Ivan Chau

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Hey There, I'm Ivan Chau!

I'm a senior at Columbia University majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Applied Math.

I love writing code and making ideas come to life.

Take a look around and don't hesitate to reach out!

What I've Been Working On :

GradeCheck

Created an iOS App and Genesis Gradebook API to empower students at Montgomery. Available on the App Store!
February 20, 2016

Montyhacks

A hackathon at Montgomery High School I co-founded with my friends! Reached over 600 students across the tri-state over 3 years.
June 24, 2016

Flulytics

At HackPrinceton, helped create probability distributions for mutation sites on virus genomes. Used SKLearn to predict strain severity with pandemic data. Won 2nd place!
November 8, 2019

Bloomberg

Completed Software Internships at Bloomberg, exploring areas like NLP, anamoly detection and high-volume data streaming, while learning how to write maintainable and clean code.
2018-2020

Supermaritan

A mobile application promoting communities and samaritans to aid in emergency response, in addition to location analytics. PennApps Top 30.
September 7, 2018

HomeGrown

Hardware and mobile app to promote sustainable futures by providing a list of plants to grow based on environmental factors, soil moisture, and more. Also provided recipes and tutorials for planting. HackPrinceton Most Sustiainable, Facebook Data for Social Good.
November 9, 2018

WWDC19

Received another scholarship to attend Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in 2019. Met some great developers and saw Apple's developments (SwiftUI, CoreML)
June 3, 2018

Innata

A financial receipt-tracking information using iOS OCR Frameworks and Google Cloud Platform's image recognition. Received Honorable Mention at PennApps XV.
January 26, 2017

WWDC 2017

Received a scholarship to attend Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in 2017.
April 2, 2017

TabWatch

A chrome extension written at MHacks Nano (Top 12 Prize), allowing users to visualize, control, and be notified about their usage on the web. Worked on this project with Brendon Ho.
July 9, 2017

CalARie

An AR Application to act as a medium of knowledge between you and your food, using Google Vision APIs and the USDA Government API.
September 24, 2017

MobilePassport

A platform utilizing PassportJS, NodeJS, and MongoDB to create an efficient way to register and store users. I worked on this project with my good friend Peter Soboyejo.
January 15, 2016

Twitter-Stats

An application I created at my first hackathon, HackBCA. The website used Twitter's API to collect statistics about your tweeting habits and top tweets.
April 2, 2016

Goalr

A MongoDB project used to keep track of goals, using push notifications through both a website and mobile application. I created this project with help from Brendon Ho.
October 4, 2015

Soundmeow

This website allowed users to search for music in a Google-esque interface, supplemented by images and gifs from the Giphy and Google Search APIs, while playing music from the Soundcloud API.
October 2, 2015