Berkeley, California

Hello! I'm
Nicole.

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science + Bioengineering UC Berkeley
— currently

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Currently

Teaching full-stack development @ UC Berkeley
Director @ Cal Hacks (world's largest collegiate hackathon)
Open to internship roles for Summer 2026
React·TypeScript·Python·Next.js·GraphQL·AWS·PyTorch·Node.js·PostgreSQL·Docker·Neo4j·FastAPI·React·TypeScript·Python·Next.js·GraphQL·AWS·PyTorch·Node.js·PostgreSQL·Docker·Neo4j·FastAPI·

Experience

Aug – Dec '25
Forward Deployed Engineer
Wedge (YC S25)
Forward deployed engineering consultant building a clinician dashboard for LA General Medical Center.
Jun – Aug '25
Software Engineer Intern
Anchor Logics (Backed by Berkeley Skydeck)
Built an end-to-end (0→1) telemetry platform, Propriologics, (Next.js, TypeScript, Node/Express, AWS S3) to stream and visualize 3D kinematic motion data from IoT sensor vests, supporting 50+ patients (ALS, Parkinson’s) with personalized vest. weight adjustments to improve movement stability.
Built video motion analysis pipeline (OpenPose, YOLOv12, DeepSORT, OpenCV), reduced clinical review time by 80%.
Engineered high-throughput caching and storage layer using AWS S3, Redis, and PostgreSQL to manage 1,000+ CV models and clinical datasets, reducing data load latency by 60%.
Implemented end-to-end Stripe checkout flows and integrated AWS S3 for secure and automated digital product delivery, enhancing payment processing efficiency.
Apr – Jun '25
Software Engineer Intern
Digpath.ai (Backed by Berkeley Skydeck)
Developed serverless analytics dashboard using AWS Amplify, Lambda, and DynamoDB to track pathology image ingestion, storage usage, and case volume across large medical imaging pipelines.
Built SageMaker-based cell segmentation tool using Meta SAM model, automating pathology annotation & analysis.
Optimized React frontend through code splitting, lazy loading, and render profiling — reducing page load time by 20% and improving responsiveness across medical imaging workflows.
Aug '24 - PRESENT
Director
Cal Hacks
Organizing the world's biggest collegiate hackathon is equal parts exhilarating and chaos. 4,000 hackers, 36 hours, zero sleep.
Engineered an end-to-end sponsorship pipeline reaching 2,000+ companies (14,000+ contacts), directly contributing to USD$900,000+ in sponsorship revenue.
Nov '25 - PRESENT
Teaching Assistant
UC Berkeley · Full Stack Development
Lead lectures, curriculum delivery, and office hours for 100+ students per semester across frontend (React, Next.js, UI/UX), backend (Node.js, Express, Flask, Django, REST APIs, authentication), databases (MongoDB, SQL, ORMs, Firebase), and DevOps.

Research

Aug '24 – Feb '25
ML Researcher
University of California, San Francisco
RAG pipeline over 2,000+ neurodegenerative disease papers using FAISS, LangChain, and Gradio.
Aug '23 – Sep '24
Researcher
University of Hong Kong
R-based COVID-19 mobility/admissions correlation tool over 20K+ data points. Computational CRISPR/Nanopore sequencing analysis.

Selected Projects

Synapse AI

HackMIT 2025

Github

→ Built an NLP pipeline parsing PDFs into structured knowledge graphs, extracting 200+ concept nodes and typed relationships per document into a Neo4j graph database.

→ Engineered a React + D3.js frontend rendering 8 synchronized visualization modes (force-directed graph, kanban, timeline, mind map, etc.) with real-time bidirectional edits across all views.

→ Integrated SM-2 spaced repetition scheduling with LLM-generated flashcards and cloze deletions via Anthropic API, and Exa.ai for semantic web search enrichment.

Python · TypeScript · React · Neo4j · Anthropic API · spaCy · D3.js

ASL Live Translator

TreeHacks 2025

Real-time ASL letter recognition converting sign language to speech and live captions for nonverbal users.

Python · React · OpenCV · MediaPipe · TensorFlow.js

Insurmate

Bolt Hacks 2025

AI insurance agent — document parsing, policy comparison, and natural language Q&A over coverage details.

React · TensorFlow.js · LangChain

Education

UC Berkeley
B.S. EECS + B.S. Bioengineering
Expected May 2027
Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme Scholar
USD$154,000 award

Skills

Java · Python · Go · C/C++ · TypeScript · SQL
React · Next.js · Node · Express · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Docker
AWS · Docker · PyTorch · TensorFlow · OpenCV