David Deng

David Deng

New York, New York, United States
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  • Plaid Graphic

    Plaid

    New York, New York, United States

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    San Francisco, California, United States

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    Los Angeles, California, United States

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    Menlo Park, California, United States

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    Seattle, Washington, United States

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    Los Angeles, California, United States

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    San Jose, California, United States

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    Berkeley, CA

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    Lafayette, CA

Education

  • UCLA Graphic

    University of California, Los Angeles

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    Activities and Societies: Creative Labs, DevX, Daily Bruin, Data Science Union, Tau Beta Pi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon

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    Activities and Societies: Speech and Debate (co-President and Webmaster), Varsity Men's Volleyball, Chess Club (co-President and founder), Peer Tutor

Volunteer Experience

  • Neo Graphic

    Neo Scholar

    Neo

    - Present 1 year 11 months

Courses

  • Algorithms and Complexity

    CS 180

  • Calculus of Several Variables

    Math 32A, Math 32B

  • Computer Networks

    CS 118

  • Computer Organization

    CS 33

  • Data Science

    CS M148

  • Data Structures & Algorithms

    CS 32

  • Discrete Math

    Math 61

  • Distributed Algorithms and Blockchains

    CS 188

  • Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence

    CS 161

  • Introduction to C++

    CS 31

  • Operating System Principles

    CS 111

  • Programming Languages

    CS 131

  • Software Construction Projects

    CS 97

  • Waves, Oscillations, and Electricity

    Physics 1B

Projects

  • Affinity (UCLA Creative Labs)

    - Present

    - Machine learning engineer for a Chrome extension using machine learning to measure political bias in news articles.
    - Used word embedding, bag of words, and sentiment analysis to build a natural language processing model.
    - Leveraged classifiers such as Naive Bayes, SVM, and Logistic Regression to improve performance.
    - Achieved over 75% accuracy and an AUROC of 0.92 on training data for three-class classification.

  • r u safe, buddy?

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    - iOS application developed with four other students for LA Hacks 2020.
    - The app alerts the user if they are within six feet of other people, promoting “social distancing”.
    - Worked on the backend using iBeacon in Swift to detect nearby devices and estimate proximity.
    - Created the Swift frontend to display different screens depending on distance.

  • Kaggle NFL Big Data Bowl

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    Member of a 2-person Silver Medalist team (top 5%) in the worldwide Kaggle NFL Big Data Bowl in 2019.
    Primarily worked on feature engineering, creating interaction features to train a three-layered neural network.
    These features significantly improved the deep learning model in predictions of future run plays.

Honors & Awards

  • Academic All American

    National Speech and Debate Association

    Awarded for excellence in academics and speech and debate.

  • Alumni Scholarship

    UCLA Alumni Association

    Merit-based scholarship offered at UCLA.

  • National AP Scholar

    College Board

    Granted to students in the United States who receive an average score of at least 4 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams.

  • National Merit Finalist

    National Merit Scholarship Corporation

    Offered to 15,000 students across the country every year for scoring highly on the PSAT and displaying consistent academic excellence.

  • Regents Scholarship

    University of California

    Awarded to the top 1.5% of UCLA applicants every year for academic and leadership abilities.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Chinese

    Professional working proficiency

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