Hi!
My name is Bosung Hwang.
I love playing sports and working out.
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts in Data Science, Junior
Cumulative GPA: 3.71/4.00
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
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%
- 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%
- 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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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