Eric Zheng

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Eric Zheng

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA
B.S. in Computer Science (GPA: 4.0) Expected May 2023

Selected past and current coursework: distributed systems (15-440), natural language processing (11-411), deep learning (11-485), graduate theory (15-751)

Experience

Jane Street Capital

New York, NY
Software Engineer Intern May 2022 – August 2022
  • Improved monitoring pipeline for risk checking system to use anomaly detection based on historical system data
  • Wrote tool to index transaction logs handling ~20k messages per second, dramatically improving query times

Nexedi

Lille, France
Intern June 2021 – August 2021
  • Packaged Chromium for SlapOS, an open-source cloud orchestration platform
  • Improved an internal monitoring stack, which caught a port assignment error in a widely-used tutorial

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA
Teaching Assistant August 2020 – May 2021
  • TA for linear algebra (21-241) and functional programming (15-150)
  • Responsibilities included leading weekly recitations, grading, holding office hours, and developing new problems

Manipulation Laboratory, CMU Robotics Institute

Pittsburgh, PA
Undergraduate Researcher May 2020 – August 2020
  • Designed robotic in-hand manipulation motions for an industrial assembly task
  • Learned and applied grasp stability metrics to improve robot robustness

ZODAJ Foundation

Pittsburgh, PA
Intern (Part-time) May 2020 – August 2020
  • Wrote web-based game with React to teach students the periodic table
  • Used Twilio and MongoDB to create an educational textbot

MITRE Quantum Information Science Group

Princeton, NJ
Intern (Part-time) February 2019 – June 2019
  • Studied linear algebra and quantum mechanics
  • Designed and conducted experiments to measure noise on superconducting quantum computers using Qiskit

Projects

AutoTOS

Virtual
PennApps Fall 2020 September 2020
  • Built a web application for automatically parsing and explaining terms of service
  • Awarded Best Use of Google Cloud

Speak into Space

Philadelphia, PA
PennApps Fall 2019 September 2019
  • Worked on backend and frontend for a lip-reading web application
  • Interfaced Flask application with Tensorflow model
  • Awarded Top 10 Hack

Skills and Interests

Languages OCaml, C, Haskell, Python, Standard ML, HTML/CSS/Javascript, TeX
Other Interests Technical blog (ericzheng.org/thoughts) updated monthly, road cycling