Kelly Hwang

Education

Skills

Languages and Frameworks: Java, C, C++, Python, R, Javascript, Arduino, HTML/CSS

Toolsets/OS: MacOS, iOS, Ubuntu, Unix, Linux, Git/GitHub, SQL, DKAN

Professional Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant as a Undergraduate Junior
• Assist UHERO Faculty and Staff on various projects including empirical modeling and forecasting of Hawai‘i’s economy and other applied research
• Draft and edit reports; provide support to development of data visualizations, blogs, and reports

• Providing computer science and information technology support across various research opportunities and data portals
• Applying data science algorithms to work with data and applying prepackaged software stacks to relevant project tasks
• Technologies used: Linux environment, Ansible, Docker, DKAN, SQL, Node

• Analyzed and processed data for unsteady pressure sensitive paint (uPSP) project by cross-correlating kulite microphone and uPSP data for a new wind tunnel pressure measurement system, and additional statistical research
• Produced multiple PSDs using Python scripts to show cross-correlation, time lag, and decay at sampled frequencies
• Technologies used: Python, Linux environment, data visualization, script automation

Professional Activities

• Collaborated within a diverse college student-run chartered student organization, significantly contributed to the group’s organization via budget strategies, administrative functions, and all key functions of student activities management
• Launched multiple campus-wide events, hosted a variety of online events, created various posters and videos, executed Instagram and Youtube video campaigns in collaboration with campus departments, all with COVID-19 restrictions

• Utilized local hospitality network to bolster engagement and drive business by organizing public and private events
• Founded and nurtured a platform of Hong Kong expatriates by curating relevant content to assist with the organic audience growth on social media, namely Facebook and Instagram, leading to a 10x growth in engagement and followers

• Vice President of Communications, SWITCH (Supporting Women in Information Technology & Computing in Hawai'i), 2021-Present
• Student Chapter Member, ACM@MANOA (Association for Computing Machinery), 2021-Present
• Student Representative, PAU (Prevention, Awareness & Understanding) Violence Coalition at Kapi'olani Community College, 2020-Present

Projects

• Placed 2nd overall out of 44 teams
• Created a web application for HACC 2021's Hawai'i Marine Animal Response (HMAR), NIC Hawaii. This sighting and reporting app is to help streamline the process for the public to report monk seals, turtles, and seabirds, to be on a 24/7 web app instead of by call logs
• Technologies used: Meteor, MongoDB, React, Semantic UI, Javascript, HTML/CSS

Electrical Team Member, Grant Recipient

• Designed a launchable canister satellite and ejectable autorotating maple seed projectiles according to set objectives
• Developed the electrical engineering team’s sensor, communication & data handling, electrical power, flight software, and ground control station subsystems for final competition review
• Technologies used: Arudino, MQTT, Visual Studio

• Accepted into virtual NASA experience for July 2021 by engaging in self-paced modules about NASA missions, aeronautics, and in-situ resource utilization capabilities
• Competed in an interactive team competition to plan a lunar mission and placed second
• Selected to be the budget officer and mission schedule analyst, assisted in producing daily deliverables during the two weeks

H4R organized by the UH Office of Innovation and Commercialization

• Engaged in an intensive 5-day bootcamp in diversifying Hawai’i's economy after COVID-19 through lean startup method
• Implemented entrepreneurial strategies to create a social media platform to connect clients with their audience

Scholarship Recipient

• Created personal project in sustainability, 'Using LEDs for Visible Spectrum Color Therapy Along a Temporal Axis'
• Arduino microcontrollers to write code to visually represent time changing every day in an LED panel

Awards and Honors

ASUH Scholarship for Academic Achievement, Associated Students of the University of Hawai'i, 2021

Scholarships awarded to University of Hawai'i at Manoa students, the academic achievement category requiring a 3.5 or higher cumulative GPA.

Hawai'i Economic Association Scholarship Award, Hawai'i Economic Association, 2021

Scholarships awarded to Hawai'i students pursuing a degree in economics.

Indigenous Knowledge in Engineering, Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative II, National Science Foundation, 2020

Scholarships awarded to community college STEM minorities students interested in engineering.

Interests

Data Science , Machine Learning , Quantitative Finance

References

Available upon request