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Calvin Laughlin


HELLO! MY NAME IS CALVIN LAUGHLIN.


I'M FROM LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, AND I LIKE TO MAKE THINGS FOR PEOPLE USING A
COMPUTER. I HOLD A BACHELOR'S IN COMPUTER SCIENCE FROM STANFORD UNIVERSITY, AND
I'M CURRENTLY GETTING MY MASTER'S (ALSO) IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.


THROUGHOUT MY JOURNEY IN THE FIELD, I'VE MADE A LOT OF THINGS, SUCH AS A MACHINE
LEARNING MODEL THAT PREDICTS SURF, A MUSIC VIDEO GENERATOR (SEEN ABOVE), AND A
STANFORD PARODY VIDEO GAME.

Experience




FULL STACK SOFTWARE ENGINEER INTERN


LED A TEAM TO DEVELOP A GOAL-ACHIEVEMENT WEB APP FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS WITH ADHD,
INTEGRATING LLMS LIKE LLAMA, MISTRAL, AND GPT FOR AI FUNCTIONALITIES. BUILT THE
MVP WITH JAVASCRIPT, HTML, AND CSS, FEATURING USER LOGIN, FILE UPLOAD WITH LLM
SUMMARIZATION, GOOGLE CALENDAR INTEGRATION, AND AN AI CHATBOT. THE PROTOTYPE IS
CURRENTLY BEING TESTED BY 10 STUDENTS.




SECTION LEADER, CS106A


GUIDED 12 STUDENTS WEEKLY THROUGH STANFORD'S CS106A COURSE, CLARIFYING COMPLEX
CONCEPTS AND REINFORCING KEY MATERIALS. EVALUATED 336 ASSIGNMENTS AND OVER 600
EXAM QUESTIONS, CONDUCTED 24 HOURS OF INTERACTIVE GRADING SESSIONS, RESULTING IN
AN A AVERAGE STUDENT GRADE. EARNED AN OUTSTANDING RATING OF 4.84 OUT OF 5,
REFLECTING EXCEPTIONAL TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS AND A PROFOUND IMPACT ON STUDENT
LEARNING.

My Resume

Projects




LARGE LANGUAGE LEGO MODELS


FINE-TUNED LLAMA-2-7B, MISTRAL-7B, AND GPT-3.5-TURBO ON TEXT-BASED LEGO
INSTRUCTIONS WITH THE GOAL OF GENERATING NOVEL INSTRUCTIONS. CLEANED DATA FROM
BRICKS FOR THE BLIND USING PYTHON, AND TRANSLATED VISUAL INSTRUCTIONS TO TEXT
USING GPT-4O VISION.


MUSIC2DANCE


DEVELOPED A FEATURE-BASED AUDIO MOSAIC TOOL THAT ALIGNS MUSIC SPECTRUMS WITH
ICONIC DANCE VIDEO CLIPS USING K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS (KNN) FOR A COHERENT
AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE. AUDIO PROGRAMMED WITH CHUCK AND VISUALS CONNECTED USING
OPEN SOUND CONTROL (OSC).


OPEN-SURFLINE


PREDICTED WAVE HEIGHTS IN MONTEREY BAY FROM TIME SERIES DATA USING A VARIETY OF
METHODS SUCH AS LINEAR REGRESSION, XGBOOST, MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRON, AND LONG
SHORT-TERM MEMORY (LSTM). CLEANED DATA FROM THE NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTER AND
USED PYTHON AND PYTORCH TO MAKE PREDICTIONS.


HACK OS


TERMINAL-BASED PUZZLE STORY GAME THAT LETS PLAYERS FEEL LIKE THEY'RE HACKING
WITHOUT KNOWING HOW TO HACK. CODED IN PYTHON WITH THE CURSES LIBRARY FOR CS247G:
DESIGN FOR PLAY.


QUAD CONTEST


TOP-DOWN 2D ROGUELIKE THAT TAKES PLACE IN STANFORD MAIN QUAD. BUILT IN UNITY AND
CODED IN C# FOR INDEPENDENT STUDY DIRECTED BY JAY BORENSTEIN. DEFEND YOURSELF
AGAINST WAVES OF BEARS AS THEY INVADE STANFORD!


WEKINATORS


THROWING MY COMPUTER UP IN THE AIR LIKE A CHILD, CONTROLLING MUSIC TEMPO USING
WIKIPEDIA TABS, AND PLAYING MINECRAFT WITH MY FACE AND MY VOICE.


CAL-TRAIN


ORIGINAL PERSONAL WEBSITE THAT SIMULATES WAITING FOR THE CALTRAIN AT THE PALO
ALTO STATION. WALK OVER TO THE TICKET MACHINE AND PRESS SPACE FOR A SURPRISE.
BUILT WITH JAVASCRIPT AND HTML, OPTIMIZED FOR DESKTOP.


BEAT-BOXING IMITATION GAME


NOT THE KIND WHERE YOU TRY TO DISTINGUISH HUMAN FROM MACHINE, BUT INSTEAD KIND
WHERE YOU TRY TO FIGHT FOR YOUR HUMANITY BY REPLICATING THE COMMANDS GIVEN TO
YOU BY THE COMPUTER.


SONIC POETRY


EXPERIMENTAL TERMINAL POETRY USING THE AUDIO PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE CHUCK AND CHAI
(CHUCK FOR AI), WITH THE AI BEING UTILIZED THROUGH WORD2VEC TO CREATE
MACHINE-GENERATED WORDS WITHIN THE POEMS.