Jason Zhang

Jason Zhang

Computer Engineering @ University of Toronto

Biography

I'm a 3nd-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I love to learn, and I'm passionate about tackling tough interdisciplinary engineering challenges spanning software and hardware engineering. My interests include programming language design, systems software, computer architecture, machine learning, image processing, and reconfigurable computing.

I previously did research with the Discovery program, where I studied pedagogical development in engineering graduate students using thematic and sentiment analysis. Our work also involved applied natural language processing using NLTK in Python.

Outside of school, I'm also a member of the University of Toronto Aerospace Team's Space Systems group, where I'm working on building circuitry for next-generation satellites.

For a sense of what I'm learning, I publish my notes.

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Work

Past projects:

Pixel art style game start screen, titled Whack-an-Engineer

Whack-an-Engineer

A whack-a-mole inspired game written in Verilog for a Cyclone V FPGA (on Terasic's DE1-SoC platform). We had custom IO, with PS/2 keyboard/mice and VGA display, incorporated complex finite state machines, and clock crossing.

Project 2

Student Spaces in Residence

A client engineering project to redesign residence spaces on the University of Toronto's St. George campus. Our conceptual design specifications proposed improvements with a focus on safety and cost.


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