Your Name

Derick Lee

About Me

I am a student studying Computer Science and Business (Texas CSB) at The University of Texas at Austin. My primary skillset lies in full-stack development, machine learning, and low-level programming, but I stay curious and like to try out new technologies and frameworks. When I am AFK (away from keyboard), I am indulging in hobbies such as basketball, video games, and drumming.

Experience

Machine Learning Research Assistant

McCombs School of BusinessMay 2025 - Present

Conducting research on LLM steering vectors to analyze semantic differences in social media data between two car brands

Applied steering vectors extracted from 5,000+ tweets to Gemma 3B Instruct LLM from Hugging Face for brand-style generation

Trained scikit-learn logistic regression model with 90% accuracy to classify brand tweets and evaluate accuracy on generated outputs

Performed statistical and NLP analysis to generated text, achieving 95%+ accuracy and strong lexical similarity to 5,000+ tweets

Python
PyTorch
NumPy
Pandas
scikit-learn
Matplotlib
Hugging Face

Software Engineer Intern

DuckiFeb 2025 - Present

Engineering personalized AI tutor that learns what you teach and teaches what you learn. Backed by Antler VC and interviewed by ZFellows and Y Combinator

Led implementation of a drag-and-drop class folder feature using Next.js, tRPC, and Prisma, including restructuring the database schema and designing new API routes

Revamped the sidebar UI and chat interface using Tailwind CSS and TypeScript, delivering a modern, responsive experience to improve user navigation and engagement

Maintained best practices in collaborative software development using Git, managing feature branches, code reviews, and safe production merges via pull requests

Next.js
tRPC
Prisma
Tailwind CSS
TypeScript
Git

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and SciencesAug 2024 - Jan 2025

Explored multi-agent reinforcement learning and Stackelberg-game framework, optimizing decision strategies for two-hop networks

Implemented robust data-handling pipeline to export agent utility data in CSV format, reducing manual logging time by 80%

Conducted scalability tests, analyzing network performance from 5 to 200 relay nodes and varying distances from source node

Analyzed performance with NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib, identifying 50% utility dropoffs in deep reinforcement learning models

Python
PyTorch
NumPy
Pandas
Matplotlib

Projects

Blog Site

Blog Site

Built a blog site with MERN stack deployed on Render. The site allows users to create, edit, and delete blog posts. The blog posts are stored in a MongoDB database and displayed on the home page. Redux and jwt are also used to manage user sessions and authentication.

React

Node.js

Express

MongoDB

Redux

JWT

Tailwind CSS

Flower Image Classifier

Flower Image Classifier

Trained a multi-layer neural network on top of VGG-16 to classify 102 distinct flower species with 80%+ accuracy on a dataset of 500+ flower images. Also built a command line interface allowing customization of hyperparameters.

Python

PyTorch

Matplotlib

NumPy

Web Crawler

Web Crawler

Programmed an efficient web crawler capable of parsing and indexing over 9,000 HTML links with optimal performance. This projects uses a nested Map structure for web indexing and parse trees to process complex queries to enhance search capability.

Java

Skills

Languages:

Java

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

C++

C

HTML

CSS

R

SQL

Frameworks/Technologies:

React

React Native

Next.js

Express.js

Node.js

Tailwind CSS

PyTorch

MongoDB

Supabase

Libraries:

NumPy

Pandas

Matplotlib

scikit-learn

Tools:

Git

GitHub

Hugging Face

LaTeX

VS Code

IntelliJ

Jupyter Notebooks

Anaconda

Contact

Get In Touch

I'm always interested in new opportunities and exciting projects. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to collaborate or just say hello!

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