Alan Luo

Personal Statement

I’m a part-time developer, part-time student, and full-time maker with a passion for learning and creating awesome projects. I specialize in interdisciplinary work that bridges creativity and code. I see technology as a tool to drive forward global education and research. I believe that communication and clear language is the foundation of all quality work.

Professional Experience

Sponsored by Ethereum Foundation. Creating the world's first-ever real-time game on Ethereum using zkSNARKs. Leading front-end using React and Webpack. Created procedural graphics using canvas. Presented work to 2020 Ethereum Workshop.

Developing applied technologies for augmented reality and virtual reality with Prof. Steven Feiner. Currently working on project to use augmented reality as a means of improving training for dental students.

Worked as a contractor and developer for a variety of projects, with an emphasis on open-source company organization and rapid prototyping. Created a VR Chatbot for lead conversion, and built the Smart Inquirer an AI-based assistant for analyzing legal documents which is entering deployment. Used Scrum / OKRs internally for project management.

I do freelance consulting. I specialize in doing every part of web work, from design to full-stack development to content writing to SEO. I specialize in WebGL and creative work, adding interactive elements to help clients build their brand.

Created interactive interface for data labelling and feature engineering. Wrote paper and poster. Created Javascript library for running Amazon Mechanical Turk experiments. Later, presented to school about research work.

Created page to generate random artistic interpretations of alien planet landscapes. I used Javascript and HTML5 Canvas. The project is open-source on Github (/alan-luo/planetprocedural), and has 8000 views, 68 stars, and 5 forks. I also wrote 40 pages of documentation to explain the processes and algorithms that power the page.

Education

GPA: 4.06/4.00. Egleston Scholar - Columbia’s most competitive engineering scholarship (<1% acceptance rate)

Clubs: Application Development Initiative (committee member), Columbia Creative Coding Club (founder) CU Records (recording engineer), Jazz Ensemble (piano and guitar), Musical Mentors (guitar teacher)

Teaching: Programming for Social Impact (TA, Fall 2019, Spring 2020)

Courses: Multivariable Calculus (A+), Data Structures (A+), Physics I / II (A+), Real Analysis (A), Advanced Programming (A+*), Fundamentals of Computer Systems (A*), Differential Equations (A**)

Skills

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HackPrinceton 2019: Won Contrary front-end developer competition.

Duolingo Certified Expert in English (2019-02-23): “Can understand virtually anything, even… academic lecture[s] and book[s] on philosophy. Can use the language [in] a way that [is] more advanced than an average native speaker.