William Wang

wang975@usc.edu

(408) 529-7742
615 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA
90007

EDUCATION
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
Honors: Viterbi Undergraduate Fellow, Trustee Full-Tuition Scholar, W.V.T Rusch Engineering Honors Student
Leland High School San Jose, CA
High School Diploma

May 2019
GPA: 3.60/4.00

June 2015
SAT: 2300, GPA: 3.91/4.00

EXPERIENCE AND PROJECTS

Give Them A Hand
Dec. 2014 - present
Co-Founder and Product Designer
Founded a non-profit 501c(3) organization with two other high school students
Designed, built, and donated 3D printed prosthetic hands with AutoDesk Inventor to underprivileged children
Researched and currently implementing electrical impulse nerve sensors in prostheses
GYLT, CO.
Dec. 2015 - present
Co-Founder and Core Team Member
Co-Founder of a software startup that is developing a crowd-driven productivity platform, Kericular(subject to change), that
organizes a users life through public or private blocks, and with a social aspect involved as well.
Collaborate with team to develop the back-end portion of the application(PHP, MySQL), and currently implementing the reset
password function of the site. Currently implementing the plan for a huge marketing push in January 2016 across all of USC.
3D4E: 3D For Everyone at USC
Sept. 2015 - present
Design Team Project Lead and Project Manager
Plan weekly meetings, team bonding events, and delegate tasks to the the electrical team
Designing and implementing circuitry for an amphibious hexapod to exhibit at an annual inter-chapter design competition
Educate team members about Ardiuno IDE and SolidWorks 3D CAD software
WaterHax Drinking water has never been more fun!
Sept. 2015
Collaborated with three friends to create an iOS application in Swift with a LeapMotion sensor that promotes better hydration
Wrote JavaScript code to extract data and push them to a FireBase server. Created a mobile circular graph for the front-end UI.
LikeFai The Instagram Like Enhancer
Nov. 2015
Created a web application(now going mobile as well!) that takes the photos and likes from a users Instagram account and suggests
to the user which photos from his/her photo stream to post next that will be the most popular
Implemented the back-end portion of the application. Utilized Python Flask framework to connect the parsed photos to a web
application interface. Routed the front end to the back-end and created a unified UI/Python symbiosis
The Other Side Your Portal To The Other Side Of The World
Dec. 2015
Implemented the UI and User Input portion of an iOS application that takes the users location and displays the city, state, country,
and pictures of its opposite location on the globe, along with other features
Utilized Swift to take a users coordinates, convert it to a city, administrative area, and country, and display them to the screen
INVOLVEMENT AND RESEARCH
Spark SC Premier student-led entrepreneurship initiative at USC
Sept. 2015 - present
TechLA Internships Internal Partnerships Lead
The goal: Inspire a culture of makers and to expose USC students to their creative potential in entrepreneurship and innovation
USC Formula SAE Racing Electrical Engineering Team Member
Nov. 2015 present
The Media Informatics and Content Analysis(MICA) Group at SAIL
Oct. 2015 - present
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Utilize machine learning algorithms to analyze the independent and joint processing of audio, visual and text information
Developing computational models with KALDI audio processing software to quantify the impact of media on our personal lives
SKILLS AND INTERESTS
Programming Languages: C++, HTML, CSS, Swift, JavaScript, Python Flask
Tools: Xcode, Eclipse IDE, Github, Bitbucket, JIRA
Interests: Startups & Entrepreneurship, Self Improvement, Well-Formed Argumentation, Conversations with Interesting People