Nicholas Yan

Music is an integrated part of my identity and a deep-seated passion of mine. My pursuit of music has not only driven me to explore technologies but also inspired me to engage in research in AI field. I aspire to blend these two words and become both a musician and a researcher in AI’s application.

• Mu Alpha Theta Mathematics Honor Society
• FHS Honor Society
• Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) student member

● Rhythm Game Music Composition (4 hrs/week) 2018 -

Compose rhythm game music with GarageBand; 100+ original works and 109K+ views on my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CubeyThePenguin

Representative Works

“ΛZIMUTH”, Disc 1 Track 9, Album "LAST BOSS RUSH", 2023 Spring M3

“ Milkweed“, Disc 1 Track 22, Album “Limit Breaker XVII /Hitch Hiker”, 2023 Spring M3

“Mithridates”, (ranked top 4.9-8.7% out of 800 songs submitted), Dynamix, 2023

“Ctrl+Y”, Album “Aetheric.”, 2023 Fall M3

“Aethergate”, Album “Reverse Verse -逆の詩-”, 2023 Fall M3

● Knoxville Youth Symphony Orchestra (2 hrs/wk, G6-present):

Cellist

Rehearse for and perform in four public concerts every year.

● Cello Practice (3.5 hrs/wk, G5-present): Receive private lessons and practice at home

● Math Club & Mu Alpha Theta Club (2hrs/wk) Aug 2020 – May 2024 

Vice President of Competition and Math Tutor: Competition events and training organization; Tutoring peers with Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, and Pre-calculus.

● Science Club (2.5hrs/wk) Aug 2020 – May 2024

Member & Mentor: Receive training for Science Bowl and Science Olympiad; Prepare middle school students for upcoming Science Bowl competition.

● Coding Club (1hr/wk)      Aug 2020 – May 2024  

Member: Learning Coding with Python.

● FHS Honor Society (1hr/week) Aug 2021 – May 2024

Member: Volunteering in community events such as Knoxville Asian Festival, Farragut Christmas Parade, etc.

  Full scholarship from Governor's School for Computational Physics (June 5-24, 2022) 

● Took college-level Computational Methods for Scientists and Engineers at Austin Peay State Univ. (Onsite classes cover programming/visualization, mechanics/electricity /magnetism, diffusion/differentiation/integration/finite differential methods /differential equation/Taylor series; group learning; field trip to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, AL).

ARC Growing STEM Teachers Internship at Univ. of Tennessee CEEMS (25 hrs/wk, June 1-28, 2021) 

● As the youngest participant of this outreach program organized by Univ. of Tennessee, I learned teaching strategies/standards, lesson plans, presentation strategies, and collaborative teaching skills and worked as a counselor for KidsU STEM Camp at the University of Tennessee.

● Selective AwesomeMath camp, 2021

● Selective Astrophysics camp Vanderbilt University, 2021

● Selective MathPath camp 2019

● MATLAB Fundamentals, 3-day course from MathWorks

● Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT, from Vanderbilt University on Coursera

● Build AI Apps with ChatGPT, Dall-E, and GPT-4, from Scrimba on Coursera

● Mentor, Farragut Middle School (FMS) Science Club (1.5 hr/wk, G10-present)

Preparing students at FMS Science Club for upcoming Science Bowl competitions

● Math Tutor, Farragut High School Student Tutor (1 hr/wk, G9- present)

Tutoring peers in Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, and Pre-calculus 

● Peer Model, Ascent Autism Peer Group (1 hr/wk, G10)

Modeled social skills for mild autistic teenagers through online meetings overseen by a professional during the pandemic when in-person activities were canceled.

● Volunteer, FHS National Honor Society (30hrs/school year, G10-G12): volunteering in on-campus and off-campus community events.

● Volunteer, Second Harvest Food Bank in Maryville, TN (total 21 hours, G10-G11): helping sort and label food packages. 

● FHS Tennis Varsity Team (65hrs/season, G9-12): member

Award: Most Dependable Player in 2022

Award: District and Regional team champions in 2021

● Tennis practice (6 hrs/wk, G4-present): tennis player 

• AMC12/AMC10 AIME Qualifier in 2023, 2022, 2021
• US National Chemistry Olympiad National round qualifier in 2023
• Science Bowl National Competition Top 16 in 2020
• Science Bowl State Competition 2nd place in 2022 and 2021; 1st Place in 2020
• MAO Nationals (Mu Alpha Theta) 2nd place in 2021, 6th place in 2022
• MAO State (Mu Alpha Theta) 1st place Speed Math, Mental Math 2022; 3rd place 2021
• Science Olympiad 2nd place in Regional in 2023; 4th place in State in 2022
• MATHCOUNTS Chapter State Team 1st place in 2019
• MATHCOUNTS Chapter Individual 2nd place in 2020; 2nd Place in 2018
• MATHCOUNTS Chapter Countdown 2nd place in 2020; 1st place in 2019
• MATHCOUNTS Chapter Team 1st place in 2020, 2019 and 2018
• TMTA Regional High School Mathematics Competition: 2nd place Statistics, 2023
• TMTA 63rd Annual Mathematics Competition: 1st place Geometry, 2019
• TMTA State-wide High School Mathematics Contest: 3rd place Geometry, 2019
• ASMA: School-wide Highest Scorer in 2023
• Knoxville Federation Music Festival: piano solo in Difficult Level 1) Superior++ 2021