Toronto
Ben Zhou
Third-year Computer Science and Finance/Economics student at the University of Toronto. Builds software, mostly at hackathons, and takes photographs.
About
- Education
- University of Toronto, St. George
B.Sc. Computer Science and Finance/Economics, expected June 2028 - Experience
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Director of UI/UX, CUSEC (Canadian University Software Engineering Conference)Sept 2025 to present
Firmware and Design Team Member, UofT Autonomous Scale Racing (UTASR)Sept 2025 to present C++ firmware for NVIDIA Jetson and Arduino, ROS integration testing, and SolidWorks chassis parts.
Marketing Manager, RCVC (Rotman Commerce Venture Capital), a UofT student club. He designed and built its website, rcventure.ca, live since September 10, 2026.
- Research
Context-Based Captioning System, UofT Trustworthy Machine IntelligenceSept 2025 to present Fine-tuned Whisper for lecture speech recognition, producing real-time captions and corrected transcripts.
- Hackathons
9 wins2 organized15+ attended
- Photography
- Shoots Sony: cities, water, cars, and the people in them. Took Photography 11 and 12 in high school, and made a short film (2023) and a music video (2024). See the photographs.
- Languages
- English and Mandarin Chinese (native), French (limited)
- Tools
- Python, TypeScript, Swift, Dart, Java, C++, Next.js, React, FastAPI, Flutter, Tailwind, Postgres, Docker