# Vincent Zhao

> CS @ Purdue University

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vincentzhao

I'm a Computer Science Student at Purdue University. I am interested in full-stack development, robotics, computer vision, and data science.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2025 – Present
Crypto, Robinhood Chain, Robinhood Wallet
Part-Time Contractor

### Software Engineering Intern @ Robinhood
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Crypto, Robinhood Wallet

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Purdue University
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
- AIM Research Group https://ai4musicians.org/
- Developed transcription and scoring pipeline for Purdue's2025 Automatic Music Transcription Challenge
- Wrote cron jobs to pull from submission repositories onto hosted server and scp and queue slurm jobs remotely on Purdue GPU servers.
- Created SLURM job structure to take set up environment, run transcription models, score MIDI outputs of models, and clean up environment

### Software Developer @ Office of Indiana State Chemist
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
- Wrote a RESTful Python file server with hooks to convert files of irregular image types to JPG and transcribe audio. 
- Developed custom media viewer that handles audio, video, image, and documents with rotation and magnification features
- Implemented audio transcription with parallel computing through cuda to improve transcription speeds by 30 times.
- Built summarization feature for investigations using the chronology of events and case details using Meta Llama 3 model.
- Implemented forms used by over 300 inspection agents to collect data on pesticides, feeds, and other similar products.
- Redesigned barcode input to handle EAN-8, UPC-E, and EAN-13 codes rather than just UPC-A
- Created stickynotes feature with jQuery to allow users to add stickynotes on forms saving position, visibility, and permissions to database.

### Software Engineer Intern @ NEW EIC
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
- Developed JWT authentication workflow for internal training application with ExpressJS and React Native.
- Implemented multilingual support using i18next, including developing scripts to scan for and translate all text elements.
- Created frontend for screens from Figma designs with calls to MongoDB server for data to hydrate screens.

### Computer Vision Engineer @ Purdue IEEE Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) Team
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
- Worked on stereovision depth mapping of surroundings
- Accomplished MATE task for modeling underwater 3D structures using photogrametry

### Space Biology Research @ NASA GeneLab
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Through Purdue Data Mine, Corporate Partners Program
- Research on the effect of space flight microgravity on Calvin Cycle in Arabidposis Thaliana
- Used GeneLab datasets to analyze for significant differences in gene expression between control and other experiments
- Mapped pathways using Kegg to visualize over and under expression of genes
- Presented at NASA AWG Symposium and Purdue DataMine Symposium.

### Bar Associate @ 85C Bakery Cafe
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
- Spilled 3 containers of Thai Tea
- Packaged many units of bread
- Shook several drinks before they were sealed
- Yelled at by 3 angry dads

### Director of Software Engineering @ Monta Vista Robotics Team
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- Directed a team of 15 to create robot code in Java for the team’s 2022 and 2023 world championship qualifying robots
- Developed vision system for fiducial targets to localize robot relative to field
- Built mobile app and custom data visualization dashboard (React Native/React) for scouting to gain strategic advantages during competitions
- Taught 50 incoming members basic Java, JavaScript, React, and robot control theory concepts


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Purdue University

### Monta Vista High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vincent-zhao-aa3357267
- Portfolio: https://vincentzhao.fr/

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Last updated: 2026-04-11