My name is Dian and I'm currently a fourth year student at the University of Toronto.

I'm passionate about solving problems and telling stories through code.

1. Sign of the Times
   • Description: create machine learning models to detect forged signatures and display them on an interactive website
   • My Role: Team Lead
   • Languages & Libraries: Python, React, HTML, CSS
   • NOTE: still in progress
2. EPAI Sentiment of Tweets
   • Description: create machine learning models to detect forged signatures and display them on an interactive website
   • My Role: implement machine learning models (RNN, and LSTM) using PyTorch to predict 8 labels (“violence”, “genocide”, etc.) about the sentiment of a tweet
   • Languages & Libraries: Python and PyTorch
3. Just Leave It At Home (JuLIAH)
   • Description: turn an STM32 Discovery Board into a communication device that uploads loud recordings to a website and flashes when the website's button is clicked
   • My Role: implement monitoring noise and communicating using MQTT
   • Languages & Libraries: C++, Mbed
4. PetPal
   • Description: pet adoption website
   • My Role: implement comment, rating and auto-score application features
   • Languages & Libraries: React, JavaScript, HTML, Tailwind CSS
5. Ranchville
   • Description: farm simulation game with features such as growing and harvesting plants; buying and selling products
   • My Role: implement leaderboard and sharing your farm
   • Languages & Libraries: Java, Java Swing, JUnit
6. The Hidden Correlation Between Covid-19 and Hate Crimes in the United States
   • Description: an interactive Choropleth map of the USA to visualize the correlation between monthly hate crime rates and monthly Covid incidence rates
   • My Role: convert raw data in a csv to custom data class, implement Choropleth map
   • Languages & Libraries: Python, Plotly