I'm a developer passionate about video games. I graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Statistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics. My interests lie at the intersection of software engineering, machine learning, and video games.

Previously, I was a Software Engineer at IGG Canada. I contributed to the UI system and back-end logic of multiple features in mobile titles like Last Trigger and Dawn of Survival, ensuring performance and high responsiveness across diverse mobile devices. I architected scalable solutions to support complex gameplay mechanics and optimized code for memory efficiency within a fast-paced live-service environment. Additionally, I collaborated closely with game designers and UI artists to refine UI components, delivering a polished and intuitive user experience (UX).

FLGAN

We propose Focal Loss Generative Adversarial Network (FLGAN), an improved DCGAN with focal loss to speed up the training process and advance model performance.

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Optimal Pathfinder with Reinforcement Learning

Software that discovers the optimal (shortest) path to a goal in a simulated maze environment. We implemented a Q learning algorithm that selects moves for the reinforcement learning agent. Exploration strategies include epsilon-greedy and the Boltzmann Stochastic Policy derived from the softmax of Q-values.

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DUMN: Graph Generating API

An interactive JavaScript canvas API for generating graph vertices and edges.

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Microblog

A microblogging web application written in Python and Flask, modified from the app that I originally built for SigmaHacks 3. Microblog has email support, user-following features, and I18n & L10n support.

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Neural Network for Facial Expression Classification

Fully-connected neural networks trained on a subset of Toronto Faces Dataset. We implemented the neural network from scratch and trained it by tuning a set of hyperparameters, and we modified the model architecture for better generalization. The model achieved an excellent testing accuracy of 71.68%.

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Agenda

Android calendar app that allows event creation for multiple users. Features include searching events by names, creating events based on given frequencies, and tagging events. I majorly designed and implemented the Android GUI. I also programmed SQLite database helper to query user data. This app was developed in Winter 2020 in my software design course.

Ziyue Yang, Yunlong Chen, Xi Zheng, Juliana Chu, Yeuk Lam Ng, Jiajun Chen

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ConvNet for Digit Recognition

Sequential Convolutional Neural Network for digit recognition. The network has 5 layers and is trained on the MNIST dataset. We built this ConvNet using the Keras API.

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Predicting Voting Behavior in Canadian Elections

Mohammad Ettouhami, Sanjam Sigdel, Ziyue Yang

Time Series Analysis: Forecasting TSLA Stock Price using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Model

We make predictions of Tesla's stock price using ARIMA model. We turned the stock data stationary, performed time series analysis and made forecasting. ARIMA is one of the most popular models to predict linear time series data.

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^§Sentence Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks

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PIRLS

Model built using parsnip engine that computes the logistic Lasso using coordinate descent on the penalized iteratively reweighted least squares algorithm.

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Image Stitcher

I implemented functions in a package that takes image inputs and transform them into cross-stitch patterns. The package uses K-means algorithm to cluster images into a chosen number of groups based on the RGB information. Helper methods on choosing the ideal number of clusters are provided.

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UniMart

App to practice Django usage.

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Ziyue Yang

FPV Navigator

First-person view navigator implemented in C++ inspired by the ray casting algorithm from Wolfenstein 3D. The algorithm takes an input of 2-dimensional maps made up of blocks and spaces, and renders 3D spaces based on the maps. This navigator allows player to "walk around" in the command line-rendered space. This project uses some fundamental knowledge of linear algebra in 3D space.

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Treemap

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Yizhou Hu^∇, Ziyue Yang^∇