Steven Yao

A showcase of my projects and endeavors.

About me

Hi there! I'm a junior at UT Austin planning to graduate in Spring 2023. I am taking CS honors classes and plan to graduate with an honors thesis in Computer Science. In my free time, I love to work out, play basketball, strum guitar, or code random projects (check out my YouTube!)

January 2, 2022

StoryTime Discord Bot

StoryBot uses the GPT-J 6B NLP model: 6 billion parameters trained on the Pile (825 GB of text data) published by EleutherAI. It takes in any number of input words as a prompt and outputs a story starting with the given text. The project is all coded in golang and hosted on Google Cloud Compute Engine in preparation for my Google Cloud Internship!

February 13, 2021

NoFall

NoFall is the all-in-one solution for remote caregiving for the elderly, with smart ambient activity monitoring, proactive risk assessments, fall detection, and mobile alerts.
Submitted to TreeHacks 2021, Stanford's annual hackathon with over 1600 participants from around the globe.
Prizes Won:

[TreeHacks] Most Technically Complex
[Google Cloud] First Place Best Use of Google Cloud
[Citadel] Most Impressive Hack

December 28, 2020

GrassrootsGov

GrassrootsGov aims to inspire political change starting from the grassroots level. Create an account with us to easily and seamlessly nudge your legislators to solve local issues.

October 13, 2020

ScopeResearch

A non-profit organization dedicated to assisting high school students find research opportunities at local universities.

August 3, 2020

WordHunt Solver

A simple and beautiful web app built with a React frontend and a Django backend. Implemented a Trie data structure to efficiently check through the english dictionary for possible word combinations. Used Computer Vision and character recognition to allow direct wordhunt solves through images.
Has over 10k Page Views per month and over 1600 users per month.

July 22, 2020

CamTrack

A web service that receives the live feed of an IP camera and is able to track the number of people in a building. Built during COVID reopening phase to assist my local gym track their number of occupants.