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General Information
| Full Name | Zhaodong Kang |
| Languages | English, Mandarin |
Education
- currently pursuing
- May 2024
B.S. in Computer Science
Georgia Insititute of Technology
- GPA: 3.96/4.0
- Major GPA: 4.0/4.0
- Awards: Faculty Honors, Dean's List
- Engagements: College of Computing Peer Mentor, HackGT Hackathon, GT Trailblazers, Chinese Student Scholar Association
- Jul 2020
Early College Scholar
Washington University in St. Louis
- Grade: A+
- Course: Design Thinking: Human-Centered Approaches to Making the World (3 credits)
- Project: Worked with a group of 3 creating a cooking system prototype for teaching beginner cooks during the pandemic
Course Wrok
- Graduate Coursework
- Introuction to Operating Systems, GPU SW and HW, Big Data Heath, Intro to Heath Informatics
- Undergraduate Coursework
- Spring 2024 - Computer Netorks I, Automata and Complexity, Intro to Information Security
- Fall 2023 - Introduction to Perception and Robotics, Statistics and Applications, Applied Combinatorics, Computing, Society, and Professionalism
- Spring 2023 - Design & Analysis-Algorithms, Objects and Design, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, General Psychology
- Fall 2022 - Intro to Database Systems, Intro to Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Systems and Networks, Intro Multivariable Calculus
- Spring 2022 - Data Structure & Algorithms, Computer Organization & Programming, Honors Discrete Math CS
- Fall 2021 - Intro to Object Orienting Programming, Linear Algebra
Experience
- 2025/12 - now
Software Development Engineer | HW/SW Co-Design Chip Validation
Annapurna Labs (AWS) | Austin, TX
- Designed and implemented robust modern C++ test benches for critical data movement architecture, validating DMA
- 2024/07 - 2025/11
Software Engineer
Bank of America | Charlotte, NC
- Optimized the FR Y-14Q Schedule L regulatory template download process, reducing execution time by 75% (~30min to 7min).
- Collaborated with Cross-Functional Team to build a Python-based Data Quality Control system in Quartz to identify counterparty financial data inconsistencies in Enterprise Stress Testing process, enabled automated reconciliation and reduced operational risk.
- Resolved user-reported issues and fixed bugs in deliverables in BAU workflow, while driving release quality by building robust Python Unit Tests (99% coverage) and executing UAT and Regression Tests for all production release for system reliability.
- 2023/06 - 2023/08
Software Engineer Intern | Summer Analyst in Global Technology
Bank of America | Charlotte, NC
- Designed and built a Python-based Workflow Orchestration Tool to automate over 20 pre-processing steps for regulatory reporting in Oracle DB, reducing manual setup time by 80% and improving overall system efficiency.
- Integrated real-time monitoring and status tracking into the internal UI framework, enhancing workflow visibility and reducing user-induced errors through automated validation checks.
- 2022/01 - 2023/05
Automatic Algorithm Design Team Member (Vertically Integrated Project)
Georgia Tech Research Institute | Atlanta, GA
- Participated in bootcamp to learn Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Machine Learning, DEAP (Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python), and EMADE (Evolutionary Multi-objective Algorithm Design Engine)
- Led a group of 4 to achieve the co-dominant solutions and find the Pareto front using different ML models, Multi-Objective Genetic Programing, and EMADE on predicting the survival on Titanic, with the Accuracy Score of 86.59% and True Positive Rate 88.03%
- Joined image processing sub-team working with 2 students to preprocess 49,466 images for testing the Evolutionary Model.
- Documented legibility, intelligible, and technical meeting notes with MediaWiki to track labs
- 2022/08 - 2023/01
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Ubicomp Health Lab @ Georgia Tech | Atlanta, GA
- Conducted research with Dr. Rosa Arriaga about Human-Computer Interaction in Ubicomp Health Lab, focusing on building the Diabetic Ulcer Computational Sensing System for diabetes patients and clinicians that is usable and useful
- Working with a group of 9 on designing and developing the system with React Native, reviewing related literatures, and participating weekly meetings
Projects
- 2025
Closed Captions Simplifier with Fine-tuned LLM
- Built and deployed an end-to-end ML system that fine-tuned LLMs via LoRA for abstractive closed caption simplification (34% length reduction, >90% retention), enhancing accessibility.
- Integrated Whisper ASR and built a real-time inference pipeline and demo app, demonstrating practical application of personalized NLP in a latency-aware setting.
- 2025
Distributed File System (Affliliate Project for CS6200)
- Designed and implemented a high-performance distributed file system with gRPC and Protocol Buffers, supporting scalable multi-client access and weak consistency.
- Built an efficient in-memory caching proxy with multi-threading and IPC primitives (semaphores, mutexes), achieving low-latency file serving under concurrent load.
- 2023
Acronym Search Engine
- Led an 8-member team to build a scalable acronym search engine with Python, SQLite, and Streamlit, covering 30,000+ acronyms, significantly reducing internal training time and cost.
- 2022
Semantic Segmentation Deep Learning (Affiliated Project for CS4476)
- Developed and implemented a deep learning model for semantic segmentation using PSPNet architecture w/ ResNet backbone.
- Optimized model through dilation and Pyramid Pooling Module (PPM), achieved a mIoU of 60.4% on the Camvid dataset
- 2022
Restaurant Supply Express (Affiliated Project for CS4400)
- Worked with a team of 4 to draw the Enhanced Entity Relationship Diagram (EERD), create the physical database schema, and implement views and stored procedures in MySQL based on the restaurant delivery scenario description and initial dataset
- Implemented the backend, including the MyBatis, POJO, and API, for a final full-fledged website applicationxw
- 2022
Facial Emotion Recognition (Affiliated Project for CS4641)
- Led a team of 5 to train & test machine learning models on human facial emotion recognition task in Python and Jupyter notebook
- Preprocessed the images with Principal component analysis (PCA) to improve algorithm efficiency and minimize information loss
- Fine-tuned and compared the result of 9 different model, including ResNet, AlexNet, Random Forest, SVM, Neural net, etc.
Honors and Awards
- 2021
- Georgia Tech's Faculty Honor (Fall 2021)
- 2020
- AP® Scholar with Distinction Award
Volunteering
- 2019 - 2021
Member
Asian Liver Center @ Stanford University
- Completed an online course about hepatitis, accomplished presentation, and recorded videos during the COVID-19 showing an overview of hepatitis B to introduce the route of transmission, the prevention methods, and elimination the discrimination to patients (Qingqing Scholarship Program)
- Selected as 1 of 100 exceptional students worldwide, attended an associated Youth Leadership Conference, worked with 9 global students to design a virtual campaign about hepatitis B, and presented ideas to experts at Stanford University
- 2022
Participant
OSPA (Overseas Students Philanthropy Actions)
- Designed a questionnaire for rural education teachers with multiple rounds of trial and revision, which was designed based on the principles of validity, simplicity, user-friendliness, science, and innovation.
- Collected over 350 sets of data through the questionnaire to lay the groundwork for the compilation of a white paper on rural education in China
- Analyzed for reliability and validity of the questionnaire to avoid inducing subjects and filtered intrusive data and outliers
Interests
- Alpine Skiing
- Archery
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Traveling