About | Kevin Wu

Sep 2023

Started CS Masters at University of Chicago

GPA: 3.94/4.00
Joint 4-year B.S./M.S. Computer Science
Coursework: Convex Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Robotics, Time Series and Stochastic Processes, Databases, Distributed Systems, Parallel Computing
Course Grader: MPCS 50103 - Discrete Math, CMSC 27200 - Algorithms

Jun 2023

Classified ECG signals using neural networks with the Fixed-Point Designer Team
Implemented Neural ODE (NODE) and Deep Equilibrium (DEQ) models using PyTorch and Torchdiffeq
End date: August 2023

Jun 2022

Worked as a quality engineer in the Install & Licensing Team to test new licensing features
Designed automated tests in JUnit and MATLAB for the license borrowing UI, expanding code coverage to 100%
Developed performance tests for license validation using Python, exposing bugs in MATLAB startup
End date: September 2022

Nov 2021

Working under UChicago Professor Dr. Ishanu Chattopadhyay in his Zero Knowledge Discovery Lab
Working on Emergenet: Scalable pandemic risk assessment of Influenza A strains circulating in non-human hosts
Implemented and validated novel model to predict risky Influenza strains using only sequence data ($\sim 400k$ sequences
Validated on north and south flu seasons from 2003-2023 across H1N1 and H3N2 subtypes; Emergenet predicts a vaccine recommendation closer to next season's virus population 81% of the time
Emergenet risk scores correlate (R=0.721) with CDC's IRAT (Influenza Risk Assessment Tool) emergence risk scores across 24 analyzed animal Influenza viruses

Jun 2021

Wrote an expository paper on chip-firing and its use in proving the graph-theoretic analogue of Riemann-Roch
Solved problems and attended lectures in combinatorics, geometry, and abstract algebra
End date: August 2021

Sep 2020

GPA: 3.96/4.00
B.S. Computational & Applied Math
Coursework: Statistical Theory and Methods, Real Analysis, Econometrics, Numerical Analysis, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Probability Theory, Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics

May 2019

GPA: 4.67/4.00
Activities: Math Team Vice President, Varsity Swim Team, Georgia Governor's Honors Program (2017), Georgia ARML Team