chart nº 3 · works & undertakings
Shi-Tao Chang
being a faithful survey of code, language & land
lat 30°17′N · lon 097°44′W · austin, texas
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About
obs. at first light
learning about the world to maybe use a sextant.
interested in spatial datascience, neuro ai, & human-centered geography.
currently doing geo ai research @ GISense Lab
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Experience
bearings taken
▸01 research assistant · gisense lab mar 2026 —
gisense lab · austin, tx · fix nº 01
- Reproduced and fine-tuned baseline models to generate landscapes from sound.
- Developing and evaluated raw video datasets.
- Currently engineering multimodal EEG models for human-centered applications.
▸02 backend/ml engineer · tx luminescence sep 2025 —
tx luminescence · austin, tx · fix nº 02
- Developed back-end architecture for an AI-powered educational app for K–12 learning.
- Integrated AI model with RAG to enhance app functionality and learning outcomes.
- Flask, Supabase.
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Projects
soundings, in order taken
▸01 ecoscan mar 2026 ⚓
python · yolov11 · sounding nº 01
- On-device waste detection app with FastAPI backend.
- Fine-tuned YOLOv11 for waste classification — 24 recyclable and hazardous waste classes.
- Placed top 30 out of 500+ teams at Woz Hackathon.
▸02 contextosolver apr 2026 ⚓
word2vec · glove · fasttext · svd · sounding nº 02
- Compared Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText, and SVD under the same training setup to test whether algorithm choice alone changes embedding geometry.
- GloVe and SVD are strongest for Contexto-style navigation; Word2Vec performs best on word-similarity benchmarks.
- Reproducible and controlled study; conclusions limited to one English corpus, fixed dimensions, and a capped vocabulary.
▸03 takemeter jun 2026 ⚓
python · distilbert · huggingface · groq · sounding nº 03
- Fine-tuned distilbert-base-uncased on 202 hand-labeled UT Austin Discord posts across four discourse categories.
- Found a zero-shot llama-3.3-70b baseline beat it 90.3% vs 71.0% — diagnosed the gap as a topical-keyword shortcut that collapses on function-defined labels.
- Validated with Cohen's κ=0.869 inter-annotator agreement and confidence calibration (100% accuracy above 0.5 softmax).
▸04 mypersona mar 2026 ⚓
python · asyncio · discord.py · sounding nº 04
- Real-time Discord bot generating persona-based replies.
- Few-shot prompting engineered from real user message corpora.
- Groq and Kagi APIs — 250+ languages and styles supported.
▸05 utfoods jun 2026 ⚓
python · sentence-transformers · groq · gradio · sounding nº 05
- RAG QA over 60 review-level chunks scraped from Reddit, Yelp, Discord, and local news on UT Austin dining.
- MiniLM embeddings with cosine retrieval, grounded llama-3.3-70b generation at temp 0.2 with out-of-scope refusal.
- Inline source-file citations suppressed on refusals, served through a Gradio query interface.
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Uni
port of registry
⚑ut austin · co'29
▸01 campus involvement dirp · uls · txl
organizations · mustered aboard
- DiRP — Member (Aug 2025–present), Administrator (Apr 2026–present). Coordinated outbound sponsorship and fundraising email campaigns to corporate partners for CS Research organization.
- ULS — Member (Aug 2025–present), Journal Club Manager (Apr 2026–present). Led paper discussions on language interpretation and grammatical rhetoric.
- TX Luminescence — Backend/ML Engineer.
▸02 relevant coursework ut
classes taken at ut
- Machine Learning for Text Analysis
- Data Structures
- Discrete Math
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Honors
colours hoisted
▸01 ut summer research scholar summer 2026
research program
- Selected into undergraduate research professional development program for summer 2026.
▸02 $1500 research assistantship summer 2026
scholarship
- Received $1500 for summer 2026 research assistantship at GISense Lab.
★university honors 2025
