Clarence Chio

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Financial Marketplace Referee (Bayes Hack 2016)

Apr 2016

- Won overall 2nd place and top in the Department of Commerce category in Bayes Hack 2016 (http://bayeshack.org/) - Built a tool and an interfaceless app (via SMS query) for consumers to check if a financial product or institution is potentially involved in discriminatory or malicious lending practices. - By enriching the consumer complaint dataset with population demographic statistics sourced from the American Community Survey, our research shows that there exist notable relationships between companies that have received complaints from those geographical regions with the largest minority populations (on the 5-digit zipcode granulatity) and the companies that are eventually charged with discriminatory product offerings. - we show that our

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Beethoven vs. Taylor Swift (NuPIC Fall Hackathon 2014)

Oct 2014

- Attended the Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC) fall Hackathon 2014. (18-19 October 2014) - Used and tuned the NuPIC cortical learning platform, worked with their implementations of the Cortical Learning Algorithm and Hierarchical Temporal Memory to develop a simple learning system for midi files. - We created 2 classifier models, one trained on many of Beethoven's piano pieces, and another trained on Taylor Swift's popular hits (e.g. Love Story). - We then fed in a new piece that the model has never seen before, and it would guess if the piece was written by Beethoven or Taylor Swift. - With more time and tuning, this could be used to tell apart pieces by composers in a more similar genre. (i.e. Beethoven and Chopin) - Wo

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Chain Check (Intel IoT Hackathon - Mountain View)

Oct 2014

- Won 3rd place for the Intel Internet-of-Things Hackathon. (4-5 September 2014) - Built a predictive maintenance system (pre-emptive "check-engine" light) for your bicycle. - Used the Intel Edison and Galileo (Gen. 2) microprocessor boards, along with sensors and breakout boards generously provided by Intel. - We gather signatures of how your bike chain and derailleur sound when they are running perfectly right after a tuneup, and periodically monitor how the sounds change over time. The premise is that we can use simple machine learning classification techniques to detect anomalies in the sounds, and be able to passively predict upcoming problems with your bike, without you having to monitor it. - Worked with 2 other teammates.

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Verbosity (Salesforce $1m Hackathon)

Oct 2014

- Attended the Salesforce $1m hackathon to build a mobile application on the Salesforce platform for enterprise-facing purposes. (10-12 October 2014) - Built a native android application that uses continuous speech recognition (Google Speech Recognizer API) along with some simple machine learning algorithms to classify unstructured speeches into structured meeting minutes. - Just provide it a simple topical agenda, and the app will be able to classify text snippets under the various topics, with contextual awareness and continuous online-learning. - Worked with 1 other teammate.

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Store Locator Wix Widget (Wix 24-Hour Code Lab)

Sep 2014

- Attended the Wix 24-Hour Code Lab (19-20 September) - Used the Wix widget API to build a customizable store geolocator widget for people using Wix to make websites. - Many small businesses use Wix to make their business websites, and need a simple store geolocator widget so their customers can enter a zipcode or city,state and find the closest store to them. - It was a highly requested widget that did not exist on the widget store. - Worked with 1 other designer

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Duolingus (SF Comedy Hack Day 2014)

Sep 2014

- Attended SF Comedy Hack Day 2014 (26-28 September 2014) - Made a web application/game that aims to improve the player's sex life. - Details are probably unsuitable for LinkedIn, but we had a good time. - Made it into the top 8 teams that went on to the finals presentation in Bravia theatre SF on 28th Sept to a crowd of 300+ - Got an honorable mention from the judges - Worked with a team of 3 comedians and 1 front-end developer.

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Missio Voting Cube (Electric Imp + PubNub Hackathon)

Sep 2014

- Won the grand prize for the Electric Imp + PubNub Internet of Things Hackathon (6 September 2014). - Built a hardware voting cube with Electric Imp wifi boards, using PubNub message passing APIs to achieve a distributed voting quorum network. - Perceivably useful in many situations, such as restaurants and parties. - Worked with 2 other teammates.

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Megalopolis (SF DataWeek Hackathon)

Sep 2014

- Attended the SF DataWeek Hackathon 2014, (13-14 September 2014) and won honorable mention in the overall category. - Built a web application that ripped live webcam streams (street cams), and used Python/OpenCV libraries to analyze the video stream - Achieved reasonable accuracy in the realtime counting of the number of human beings that appear in a video frame at each point in time - Mapped the counts of people on a map, and created a dashboard interface so the user can switch between different streetcams in Manhattan - Could be used for crowd control, public resource allocation, emergency services etc? - Worked with 2 other teammates

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TorChat Bot (Thorn x Formation 8 Hackathon)

Aug 2014

- Attended the Thorn Hackathon against child sexual exploitation (23-24 August 2014). - Attempted to build a man-in-the-middle eavesdropping chatbot on the TorChat network, where many paedophilic sexual predators lurk. - Did not manage to complete a fully working prototype of the idea due to the arcaneness of the TorChat APIs, but the project was validated by those involved in the industry. - Worked with 1 other teammate. - Would love to continue exploring this idea with any others who are interested to work on it with me.

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