Boston, MA
Ian Pang
Computer Science student with a passion for building scalable systems, AI/ML applications, and intuitive user experiences.
Selected work
3 projects-
Nadir
A decentralized disaster verification platform combining AI satellite analysis with crowd-sourced human voting.
Best Use of DigitalOcean HackIllinois 2026 -
Canopy
Decentralized parametric insurance protocol on XRPL that automates payouts from real-time weather data.
2nd Place, Ripple Prize TartanHacks 2026 -
Obscurafy
Privacy-first iOS app that scans photo libraries for sensitive data using on-device machine learning.
1st Place, Cybersecurity HackUMass 2026
Experience
- Aug 2025 — Present
Undergraduate Data Science Researcher
FedEx · The Data Mine at Purdue
- Built a Python simulation engine to model and optimize routing logic for 180,000+ daily packages.
- Implemented data pipelines aggregating and cleaning 200,000+ raw records for warehouse capacity stress-testing.
- May 2025 — Present
Research Assistant
Zhan Lab · Purdue University
- Engineered a real-time embryo detection pipeline with OpenCV/PyTorch at 120 FPS and 20ms latency.
- Trained a ResNet-based CNN for embryo classification reaching 80% accuracy.
- Jun 2025 — Aug 2025
Software Engineer Intern
Suga International Holdings
- Designed a dual-core MicroPython architecture for an audio mixer, cutting latency from 120ms to 13ms.
- Built automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
- Optimized DSP features in C, reducing CPU utilization by 40%.
- Jun 2024 — Aug 2024
Software Engineer Intern
Suga International Holdings
- Deployed real-time pet detection/navigation models on NVIDIA Jetson using YOLO at 99%+ accuracy.
- Scaled an image preprocessing pipeline for 80,000+ images, doubling throughput.
Stack
Languages
- Python
- C / C++
- TypeScript
- Java
- SwiftUI
ML / Systems
- PyTorch
- OpenCV
- CoreML
- YOLO
- LangGraph
Backend / Infra
- Node.js
- FastAPI
- Flask
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
- GCP
