Daniel Chen

About Me

I'm a junior Computer Science and Economics double major at the University of Maryland, College Park. Go Terps!

I'm currently enrolled in the Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students (ACES) honors program. It's the first 4 year undergraduate cybersecurity program in the nation!

I'm a huge tennis geek! Chances are you'll be able to find me hitting on the courts with UMD's awesome club tennis team.

Want to know more? Check out my resume

Projects


Goomba Squasher VR

Bitcamp 2015
Winner: 1st Prize Microsoft Product Hack

Goomba Squasher VR is a virtual reality Mario game built by integrating the Microsoft Kinect, Oculus Rift, and Unity game engine. The Kinect detects body movements which are translated into in-game actions for an immersive virtual reality experience


Clusterfy

PennApps Winter 2015
Winner: Best Use of Spotify/Echo Nest APIs

Clusterfy extracts songs from a user’s Spotify playlists and performs k-means clustering to group them based on fundamental features such as key signature and tempo. It recommends a playlist for each cluster and allows the user to insert it into their Spotify account


MyOwn Drums

An Android app that interfaces with the Thalmic Myo to simulate a virtual drumset. Created at YHack


Tennis Predictor

A web app that uses machine learning techniques to predict the outcome of tennis matches. Built with Python's scikit-learn library and Flask

Experience

  • Nov 2013 - Feb 2015

    UMD CATTLab
    Software Engineering Intern

    Worked on backend of RITIS Filter Web Service which allows users to perform transportation related queries

  • Jun 2014 - May 2015

    Maryland Cybersecurity Center
    Research Intern

    Wrote R script that uses machine learning techniques to detect cyber attacks in web server log files

    Recommendation Letter

  • Summer 2015

    Google
    Software Engineering Intern

    Worked on the backend of the Device Assist mobile app, which has a 4.2 rating on the Google Play Store with 100k-500k installs

  • Summer 2016

    Facebook
    Software Engineering Intern

    I'll be working at Facebook's Menlo Park office!