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About Me

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Hi!
My name is Bosung Hwang.
I love playing sports and working out.

Education

University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts in Data Science, Junior
Cumulative GPA: 3.71/4.00

Relavant Coursework

Computer Science & Engineering
CS61A: Program structures
CS61B: Data structures
CS61C: Computer Architecture
CS170: Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems
EECS127: Optimization Models in Engineering
Math110: Linear Algebra

Machine Learning & AI
CS189: Introduction to Machine Learning
Info159: Natural Language Processing

Data Science & Engineering
Data100: Principles & Techniques of Data Science
Data101: Data Engineering
Data140: Probability of Data Science

My Works

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SnackHub

Naver D2 Startup Factory First Round: Gamified Food Ordering App
- Led a team of 3 developing a mobile app that integrated gamification into the food ordering experience
- Designed and implemented key app features such as a reward-based ordering system, interactive UI, and gamified restaurant recommendations
- Built REST APIs with Express.js on Google App Engine to handle user data, order flows, and real-time engagement tracking
- Collaborated with a local restaurant to pilot the app, gathering real-world feedback and iterating on the design to improve user experience by 60%

ReactNative
Express.js
Google App Engine

Wikipedia Talk-Page Comment Classification

- Built an end-to-end NLP pipeline to classify Wikipedia talk-page comments into three tiers of editorial feedback - minor edits, moderate suggestions, and major disputes
- DFine-tuned a BERT model using PyTorch to achieve 87% test accuracy, outperforming baselines by 22%

PyTorch
NLTK
scikit-learn
NumPy

Yelp Data Analysis

- Analyzed real-world Yelp data to explore business attributes, user behavior, and review patterns
- Developed queries in PyMongo to filter businesses, aggregate reviews, and extract nested fields from JSON-like documents

MongoDB
PyMongo

Boba Time

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Boba Time is an iOS application developed using Swift and SwiftUI/UX. The app features an engaging series of quizzes that utilize a custom algorithm to recommend a personalized boba drink. Users can save their favorite boba selections to a remote database powered by Firebase. The application was recognized as the winner of the UC Berkeley App Competition.

Swift
SwiftUI/UX
FireBase

Ehyun Elementary School English Musical Website

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Ehyun Elementary School's English Musical Club is a state funded club that has 50+ members every semester. I created their official website using various tools and libaries.

Website
HTML/CSS
Javascript
React

Experience

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Research Assistant - Full Stack Development

UC Berkeley Sky Computing, CA
- Contributed to the development of Chatbot Arena through backend optimizations and improvements of UI/UX
- Supported the Arena-Hard benchmarking pipeline by connecting backend LLM evaluations with frontend components for real-time comparisons
- Developed data collection APIs and integrated user interaction metrics into a live benchmarking dashboard using Next.js

Next.js
Postgres
Tailwind
ShadCN

Software Engineering Intern

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Karrot - Search & Discovery Team, South Korea
- Extended SQL-backed API endpoints to retrieve user interaction data for search and filter features
- Analyzed 1M+ activity logs using Python to identify behavior patterns supporting user preference modeling
- Contributed to frontend layout fixes and styling adjustments for the new Karrot homepage prototype

Python
SQL
React
Node.js

Data Science Internship

San Diego County Taxpayers Association
- Automated extraction of public expenditure data from government websites, reducing effort
- Created reports for data-driven policy recommendations on housing, taxation, and budget allocation

Requests
BeautifulSoup
Pandas
Seaborn

Undergraduate Course Staff/Tutor

Principles & Techniques of Data Science (Data 100), UC Berkeley,CA
- Led weekly discussion sections with 30+ students and held office hours and group tutoring sessions

Contact Me

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Thanks for stopping by!

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