Tommy Yan
City of residence: Shanghai
School: East China University of Science and Technology Affiliated Middle School
Intended major: Computer science or electrical engineering
Age during program: Grade 12
Tommy consistently ranks in the top 20% of his class in all subjects. In the past, he has taken classes in C, Python, and Java, as well as automated process control. One of his previous projects include building a basic temperature control system circuit board project.
University Acceptance
★ Vanderbilt University
★ University of Liverpool
★ University of Birmingham
What challenges did he face?
- Tommy is a talented programmer, but he wanted a mentor to help him enhance his talents through a project.
- His task was to increase the accuracy of his dataset by training and testing the dataset.
Matched professor:
A Chemical Engineering lecturer at University of Washington. He integrates engineer and data science — including the DIRECT course series in software engineering and data science.
How did our program help him?
- Tommy used Python’s scikit-learn module to edit and visualize his dataset.
- Finally, he learnt about convolutional neural network, which is an advanced machine learning algorithm used in data analytics.
Below is part of an example work done during the program:
