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Computer Science Student

Hi there, I'm Jimmy

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About Me

Hailing from Flushing, New York, I am a junior at Columbia University in the City of New York studying computer science. For the last four years, I have been working as a research assistant in Professor Kuan-lin Huang's Computational Omics Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, spearheading machine learning studies on COVID-19 and Alzheimer's disease. During my freshman year, I had the opportunity to conduct an epidemiological research study with Dr. Daniel Freedberg as a DSI Scholar, identifying which antibiotic classes confer the greatest risk of community-acquired C. difficile infection. In the past, I have also dabbled quite a bit in teaching, working as a teacher, tutor, and swimming instructor throughout high school. In many ways, I would say that teaching is one of my hidden passions, and honestly, I would rather have some meaningful human-to-human interaction than alone time with my MacBook any day of the week.


What started out as a reluctant acknowledgment that taking a computer science class might be useful for my future turned out to be a defining career choice at the intersection of computer science, data science, and healthcare. Since my early days of playing around with R and Python on independent research projects, I have since come to love computer technology and its vast applications in medicine and healthcare. During the summer of my freshman year, I joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as a software engineering intern, working on a number of exciting software projects, including a CLI tool for MSK developers and a clinican-facing Connected Care Dashboard application, for which I worked primarily on the frontend, unit tests, and automation tests. Last summer, I worked as a software engineering intern at Microsoft + Nuance, building iOS apps that make use of the ambient note-taking capabilities of Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) technology, with the intent of reducing clincal burden. Moving forward, I hope to continue using software to bridge gaps in healthcare and bring people together.


In my free time, I enjoy playing basketball and volleyball, solving chess puzzles, and compiling the greatest sad pop playlists you will ever find on Spotify. Anyways, that's just a little bit about me. I hope you enjoy exploring the rest of my website!


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Projects

Visualization of single-tree XGBoost model
Visualization of single-tree XGBoost model
Visualization of single-tree XGBoost model
Visualization of single-tree XGBoost model
Visualization of single-tree XGBoost model
Visualization of single-tree XGBoost model
Visualization of single-tree XGBoost model

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Jimmy Zhang


I am currently a full-time student, but I can almost always find time for some awesome research and software projects.


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