Projects
Point Set Visibility
Implemented the direct visibility of point sets algorithm in both 2D and 3D and visualized the results.
MATLAB
Pixel Art Generator
Website that allows users to upload an image and then convert it to pixel art of a desired size. Gives users the ability to create and import custom color palettes for more specific use cases.
HTML/CSS
JavaScript
Password Manager
Desktop password manager with Python using PyQt5. User passwords are encrypted with a master password. Features the ability to import/export from CSV, automatic logout after inactivity, and search by service associated with password.
Python
PyQt
Interactive Seating Chart
Worked in a team of four in UNC's Computer Science Experience Lab (CSXL) website codebase to create an interactive seating chart, and applied the newly created widget to revamp the seat reservation interface to be more user friendly for students and administrators alike.
Angular
Typescript
FastAPI
SQLAlchemy
Git
HTML/CSS
Card Shuffle
An art project reflecting on the idea of a "long period of time". A standard 52-card deck is shuffled once a second until it reaches its original configuration.
HTML/CSS
Javascript
Twitter Sentiment Analysis
Web app visualizing climate change tweet sentiment, created during the Carolina Data Challenge hackathon. I cleaned the data that my partner ran sentiment analysis on and created a web app that visualizes tweet sentiment with respect to time, current events, and the general political affiliation of the state the tweet originated in.
Python
Pandas
Matplotlib
Experience
Under Construction
About
Name:
Benjamin Zhang
Pronouns:
he/him/his
School:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Age:
21
Hometown:
Concord, NC
I am an undergraduate student in UNC's class of 2026, pursuing majors in Computer Science and Mathematics.
I have been programming both in and out of the classroom since high school, and am well versed in Java, Python, and C.
I have also had extensive experience with Javascript, HTML, CSS, and developing in Angular with Typescript.
My interests include software development and machine learning!
Outside of classes,
I am also an undergraduate teaching assistant for COMP 550 (Algorithms and Analysis) and an undergraduate research assistant
in Gedas's lab, working on multi modal large language models.
This past summer, I was a software engineer intern at Lucid Software where I worked on the search team!