About Me
Hello everyone! My name is Eric Tong. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2022 with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. 15-259 Probability and Computing, 15-410 Operating Systems, and 15-440 Distributed Systems are some of the classes I took during my time there.
Since February 2023, I've been working as a software engineer in New York. The programming languages I'm most familiar with are OCaml and C.
Projects
Here are some of the projects I've worked on.
CMU Schedule Optimizer
A tool to help students optimize their class schedules based on course registration data and a variety of customizable user metrics. Backend written in Python and integrated with HTML/CSS frontend with Flask. Awarded Sandia National Lab's Sponsor's Choice Award.
Wikipedia Question and Answering System
A question answering system written in Python that can answer natural language factoid questions about a Wikipedia article, as well as generate coherent questions. Uses natural language processing libraries, including NLTK, CoreNLP, and spaCy.