hello.
i'm Rachel Li :)

Welcome!

I am a fourth-year at Northeastern University studying Data Science (and minoring in Marketing). I am interested in machine learning, UX/UI design, data engineering, and web development.

What do I love about tech?

I was exposed to coding for the first time in college, and ever since, I have been exploring new realms of the tech world every day, either through classes, hackathons, or self-learning. I am fascinated by how data can be analyzed and transformed to create meaning. The ability to train models to predict and classify anything, including images and voices, is incredible and I want to learn more about how this is possible.

I love that the opportunities to learn and grow my skills are endless. Through co-ops and internships, I gained full-stack and front-end software engineering experience, but I feel that I have just touched the surface of these complex areas of study. I recently discovered my passions in developing front-end interfaces for mobile and web applications. However, I don't want to limit myself to one area of software engineering for my entire career. I also find interest in data analysis, data engineering, and entrepreneurship that I would like to pursue in the future.

Projects:

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Android mobile app for better studying habits

Android app that rewards periods of studying by taking care of your study buddy pet, built with three-person team.

Skills learned: Android mobile development
Languages: Java
Tools: Android Studio
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Classify images of recycleable waste and e-waste

Self-learned deep learning project to predict images of materials like glass, plastic, paper, metal, cardboard, and e-waste.

Skills learned: Deep learning Tenserflow
Languages: Python
Tools: Tensorflow Jupyter notebook
Convolutional Neural Network
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Predict Yelp star rating of restaurants

Supervised machine learning project to predict star ratings of restaurants on Yelp, completed with three-person team.

Skills learned: Supervised machine learning
Data wrangling Hypothesis testing
Lab report writing
Languages: Python
Tools: scikit-learn library Heatmap vis.
RFE feature selection Jupyter notebook
Grid search model optimization
Model evaluation metrics
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New York City 3D/VR interactive scene

Unity scene that allows you to navigate the city with moving cars on streets.

Skills learned: VR development
Languages: C#
Tools: Unity
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Interactive analysis of Boston crime data

Boston crime data analysis with CRUD operations through command-line interface.

Skills learned: CRUD operations
Database schema creation
Command-line interface (CLI)
Languages: mySQL Java
Tools: mySQL Workbench