Peter Yang

Math/CS/Stats @ University of Michigan


About Me

I am currently a senior at the University of Michigan, majoring in Honors Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science. Last Summer I did an internship at MathWorks on the Data Science Types Team. Previously, I spent my first year of my undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after which I transferred. I am a Boston native, originally from a town called Wellesley (Maybe you have heard of Wellesley College?)

Education

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    University of Michigan

    Aug 2022 - May 2025 (Expected)

    BS in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science

    GPA: 3.82

    Go Blue!

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    University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Sept 2021 - May 2022

    BS in Mathematics & Computer Science

    GPA: 3.89

    Shoutout to the UW-Madison Math Club!

Experience

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    Software Engineer Intern @ Mathworks

    May 2024 - Aug 2024

    App Designer and Infastructure Services Team

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    Data Engineer Intern @ Mathworks

    May 2023 - Aug 2023

    Data Science Types Team

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    Researcher @ MiSiL

    April 2024 - Now

    Mobile Health Research using Apple SensorKit Data

Interests

Skills

  • Languages: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL (PostGres, SQLite), R, MATLAB, HTML/CSS, LaTeX
  • Frameworks/Libraries: React.js, Node.js, Express.js, Spring Boot, Flask, Jinja2, Bootstrap, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, SciPy, Requests, BeautifulSoup, Selenium
  • Developer Tools: Git/Github, Unix/Linux, Visual Studio, VS Code, IntelliJ, Perforce, Eclipse, Jira, Confluence

Hobbies

  • Avid fan and player of the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. I mostly play Commander and Sealed formats nowadays, but I really want to get back into Standard some day!
  • Learning new languages. Fluent in English and Mandarin. I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to learn Japanese
  • History and History-adjacent things. I like 19th century and onward history, I find stuff like the proxy conflicts in the Cold War really fascinating. I have 2000+ hours on Hearts of Iron IV, a grand-strategy map game, big fan of Vexillology and the Polandball aesthethic
  • Music. Mostly a lot of Japanese music. Artists I like include Yorushika, Potsu, Shibayan Records, DBBY, Gen Hoshino, Nekomata Okayu, Akari Nanawo, as well as various volcaloid producers

Projects

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Black-Scholes Options Pricer/Tool

This Python program computes the theoretical price of an options contract using the Black-Scholes model. Used BeautifulSoup to scrape real-time risk free rates and historical volatility. Used the TDAmeritrade API to log real time bid/ask spreads and last trade price data to the terminal.

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StockXGuess

Developed a web-based game using the React.js framework, where the player guesses the price of ten random sneakers from popular brands on StockX and receives a score. Created a RESTful API in Spring Boot to read/update sneaker and user data from a postgreSQL database. Deployed locally using proxy tunneling.

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MetaNN

Developed a Long-Short Memory (LSTM) Neural Network in PyTorch for the prediction of action potentials within the squid giant axon using the time series data of the input current. Optimized with Adam and BCELoss. Achieved an overall classification accuracy of 97.16%, with precision at 98.96%, recall at 97.81%.

Contacts

yangpe@umich.edu

 

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