Zhaojin Chu
ECE @ CMU · Pittsburgh, PA, USA & Dubai, UAE · Curious, hands-on, shipping real things
Carnegie Mellon University
5032 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Hi! I’m Zhaojin, an Electrical & Computer Engineering student at Carnegie Mellon who learns best by building. I’m most at home where hardware meets software — embedded systems, digital design, and applied ML. I follow my curiosity and pick up whatever I need to move ideas forward. I enjoy collaborating with thoughtful teams and am open to project, research, or internship opportunities!
I perform both classical piano and viola (ARSM; DCSO second chair; NYO Dubai section co-lead) and play tennis. I also love coffee. My setup: V60 and Baratza Encore. Always happy to talk coffee over coffee.
Work & Research Highlights
| Oct 2025 | Project Logic Labs Commerce Platform Built the Logic Labs e-commerce platform end-to-end with React, Supabase edge functions, and Stripe checkout running on an Oracle Cloud VM. |
|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | Project Vanilla License Plate CNN Prototyped CNN-based license plate localization with a bespoke preprocessing pipeline and mixed-precision training loops. |
| Mar 2025 | Research Impact and Perception of Generative AI and Related Automation Tools in the Gulf Region Survey-based study (500+ respondents) with structural equation modeling; presented at the 2024 Gulf Research Meeting at Cambridge. |
| Jan 2025 | Project YOLOv5 License Plate Recognition Combined a custom YOLOv5 detector with histogram-boosted preprocessing and ONNX OCR to read plates end-to-end. |
| May 2024 | Project MusBook Teaching Platform Built a Django + Channels platform that handles scheduling, messaging, and automations for teachers and students. |
| Mar 2023 | Project Body Measurement Predictor Engineered a preprocessing-to-inference pipeline that predicts measurement deltas and ships as a desktop app. |