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Thomas Zeng

Student
Yardley,PA

Summary

Highly motivated student that wants to further pursue research in the areas of natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning. I am planning on going to graduate school to achieve these goals.

Work History

Student Researcher

Modeling Egotism and Choice Research Group, Carleton College, Course, Carleton College
Northfield, MN
01.2022 - Current
  • In a professor lead four-person research group in the field of computational social science
  • Currently involves reading/discussing papers and experimenting with discrete choice models

Prefect/TA

Carleton College
Northfield, MN
01.2022 - Current
  • Part of the course staff for the Winter Term class of Programming Languages
  • Help answer student questions in class
  • Organized biweekly hour-long prefect sessions to help students review
  • Help students with questions through 1 on 1 tutoring

Software Developer Extern

SayKids
Minneapolis, MN
11.2021 - 12.2021
  • Worked at an early-childhood education startup with innovation awards from Amazon and Harvard
  • Designed and implemented an interactive voice game that presents riddles for kids to solve using Alexa API
  • Sourced and cleaned data for an acts of kindness game

Data Structures Course Staff/Lab Assistant

Carleton College
Northfield, MN
09.2001 - 11.2021
  • Aided students with questions and debugging in their computer science labs
  • Helped students with Java and Python questions
  • Helped grade homework for Data Structures course

Lead Counselor

Young People’s Day Camp
Burlington, NJ
06.2021 - 08.2021
  • Planned weekly activities for 10- to 11-year-old boy campers
  • Explained game rules and oversaw each activity
  • Enforced rules and decided disciplinary actions for misbehaving campers
  • Communicated closely with other counselors to devise programs and activities based on developmental levels.

Language Center Assistant

Carleton College
Northfield, MN
09.2020 - 06.2021
  • In charge of streamlining the Language Center website and keeping it up to date with new events
  • Help design and implement language themed events for each term
  • Daily responsibilities of administering quizzes, proctoring tests and general language assistants for students (for Chinese

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science And Linguistics

Carleton College
Northfield, MN
09.2019 - Current

Skills

    Python

Pytorch

Java

GitHub

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Relevant Coursework

  • Algorithms
  • Programming Languages: Design and Implementation
  • Data Structures, Introduction to Computer Systems
  • Computability and Complexity (in progress)
  • Software Design
  • Mathematical Structures
  • Linear Algebra
  • Machine Learning (Coursera)
  • NLP with deep learning(Stanford Online)
  • Deep Learning for Computer Vision (UMichigan Online, in progess)

Related Projects

  • Trained simple MLP and CNN machine learning models on the MNIST dataset using PyTorch
  • Created a neural network classifier of the gender of a human face using the fast.ai library for Python
  • Created a full stack webapp displaying data about endangered languages in the world using Postgresql, Flask and HTML/CSS/Javascript
  • Created an interpreter for the Scheme language in C

Timeline

Prefect/TA

Carleton College
01.2022 - Current

Student Researcher

Modeling Egotism and Choice Research Group, Carleton College, Course, Carleton College
01.2022 - Current

Software Developer Extern

SayKids
11.2021 - 12.2021

Lead Counselor

Young People’s Day Camp
06.2021 - 08.2021

Language Center Assistant

Carleton College
09.2020 - 06.2021

Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science And Linguistics

Carleton College
09.2019 - Current

Data Structures Course Staff/Lab Assistant

Carleton College
09.2001 - 11.2021
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