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Tyler Dong

Boston, MA | (781) 690-9685 | dong.ty@northeastern.edu | tylerdong.vercel.app | github.com/tylerdong878 | linkedin.com/in/tylerdong/

EDUCATION

Northeastern University, College of Engineering, Boston, MA

Candidate for a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and Computer Science

Cumulative GPA: 3.964/4.0 | Dean's List | IBM Thomas J. Watson Memorial Scholarship Recipient

Coursework: Algorithms & Data Structures, Object-Oriented Design, Computer Systems, Embedded Design: Enabling Robotics, Networks, Differential Equations & Linear Algebra, Discrete Structures, Circuits & Signals: Biomedical Applications

Activities/Societies: Combat Robotics, MIT Augmentation Lab, REV Startup School, Wireless Club, NEU SASE, CodePath (Certificate)

SKILLS

Programming Languages: Python, Java, C/C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, MATLAB, SQL

Frameworks & Libraries: React, Next.js, Tailwind, Flask, PyTorch, NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, OpenCV, FastAPI, JUnit

Technologies: Git, Docker, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Firebase, LaTeX, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, Cursor

Electronics & Design Engineering: Arduino, Solidworks, AutoCAD, OnShape, Soldering, Tinkercad

EXPERIENCE

Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University

Teaching Assistant - Object-Oriented Programming

Boston, MA

Sep 2025 - Present

  • Lead lab sessions and office hours 6 hours per week, supporting 400+ students in object-oriented programming principles: encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction, model view controller (MVC) architecture, and design patterns

Teaching Assistant - Discrete Structures

Jun 2025 - Aug 2025

  • Facilitated weekly office hours and supported 70+ students in topics including graph theory and traversal algorithms, sorting algorithm analysis, computational complexity, combinatorics and permutations, probability theory, and rigorous proof techniques

Outamation

AI Automation Extern

Remote

May 2025 - Jul 2025

  • Engineered AI-powered workflows to automate document classification and data extraction, using Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision, and Python-based pipelines (PyMuPDF, OCR techniques)
  • Developed a retrieval system with LlamaIndex and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), leveraging Hugging Face embeddings to improve information search accuracy by 2x across complex mortgage documents
  • Benchmarked open-source LLMs (Mistral 7B, Phi-2, TinyLlama) for document processing performance, delivering a comprehensive report on optimization strategies and deployment recommendations

Quartzy Capital Advisors, LLC

Data Research Intern

New York, NY

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  • Developed a Python tool leveraging yfinance and pandas to automate historical financial data analysis and calculate key financial metrics, fully eliminating manual Excel calculations and data entry errors, reducing processing time by over 95%
  • Organized financial instruments on a quantitative investment database with 500+ securities, streamlining portfolio analysis
  • Assessed 200+ institutional investment prospects, creating an organized pipeline for strategic investment planning

PROJECTS

SnakeRL [GitHub] | Python, PyTorch, NumPy, Gymnasium, Stable-Baselines3, Poetry, Pygame, Matplotlib, TensorBoard

Jul - Aug 2025

  • Engineered deep reinforcement learning system for Snake game agent using proximal policy optimization (PPO), with support for 100+ vectorized parallel environments with novel real-time visualization of all concurrent training episodes for live policy analysis
  • Accelerated model convergence by 7x through custom reward engineering, implementing distance-based heuristics, temporal efficiency bonuses, and dynamic scaling; integrated TensorBoard visualization for performance tracking

NBA Player Consistency Analyzer [GitHub] | Python, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flask, nba_api

Mar - Apr 2025

  • Developed a responsive web application to analyze player consistency for 550+ active players using live data from nba_api
  • Designed system to enable users to dynamically set thresholds to identify players based on recent games, points, rebounds, and assists

Spotify Playlist Updater [GitHub] | Python, Spotify Web API, Spotipy

Nov 2024 - Jan 2025

  • Created a command-line tool to automate playlist management by adding all songs from user-specified artists
  • Built support for real-time artist tracking, automatically detecting and adding new releases to the playlist as they become available
  • Optimized playlist quality by implementing intelligent filtering for duplicates and alternate versions, ensuring clean music libraries

ACHIEVEMENTS/AWARDS

4th Place overall - STHacks [Devpost] | Python, Manim, DearPuGui, Langchain, OpenAI

  • Developed an LLM-powered application that generates educational Manim script videos from natural language prompts

Mar 2025

HackOlympian Finalist, Top 5 out of 105 projects - HackIllinois [Devpost] | TypeScript, React, Next.js, Supabase

  • Built a gamified social finance application that transforms financial management into an engaging social experience

Feb - Mar 2025

"Best Design" out of 40 projects - Civic Tech Hackathon [Devpost] | Python, PyTorch, MoonDream, SAM2, FastAPI

  • Engineered an augmented reality mobile app that gamifies wildlife discovery and conservation through real-time species identification, enabling users to explore outdoors, catalog findings in a personalized "Biodex," and contribute to citizen science efforts

Feb 2025

1st Place for "Interstellar Intelligence" (AI/ML) Track out of 49 projects - BostonHacks [Devpost] | C#, ML-Agents

  • Implemented a deep reinforcement learning model that simulates space environments to train AI to complete specific tasks

Nov 2024