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Howdy!

My name is Yicheng Ding, I usually go by "Tiger", my nickname.

Contact

Personal Email: [email protected]

Education

University of California, Irvine, United States (UCI) Link

• Currently a candidate for a bachelor degree in Computer Science, expect to graduate in 2025.

• Relevant Coursework

  • Algorithms
  • General Computer Science
  • Intermediate Programming
  • Systems and Software
  • Internet Architecture

Milliken Mills High School, Markham, Canada (MMHS) Link

• General high school diploma, graduated in 2021.

Shanghai United International School, Shanghai, China (SUIS) Link

• General middle school diploma, graduated in 2017.

Experience

UCIrvine, Department of Computer Sciences Link

ICS Lab Tutor | 2022 - 2023

• Managed and controlled a lab session with a scale of 20 people with the course TA. The main goal is to guide students on programming and answer course relevant questions.
• Use weekly journals to report on the overall situation of the session, and will complete a project at the end of the quarter that can help improve the session.

Mon Sheong Foundation Chinese School, Canada Link

Teaching Assistant | 2020 - 2021

• Participate in class on a scale of 30 as a homework grader and a lecture helper.
• Assist native English-speaking students in Chinese writing and speaking during lectures.

Research

The Ding Lab, UCI Link

Magnetic Tweezer Data Visualization Software | 2023 - now GitHub

• Visualize data from the format of .gr file
• Written in Python, still under development

Leadership

VEX Robotics World Championship Link

Team Leader | 2015 - 2016

• At the VEX Robotics World Finals in Kentucky, USA, our team ranked in the top 50 out of nearly 800 different teams from all over the world.
• Our team's robots were ranked the top 50 among 850+ participants and gain the Best Design Award of the year.

T&M Game Design Studio

Founder & President | 2016 - Now

• A game design club of six people in total, all members are in the same high school.
• Originally designed a game server running on the cloud, with peak online players reaching 40, and the total number of players is about 300.
• Take responsibility in player management and plugin development.
• Maintain server, choose hosting DC, network and hardware; Improve gaming environment.

MMHS Film Club

Founder & Vice President | 2017 - 2021

• Supervise and direct shooting squad.
• Assist camera team and coordinate cooperations within club.
• Completed five themed videos like anti- discrimination.

MMHS Robotic Club

Website Designer & Robot Builder | 2019 - 2020

• Apply structural knowledge to design robots.
• Use WIX to complete web design,
• Represent Milliken Mills High School to participate in robot competitions.

Projects

"Yatoo" Cryptographic Generator

Open-source project | 2022 | GitHub

• A multifunctional app with GUI, including a random password generator, hash generator, Morse/Caesar/Rail Fence/Unix-to-Unix encoder and decoder, Ascii/Hex convertor, Ascii/Binary convertor, etc..

"Tiger's Works" Personal Website

General project | 2021 - 2022 | Link

• A website that runs on a cloud server and records my computer science study notes in both Simplified Chinese and English.

"Mapiot" Minecraft API Organization Tool

Open-source project | 2022 | GitHub

"Swmac" Server Whitelist to Minecraft Avatars Converter

Open-source project | 2022 | GitHub

Skills

Speaking Languages

• University level English
• Native Simplified Chinese
• Native Shanghainese

Programming Languages

• Python
• HTML/CSS
• PHP
• C++
• SQL

Software

• Medias

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe illustrator
  • Adobe Lightroom Classic
  • Final Cut Pro X

• Systems

  • macOS
  • Microsoft Windows 10/11
  • CentOS 7/8

• IDEs

  • Visual Studio Code
  • PyCharm
  • Vim