Pan Chen

Education

Honours Bachelor of Science | University of Toronto – St. George | September 2018 - Present

Specialist: Computer Science, focusing in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.
Minor: Statistics Science, Eastern Asian Studies
Computer Science related courses: Introduction to Computer Science, Mathematical Expression and Reasoning for Computer Science, Software Design, Linear Algebra II, Probability with Computer Applications, Introduction to Language, Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Software Tools and Systems Programming, Data Structures and Analysis, The Design of Interactive Computational Media, Introduction to Databases, Introduction to Software Engineering, Programming on the Web, Introduction to Combinatorics, Algorithm Design, Analysis & Complexity, Operating Systems

Bachelor of Engineering (unfinished) | Northeastern University | September 2017 – July 2018

Major: Computer Science and Technology
Computer Science related courses: Advanced Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics, Fundamentals of Programming: C, Introduction to Computer Science, Linear Algebra, Object-oriented Programming: C++, Introduction to Deep Learning

Extra Courses

Data Science Professional by IBM
Web Applications for Everybody by University of Michigan

Experience

Webmaster & Editor | Chen's Notes | Novermber 2016 - Present

Chen's Notes is a Chinese website that currently has a server in Republic of Singapore. The main topic is Tech News, Internet, Free Resources, Tutorials, and Reviews on Online Products.

Quality Assurance | Infrastructures for Information | June 2020 - August 2020

Infrastructures for Information is an independent software company specializing in the delivery of XML / SGML document processing software in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, founded by Michel Vulpe in 1993.

Software Developer | Infrastructures for Information | August 2020 - August 2021

Infrastructures for Information is an independent software company specializing in the delivery of XML / SGML document processing software in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, founded by Michel Vulpe in 1993.

Skills

Programming Languages

C, C++, Python, Java, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, NodeJS, PHP, SQL, R

Frameworks/Libraries

Frameworks/Libraries: JQuery, Bootstrap, Express.js, TensorFlow.js, PoseNet.js, Angular, React, RubyJS, d3js, Socket.IO, Laravel

Techniques

Ajax, LAMP

Database

MySQL, MongoDB

Tools

Git, Google Cloud, AWS, Jupyter, TensorFlow, Apache, IntelliJ IDEA, MongoDB Atlas, phpMyAdmin, MongoDB Compass, Postman

Operating System

Ubuntu, Windows

Projects

3030.link - URL Shortener

3030.link is a URL shortener that was build with MongoDB, Express.js, and Node.js.
Every user has ten quotes which they could pay to get their customized short url for any url.

Your Today

Your Today is a Web Application that is built with Express for the backend, ReactJS for the frontend, and MongoDB for the databse. Many frameworks / libraries / External API have been used, such as Material-UI, Socket.IO, OpenWeatherMap and so on.
I developed this webapp in a team of four.
The aim of Your Today is to give the user the ability to have a highly-customized homepage for their browser. For instance, they can create a list of most-visited websites so that they can visit these websites more easily.
The webapp also brings instant messaging features. Knowing a person's username, you can send the person a message. If the person is online, he well get the message immediately.

Dynamic Resume Management System

Using HTML, JavaScript (and JQuery), CSS and PHP and with the knowledege of AJAX, JSON, and SQL. I built this Dynamic Resume Management System.
You can login the Admin Panel with your username and password, and then you can add / update / delete any stuff from your resume. There is no easier way to get your resume online!
What's more, the resume generated by this system is completely mobile friendly, that makes it easy for everyone to view your resume everywhere.
My resume here is generated by this system.

Personal Website

Designed and Maintained my personal website on an Ubuntu server like a full-stack developer, with the skills of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, and Ubuntu.
The brand-new 2020 version is refactored using Laravel, the PHP framework which follows the model–view–controller architectural pattern.
The website also has CMS features and it wins a 100% Lighthouse performance score.

Pizza Parlour APIs

I created the Web APIs with Python and Flask.
Both integration and unit tests are applied, making sure that the features: order pizza, order drink, change order, check menu, set delivery, and so on, were implemented correctly.

Luxury Rentals Database

I designed the Database Schema for a fictitious company "Luxury Rental" in a database course.
The database they used was the relational PostgreSQL.

CP - WordPress

Developed a theme for a content management system named WordPress which has powered more than one third of the websites globally.
Applied Masonry Layout Design, Enabled the Customizability to better the user experience. Other features include fixed header, pop-out panel, dynamic description, read progress indicator.

Face-Control Snake Game

Applied a TensorFlow model called PoseNet to detect the player’s position in real time, so that the player can move their face to control their snake to eat more apples.

Prefix trees and Melodies

The program stores words and their prefix’s in the Tree data structure. And people can look up a prefix and then get a list of the corresponding words that have the prefix. This program was written in Python.

Neural Network with MNIST database

Applied image classification with 95.96% accuracy on the MNIST dataset using a neural network applied through TensorFlow.

Bank Management System

Applied a variety of software design patterns including Iterator, Observer, Strategy, and model–view–controller. Also designed a fully functional GUI for user input using the java swing package.
Implemented software testing code using JUnit.

Library Management System

The library management system was developed with my classmates at Northeastern University. This library management system satisfies the basic needs for library management such as borrowing books, returning books, and searching for books. This library management system was written in C++.

Whack A Mole

Developed a popular arcade redemption game with Verilog in FPGA board.

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