Projects

Projects range from self-written coursework to AI-assisted tools and current competition research. Each page explains the problem, the choices I made, and what I learned from the result.

Kaggle Computer Vision ResearchJul 2026 - Present

Neural Debris Removal Competition

An active Kaggle computer-vision project studying how to reduce a poisoned RetinaNet detector's unwanted behavior while preserving useful detections.

PythonPyTorchTorchvisionRetinaNet
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Competition ML ResearchJul 2026 - Present

CSI 300 Portfolio Modeling Challenge

An active competition project for ranking CSI 300 candidates and assigning a five-stock portfolio with point-in-time features and walk-forward validation.

PythonPandasNumPyScikit-learn
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AI Agent PrototypeJun 2026

Local DeepSeek Coding Agent

A Python MVP for learning how coding agents work, with a CLI, tool-calling loop, workspace file tools, shell/test execution, git diff output, and safety checks.

PythonDeepSeekTyperRich
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AI-Assisted Product DemoJun 2026

Tencent AI-HR Growth Demo

An AI-assisted Tencent AI-HR demo that turns newcomer profiles into 30-60-90 day growth paths, mentor feedback, HR views, and a review-friendly walkthrough.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSS
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Kaggle Tabular MLMay 2026

F1 Pit Stop Prediction

A Kaggle tabular-ML project that predicts whether a driver will pit on the next lap, with race-aware validation and repeatable experiments.

PythonPandasLightGBMXGBoost
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Machine LearningJan - Apr 2026

Airbnb Listing Price Modeling

A notebook-based tabular modeling project for predicting New York City Airbnb listing prices.

PythonPandasScikit-learnRandom Forest
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Natural Language ProcessingJan - Apr 2026

NLP Text Analysis and Topic Modeling

A coursework-style NLP notebook project combining embeddings, similarity analysis, preprocessing, and LDA topic modeling.

PythonJupyter NotebookScikit-learnspaCy
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AI-Assisted Data ToolsAug 2025 - Jun 2026

A-Share Data Analysis Tools

Three AI-assisted Python tools for exploring A-share market data: an intraday dashboard, a broader research dashboard, and an AKShare API checker.

PythonStreamlitAKSharePlotly
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AI-Assisted Writing WorkflowMay - Jun 2026

Local Qwen Chinese Fiction Pipeline

A local Qwen writing workflow controlled by Python, built to simulate agent-like planning, memory, and continuation for fiction generation.

PythonQwenLocal LLMPrompt Workflow
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Personal WebsiteMay 2026 - Present

ZiyangZhou.me Portfolio Website

A bilingual portfolio that organizes projects, GitHub links, short write-ups, resume access, and personal background.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSApp Router
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AI-Assisted ToolingFeb - May 2026

ChatGPT API Browser Bridge

A local API/browser bridge experiment for connecting local scripts with ChatGPT web workflows and reducing repeated context entry.

ElectronNode.jsHTTP APIBrowser Automation
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Machine LearningJan - Apr 2026

Recipe Text Clustering

An unsupervised text clustering project comparing bag-of-words and sentence embeddings for recipe-name clustering.

PythonScikit-learnK-meansDBSCAN
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Machine LearningJan - Apr 2026

Adult Census Preprocessing Pipeline

A supervised learning pipeline project focused on preprocessing, leakage prevention, and baseline comparison.

PythonScikit-learnColumnTransformerPipeline
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Computer Science CourseworkMar 2025

CPSC 221 Hash Tables Lab

A C++ lab implementing separate chaining and linear probing hash tables with text-analysis exercises.

C++Hash TablesSeparate ChainingLinear Probing
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Computer Science CourseworkMar 2025

CPSC 221 AVL Trees Lab

A C++ lab implementing a self-balancing binary search tree with rotations, insertion, removal, and tests.

C++AVL TreeBinary Search TreeRotations
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Computer Science CourseworkMar 2025

CPSC 221 Heaps Lab

A C++ lab practicing array-backed heap operations, priority-queue behavior, and index arithmetic.

C++HeapsPriority QueuesHeapify
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Computer Science CourseworkMar 2025

CPSC 221 Graphs and Union-Find Lab

A C++ lab covering graph representation, graph tools, weighted edges, and disjoint-set structures.

C++GraphsGraph AlgorithmsUnion-Find
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Application DevelopmentJan - May 2024

Sleep Tracking App

A Java application for recording sleep, setting goals, and reviewing habits over time.

JavaSwingOOPJSON Persistence
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Quantitative ResearchSep 2024 - Present

China Glass Futures Quantitative Strategy

A trading-strategy research project focused on strategy logic, backtest review, drawdown, market regimes, and parameter stability.

TradingViewPine ScriptPythonPandas
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Machine LearningJan - Apr 2026

Logistic Regression Text Classification

A tweet classification project moving from a dummy baseline to bag-of-words logistic regression.

PythonScikit-learnLogistic RegressionCountVectorizer
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Machine LearningJan - Apr 2026

Spotify Decision Tree Modeling

A compact decision-tree classification exercise using Spotify-style track attributes.

PythonScikit-learnDecisionTreeClassifierCross-validation
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Computer VisionMay 2025

Handwritten Character Recognition App

A student computer-vision app that trains a compact PyTorch CNN on EMNIST and predicts characters drawn in a Pygame window.

PythonPyTorchTorchvisionCNN
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