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General Information
Name | Haodi Zou |
h4zou [at] ucsd [dot] edu | |
Location | La Jolla, CA |
Education
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Sep 2024 - Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of California, San Diego -
Aug 2019 - Dec 2023 B.A. in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley - GPA - 4.0/4.0
- Honors & Awards
- Graduated with Highest Distinction
- UC Berkeley EECS Evergreen Undergraduate Research Award
- Member of UC Berkeley UPE (Computer Science Honor Society)
Research Experience
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Feb 2023 - Present Empowering Online Harm Survivors Through Structured Sensemaking
Undergraduate Student Researcher @ UC Berkeley School of Information TO3 Lab - Advised by Professors Niloufar Salehi and Coye Cheshire
- Designed and implemented SnuggleSense, a web system that guides online harm survivors through reflective questions, provides personalized suggestions from peers, and visualizes action plans using interactive sticky notes
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Sep 2023 - Apr 2024 Facilitating Health Communication with Large Language Models
Undergraduate Student Researcher @ UC Berkeley School of Information TO3 Lab - Advised by Professor Niloufar Salehi
- Designed and built SAGE (System for Accessible Guided Exploration), a web system that leverages large language models to help patients with varying health literacy levels identify and fill gaps in their understanding of healthcare information
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Feb 2023 - Dec 2023 Reducing Hallucination of Image Captioning Models
Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) - Advised by Professors Trevor Darrell, John Canny, and Joseph Gonzalez
- Enhanced the OCR recall rate of the IC3 image captioning model by 28.2%. Integrated confidence information from multiple captions into a large language model to improve caption quality.
Industry Experience
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May - Aug 2022 Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon.com, Inc.
- Developed a visual experience feature displaying entities in user queries and Alexa responses on Alexa‑enabled devices
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June - Aug 2021 Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Corporation
- Developed a text search feature in OneDrive's PDF Viewer on Android, which queries an entity search service and displays comprehensive results (including text definition, related multimedia, articles, and more)
Skills
Languages | Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, Go, RISC‑V Assembly |
Libraries & Frameworks | D3.js, Flask, Scikit‑Learn, OpenCV |
Tools & Platforms | Sketch, Figma, MAXQDA, Google Cloud Platform, Git, LaTeX |
Research Methods | Interviews, Quantitative Data Analysis, Qualitative Data Analysis, Data Visualization |