About me

Hello! My name is Tom Tang / “Yize Tang”. I am a senior B.S. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering in Carnegie Mellon University.

Experience

• Teaching Assistant for 18220
  Spring 2022 - Fall 2023
  • Electronic Devices and Analog Circuits
  • Lab sessions
  • Grading exams

• Software Intern at NVIDIA
  Summer 2022
  • Display driver team
  • Worked on a Python automatic bug triaging tool driven by CLIPS rule engine
  • Created a C++ source code simulation tool
    • Visual Studio Code extension to run simulation on any code snippet
    • Automatic context input through connectors

• Programming Contests
  • Google Code Jam 2022 Round 3 510th
  • ACM-ICPC East Central North America Regional Contest 2021 9th Place (Team CMU9)
  • Google Code Jam 2020 Round 3 371st

Projects

• Very Slow Computer
  January 2022
  • A “register machine” built with NAND gates

• Tensor Native Processor
  December 2022
  • Website

• Project Candela
  September 2022
  • A information/discussion board for all courses at CMU
  • Witten in Golang
  • Website

• Project RG526
  January 2022
  • 3D music game written in C and OpenGL ES 3.0 API
  • Next generation user experience using 5 physical buttons (with arcade style user interaction) and haptic feedback (using vibrating motors driven by MOSFETs)
  • Runs on Raspberry Pi 4 and its Broadcom GPU
  • Programmable “note” files to define the “blocks” in the game
  • 3D lighting effects

• Robotic Arm Object Pickup
  July 2021
  • Robotic arm (dobot) automatic object detection and pickup
  • Written in C/C++ and OpenCV API
  • Control Dobot with Dobot serial protocol

• Project Radiation
  July 2021
  • Miniflux command-line client in Go
  • Used for reading news directly from terminal

• Project Railway
  June 2021
  • Gtk+3 MP3 music player in C
  • Simplistic user interface (album grid, song list in side panel, play controls in bottom)
  • mpg123 as acutal playing backend
  • Gstreamer to get music file information

• Project Ran
  May 2021
  • STG game in Javascript and HTML5 Canvas
  • Inspired by Touhou Project
  • Run game directly inside browser

• Home Security
  January 2021
  • Security camera using a webcam and a RTSP camera (running yi-hack) using motion
  • Running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+
  • Access anywhere in the world using Cloudflare, Apache reverse proxy and frp reverse proxy
  • Runs a proxy on the same VPS to remotely access home network for maintenance

• Highschool Tutor Internet Category
  August 2020
  • Tutor advertising platform for my classmates
  • Powered by PHP, MySQL, Bootstrap
  • Support tutor listing/filtering, and a tutor account system to edit their profile

• Visual Assistive System
  August 2021
  • Wearable system to assist visually impaired people
  • Webcam on a hat, 3 ultrasonic sensor (SR-04) and one LiDAR sensor (TFMini) (attached to a servo motor) on a plastic belt (along with Arduinos), mobile phone (for GPS signal) and a backpack containing NVIDIA Jetson TX2 (for central control/processing)
  • Sockets for inter-module communication
  • Audio messages as output (using TTS API)
  • Supports:
    • Traffic light detection (using YOLO to find traffic lights and OpenCV API to extract color (red/green))
    • Obstacle warning (ultrasonic distance)
    • Staircase warning (increasing/decreasing height from LiDAR)
    • Nearby building/road notification (GPS position)

• Automatic Dormitory Matching
  August 2018
  • Match students with similar hobbies into dorm rooms
  • Similar to CMU’s dorm matching system
  • Using maximum flow algorithm to achive the best match
  • Powered by PHP, Bootstrap