Sarah Zhang

Software Engineer – Autonomy and Navigation at MIT Arcturus
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, US
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Chinese Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Spanish Elementary proficiency

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Credentials

  • Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED
    American Red Cross
    Jul, 2021
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • MIT Arcturus
    • United States
    • Automation Machinery Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Engineer – Autonomy and Navigation
      • Jan 2023 - Present

      Overhauling the navigation software stack to enable full autonomy for a roboboat to navigate dynamic environments. Implementing SLAM and path planning algorithms. Overhauling the navigation software stack to enable full autonomy for a roboboat to navigate dynamic environments. Implementing SLAM and path planning algorithms.

  • mi|im
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Engineer Intern
      • Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

      Worked on a number of projects spanning developing and evaluating machine learning models for automating challenging multimodal tasks, to applying image processing techniques to extract information, to data analysis to understand customer behavior. Designed, wrote code for, and deployed to production a feature that significantly reduced workload volume for a set of manual tasks. Worked on a number of projects spanning developing and evaluating machine learning models for automating challenging multimodal tasks, to applying image processing techniques to extract information, to data analysis to understand customer behavior. Designed, wrote code for, and deployed to production a feature that significantly reduced workload volume for a set of manual tasks.

  • MIT Resilient Infrastructure Networks Lab
    • Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
    • Undergraduate Student Researcher - Econometric Analysis of Deforestation in Indonesia
      • May 2022 - May 2023

      Applying a novel game-theory model using data on land features and deforestation to understand illegal logging behavior and indicators in Indonesia - Presented research poster at MIT SERC Symposium 2023 - Wrote code in Python to perform geospatial data analysis and visualization for finding the highest-correlated variables - Applied regression models and statistical analysis to identify top deforestation indicators & interpret network effects Supervised by Prof. Saurabh Amin Applying a novel game-theory model using data on land features and deforestation to understand illegal logging behavior and indicators in Indonesia - Presented research poster at MIT SERC Symposium 2023 - Wrote code in Python to perform geospatial data analysis and visualization for finding the highest-correlated variables - Applied regression models and statistical analysis to identify top deforestation indicators & interpret network effects Supervised by Prof. Saurabh Amin

  • MIT EECS
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Undergraduate Student Researcher - Learning to Learn Courses
      • Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

      Analyzing Large Language Model Performance on University Coursework - Published as 1st or 2nd author in PNAS (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2123433119), EAAI-23 conference (https://pages.mtu.edu/~lebrown/eaai/eaai/schedule-23.html#sunday-february-12-2023), arxiv.org/abs/2206.05442 - Using OpenAI’s API to test Codex and GPT3 models on question prompts, achieving an increase in accuracy from 8.8 to 81.1% on benchmark topics and the ability to solve exams automatically at a human level - Converted thousands of questions from 30+ courses from CSVs to JSONs for integration into software pipeline - Organized GitHub repos with all research data and code for reproducibility and open use - Led team of 10 undergrad/grad students from MIT, Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell to coordinate & complete projects Supervised by Prof. Iddo Drori Show less

  • MIT Code for Good
    • Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
    • Technical Consultant for Casa Myrna
      • Feb 2022 - May 2022

      Member of consulting team for Boston's largest provider of shelter & supportive services to domestic violence survivors, working on reorganizing database through building an internal application for employees to process financial support requests. - Building an app using MS PowerApps and Excel to digitize the intake and processing of payment requests and approval forms such that the staff members and financial teams have a user-friendly dashboard and interface to use, as well as providing functionality to auto-generate contribution breakdown reports for donors using MS PowerApps, Excel Show less

  • Little Black Library
    • Libraries
    • Communications Team Intern
      • Aug 2020 - Jan 2022

      Designed social media posts & strategies to highlight organization initiatives and literature on race, identity, and systemic racism. Increased followership by over 1000%. Executed full website redesign and am worked on SEO and library outreach. Designed social media posts & strategies to highlight organization initiatives and literature on race, identity, and systemic racism. Increased followership by over 1000%. Executed full website redesign and am worked on SEO and library outreach.

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    B.S., Mathematics and Computer Science
    2021 - 2025
  • University of Minnesota
    UMTYMP and PSEO alum, 3.99
    2016 - 2021
  • Woodbury Senior High School
    Summa Cum Laude with Distinction, 4.0 UW/4.5 weighted
    2017 - 2021
  • Yale University
    Yale Summer Program in Astrophysics
    2020 - 2020

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