Shaoying Tan

starred-home

A Personalized Neighborhood Search Tool

My tech stack: HTML+CSS, D3.js

MIT 6.894 Interactive Data Visualization (2019 Spring)
In Collaboration with Tuo Sun, Yao Zhao

Starred Home is a search interface that provides personalized visualization for neighborhood searching. It helps the user to do a highly customized neighborhood search despite limited knowledge of the target city. The web application include following features:
- quick user profiling
- multiple demographic feature filtering
- dynamic visualization based the user input

Legendary coach assistant

A Multimodal Competition Helper for Esports

My tech stack: Python, Tobii SDK, C#

MIT 6.835 Multimodal Intelligent Interface, 2019
In Collaboration with Yuxuan Liu, Yichen Jia

We designed a multimodal system to help Esport coaches make better decisions during matches. The system, named Legendary Coach Assistant, helps the coach observe the mental states of players. Through visualizations of multimodal data, the coach can better understand the team's overall dynamic.

Tripli.com MVP

A Travel Deal Hunter w/ Automated Planning

My tech stack: Bootstrap 4, Angular, React

Tripli.com is a pre-seed startup focusing on integrating deal-hunting and automated travel planning

WIP coming soon, stay tuned!

Cool Stuff I experimented

VR, Machine learning(Salient object detection), 2D/3D emotion detection, pen-computing, Kinect gesture recgnotion, data visualization with Processing.js, automated 3D modeling with REST API, and more to come.

My Background

I recently completed my masters at MIT and have experience working across platforms, disciplines, languages and cultures. Besides design and prototyping skills, I also tried stuff in artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision. See my Résumé for more details.
Looking forward to creating/hacking together :D

M.Sc. Computer Science and Design Computation (Dual degree) 2020

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cumulative GPA: 4.9/5.0
2018-2020 MIT Graduate Fellowship
Key courses: Intelligent Multimodal User Interfaces, Interactive Data Visualization
Thesis: Evaluating Spatial Knowledge Acquisition in Virtual Reality

B.A. Architectural Studies (First Class Honor) 2017

The University of Hong Kong

Cumulative GPA: 3.73/4.3

Creating;
Coding;

Hey! I am Shaoying, a geeky girl passionate about design for emerging technologies and code. I am looking for full-time engineer opportunities in the States.