ZOE CHEN
Zoe Chen
Zoe Chen

hi, welcome to my page :)
zoec@uchicago.edu

[computational & applied math @ uchicago '30]
works
Netflix user activity analysis: cleaned a multi-file dataset with missing values and duplicate entries, engineering custom features for a binary classification model.
bank customer churn predictor: built a neural network with PyTorch to predict churn on an imbalanced dataset, cleaning and feature-engineering with Pandas/NumPy and evaluating with precision-recall curves, Youden's J statistic, and f1-scores (~69%/79% precision across classes).
previously
high school: salutatorian, cum laude society junior inductee, admission ambassador, model un club prez.
awards: united states academic decathlon individual competition two-time winner; john locke global essay finalist (econ category); national latin exam golds & silvers.
internships: climate change research @ both nasa's gsfc and smithsonian science education center NESST summer internships.
about
based in: corona del mar, CA
two dogs: yasu (yorkie) and bruiser (shih-tzu)
i love: traveling, pilates, nyt crosswords, and beach bonfires
my game recs: balatro, stardew valley, stray, reigns (the inspo for this page!), and any indie game.
skills: pytorch, tf, pandas, matplotlib, numpy, seaborn, css, html, sql
currently learning: how to implement LLMs, NLPs, and GANs