Hello! Nice to meet you,
I'm Andy Zhao, a hobbyist storyteller, artist, and game developer! I'm always looking to make something cool or learn something new.
I graduated from UBC in Computer Science, and I'm presently a computer vision research assistant at BC Cancer and at
The Hafeli Lab at UBC.
I also hosted vhHacks in 2021, inviting 48 high school students across Vancouver to our premiere high school hackathon.
Uber Support Redesign
Given frustration about getting support from Uber rides, our team performed a usability study to find pain points with the current interface, and developed low and medium fidelity prototypes to improve the Uber Support interface. Learn more.
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FigmaProject Type
Design Prototype User Study
Euphoria
A cyberpunk platformer combat game.
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C++ OpenGLProject Type
Game
A Lone Oak
A Lone Oak was a survival game I began working on in 2016. It was inspired from the poem I wrote of the same name, back in 2014. It uses random terrain generation to create a randomized side-scrolling level for the player to explore. The player obtains resources from a single oak tree that resides in the centre of the world, and must survive until rescue arrives. This game taught me many lessons on optimization, and it was a great creative outlet.
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GameMaker StudioProject Type
Game
FoodPrint
Food waste presents a major sustainability issue across the world, where approximately 1/3 of the world's food (1.3 billion tonnes) of food is wasted in the world every year. In an effort to reduce food waste and promote sustainable living, our app FoodPrint allows a user to take a photo of a food item and it will suggest recipes that include the item so that you can plan your meals around what you already have in your kitchen.
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Java Google CloudProject Type
SoftwareUndergraduate Academic Assistant
The University of British Columbia Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Hafeli Lab)May 2023 - Present
• Designed novel computer vision framework for a pose-estimated mouse atlas
• Developed application package for atlas registration and radioactivity measurement
• Won 2nd place poster presenter at the SSRP Poster Day (2023) with novel mouse atlas research
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Python CUDA Scipy ScikitUndergraduate Research Assistant
BC Cancer Research Deparment of Dermatology and Skin Science (Lee Lab)May 2021 - Present
• Designed feature fusion AI model and performed finetuning on state-of-the-art AI segmentation model to
provide 180% improvement on segmentation metrics from default model
• Developed a responsive and scalable dermatology image database with Node.JS and MySQL
• Conducted novel research that won 2nd place poster presenter at the UBC Skin Research Day (2022)
• Performed experiments on computing melanin concentration from dermatology images
• Sourced, prepared, and procured a combined 16000+ images for machine learning datasets
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Python PyTorch OpenCV Node.JS SQL Javascript MATLAB Flask Docker CUDA TensorflowWeb Developer
InspoScienceApr 2020 - Jun 2020
• Created the project gallery and submission page for the InspoScience Research and Innovation Competition using static HTML/JS and Firebase.
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HTML/CSS Javascript FirebasePrivate Tutor
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
• Prepared comprehensive lesson plans that covered all curricular material for junior and senior high school students.
• Communicated with students to identify strengths and weaknesses and adapt lesson plans to best suit each student.
• Students achieved 90%+ in course grades.