Zhongze Zheng
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Skills

Curriculum development 1 Education theories 1 Instructional strategies 1 Javascript (programming language) 1 Lesson planning 1 Programming concepts 1

Achievements

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Work experience

Teaching Assistant
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
September 2024 - Current

TA for Java and Software Development Courses, assisting students with object-oriented programming (OOP), data structures, and software design patterns.

React Developer and Research Assistant
University of Toronto, Interactive Media Lab
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
September 2024 - Current

Developed interactive web-based games using JavaScript and React.js, implementing reusable UI components and dynamic game mechanics.
• Expert in JavaScript asynchronous programming, optimizing game performance using Promises, async/await, and event loops to ensure smooth animations and non-blocking operations.

Database Designer
Siemens
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
July 2023 - September 2023

Participated in a charity collaboration between Siemens and the government to provide hearing aids to elderly individuals in remote areas, designing a database to collect data and support production.

Personal projects

Local AI-Powered Email Management System
January 2025 - Current

Developed a local email management system to aggregate emails from multiple accounts and enable offline access.
• Built an automated email filtering pipeline, leveraging NLP models (BERT, TF-IDF) to categorize emails based on relevance and priority.
• Implemented AI-driven summarization, using Hugging Face Transformers to generate concise summaries for long emails, improving reading efficiency

VR for Public Speaking
September 2024 - Current

Collaborated on a PhD research project to develop a VR application aimed at reducing anxiety and nervousness in public speakers.

UofT Timetable Builder
December 2023 - March 2024
https://github.com/UofT-Box/UofT-Timetable-Builder

Built a full-stack application using the MERN stack to allow students to generate and customize their academic schedules.
• Optimized MongoDB queries by designing efficient indexing strategies, reducing database query response times by 30%.
• Built a high-performance scheduling application using modern JavaScript (ES6+) and the MERN stack, integrating efficient data structures and algorithms to enhance performance.