Gavin Hung

 Research

Relevant experience

University of Maryland, College Park

Research Assistant August 2022 - May 2023
Research Assistant
  • Researched the Quantum Fourier Transform and Classification Algorithms on Quantum Computers and presented a research poster to other researchers.
  • Learned about quantum computing and implementation of machine learning algorithms with Qiskit, PyTorch, Sklearn.
  • Tech: Qiskit, Matplotlib, Python

University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Assistant April 2022 - July 2022
Research Assistant
  • Presented a research project in-person about the orbit of binary star system HIP18267 at the Sagan Workshop at CalTech.
  • Conducted a research project that simulated the orbit around Black Hole Sagittarius A*.
  • Coded web scraper to download astrometric data from Hipparcos Catalog.
  • Tech: Astropy, Numpy, Pandas,Matplotlib, PyTest, Python

University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Assistant July 2021
Research Assistant
  • Researched and collected data about eclipsing binary SW Lac using the telescopes at the Las Cumbres Observatory.
  • Parsed Gigabytes of raw telescope data to extract the brightness of the star system over time.
  • Generated a light curve with parsed data using a fourier series and presented findings at a research symposium.
  • Tech: Astropy, Photutils,Numpy, Matplotlib, LaTex, Python
  • GitHubPaperPresentation

Competitions & Hackathons

Video Conference Platform, Finalist @ UC Berkeley Hackathon

  • Developed video conference platform with meeting rooms, screen sharing, and recording with React and WebSockets.
  • Queried facial and audio expression APIs to track over 100+ emotions of each participant in the video call.
  • Aggregated data from backend and created 4 visualizations to track emotions/sentiment over time.
  • Video

Crop Disease Classification App, Honorable Mention @ Silicon Valley Science Fair

  • Developed IOS and Android app to classify plant diseases using image classification.
  • Built a backend server with AWS services to handle CRUD operations from the apps.
  • Trained deep learning model Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on AWS SageMaker with Python, Keras, TensorFlow, using the plant dataset from the UCI Machine Learning Repository, achieving an accuracy of 90% and validation accuracy of 80%.
  • Coded Nitrogen Detection by using masking, image segmentation, and OpenCV to determine the color of the leaf.
  • GitHubVideo