My name is Samuel Zheng, and I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo.
I'm an enthusiastic learner and aspiring software developer. In my free time, I enjoy playing the piano and reading manga. Currently, I'm working on a startup business with a couple of my friends. Read more about it here:
printbnb (https://printbnb.ca)
MotiSpectra (https://github.com/sammyyyyy1/MotiSpectra)
Winner at ConUHacks 2024. Studies have shown that the majority of communication is not verbal - body language and facial expression matter too. However, as online conferencing has taken the world by storm, a lot of our communication has been lost through the screen. MotiSpectra is a tool to help bring that back, using computer vision and machine learning to give you, the presenter, an analysis of your audience's engagement and attentiveness. This tool can seamlessly integrate into conferencing platforms, such as Zoom, Google Meet, and MS Teams.
QuizCaster (https://github.com/sammyyyyy1/QuizCaster)
As students, we know all too well the struggle of having to study for our classes by tackling a seemingly never-ending mountain of textbooks and other course notes. QuizCaster is an innovative and intelligent personal quiz assistant that transforms static sources like PDFs, links, and YouTube videos into dynamic learning experiences.
GPT George (https://github.com/sammyyyyy1/gpt-george)
Project made at CalHacks 2023. A twist on the modern voice assistant — George can hear and analyze emotions in your voice and will respond to you accordingly. Powered by GPT-4 and has all the features of other modern voice assistants like Siri and Cortana.
narratorRL (https://github.com/sammyyyyy1/narratorRL)
Won 1st place for Cohere's Sponsor Challenge and 2nd place overall at MetHacks 2023. A mobile app that helps people with impaired vision using image-to-text recognition, text-to-speech, and LLM and NLP to read and summarize a piece of text in a captured image.
Review Recap (https://github.com/sammyyyyy1/ReviewRecap)
Won Noibu's E-commerce Challenge at uOttaHack 5. A Chrome extension that helps shoppers by scraping reviews on an Amazon product page and uses NLP to generate keywords.
Quiztopia (https://github.com/Rijrya/quiztopia)
Project made at QHacks 2023. A mobile trivia game app, which also allows users to log in and save progress.
You can reach me at s27zheng@uwaterloo.ca or connect with me on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-zheng-37898323b/).