates avatar's happiness score. Goal is to promote a healthy lifestyle. Created using Java in Android Studio. Youtube demo is available. Application abstract downloadable as a PDF here.
2 - Partial Iterative FGSM Attack
Studied research field of Adversarial Machine Learning and worked with attack models to misclassify input images. Modified Iterative Fast Gradient Sign method to perturb select pixels of an image away from the gradient of the loss function. Tested project by running on MNIST challenge models.
3 - Reddit Television
Displayed Reddit thread comments on both live and recorded television using Java in Eclipse. Worked on a team of four Software Engineer interns during a summer internship at DIRECTV, which exposed me to Agile/Scrum methodologies and Mercurial for code collaboration. Ended with a presentation of my contributions in front of the CFO and other executives.
4 - MASSIVE Game
Created a game in ten weeks based on Agar.io and Kirby. I used C++ and the cross-platform IDE/game engine Qt Creator. Youtube demo is available.
5 - Mixabot
Made a Facebook ChatBot application in a group of three at LA Hacks. It analyzes picture or text input and cultivates a Spotify playlist based on the emotions displayed. I worked with IBM's Watson API for text analysis and Microsoft's Emotion API for facial analysis.