Jay Zheng
Brooklyn, NY
he/him
Education
Cornell University
Exp: Winter 2026
- B.S. in Statistics (ML concentration)
- Minor in Computer Science
- GPA: 3.9
Cornell Tech
Exp: Summer 2025
- Machine Learning Certificate
- Grade: 99%
Experience
Corporal-Reservist
@ U.S. Marine CorpsJan 2022 - Present
- Coordinate training and readiness as a NCO while concurrently pursuing academic full time
- Developed strong leadership and time management skills transferable to project-driven tech environments
iOS Course Instructor (CS 1998)
@ Cornell CISFall 2025
- Former TA and course instructor for iOS Development course (CS 1998-601) with combined 100+ students
- Revamped course structure for make content more beginner friendly
iOS Developer
@ Cornell AppDevFeb 2025 - Present
- Architecturing and building new app "Hustle" in Swift and TCA Architecture
- Implemented authentication using Firebase Auth and Google signin
- Collobrate with backend devs and designers on "Score", an ESPN like app for Cornell Sports
- Designed and implemented UI components such as refresh control, loading cards, and filtering using SwiftUI.
Research Assistant
@ Cornell ARLSep 2024 - Sep 2025
- Developed mirror control algorithm to maintain robot-user and user-user visibility
- Integrated alogorithm to robot prototype using Arduino and ROS, debugged all integration failures
- Designed user studies and finite-state system to coordinate perception and actuation logic for autonomous robot behavior
Projects
ReadLay
/ iOS AppFall 2024
- Front-end developer for full stack application for trading used books
- Most creative award in hackathon.
Rock-Paper-Scissor Predictor
/ Image winner predictionSpring 2025
- Designed a Siamese Neural Network with ResNet, to classify winner in a rock paper scissor game, with less than 10% error rate.
Study Spot
/ Web AppSummer 2025
- Built a productivity hub combining Pomodoro timer, to-do list, and adaptive music player
GPT Inside-out
/ NLP Research ProjectFall 2023
- Learned the Transformer Architecture during this project
- Reconstructed and trained a simplified Transformer-based text generation model to study context window effects and sequence coherence.
Skills
- Python, PyTorch, Git, Version Control (branching, rebasing, etc.), Swift, iOS App Development, Java, C++, R
Coursework
- Machine Learning, Object Oriented Programming, Data Structure & Algorithms, Computer Systems & Architecture
- Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Linear Models, Probabilty Theory