Yutao Xu

Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing

May 2025

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

The Future Sphere

Jul. 2023 - Present

Programming Instructor

• Taught programming in Python and Java to over 50 students from elementary to high school

• Developed students’ algorithmic reasoning skills such as abstraction and recursion

• Used object-oriented principles such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism to represent real life identities and interactions

• Explained data structures to efficiently perform data operations

• Explored and implemented algorithms such as depth first search and breath first search

Stony Brook University, Division of Information Technology

Aug. 2021 - Aug. 2022

Student Technician

• Troubleshoot and configure devices such as computers, phone, and printers for the students and faculty members in the university}

• Re-image university owned computers and perform hardware diagnostics tests}

• Assist users with walk-in issues at reception, create tickets using the University ticketing system}

• Handle calls from the students and staff and escalate them to the appropriate department}

• Configure printer, computer, and network connection}

OpsCafé

Jan. 2025 - Apr. 2025

• Collaborated in a team of 4 to develop an enterprise resource planning software for coffee shop and café owners

• Allow coffee shop owners to display inventory, purchase stock, record purchases, display customer reviews

• Curate and process data such at purchase history and customer reviews

• Store and query structured data such as inventory, customers, and supplier information in MySQL and unstructured data such as customer reviews in MongoDB

• Create visualization to analyze the most popular coffee items

Hollow Knight Tribute

Sep. 2023 - Dec. 2023

• Collaborated in a team of 5 to develop objective seeking game in android

• Implemented player control, automatic enemy movement, and collision detection

• Implemented player scoring, leaderboard, and varying enemy speed based on difficulty level

• Used design patterns such as singleton, factory, decorator to improve design

• Utilized agile development strategies and attended scrum meetings

Machine Unlearning

Sep. 2023 - Dec. 2023

• Collaborated in a team of 4 to research methods of unlearn trained weights associated with deleted data

• Utilized Resnet-18 architecture as the model to predict ages from images

• Implemented Selective Synaptic Dampening, Optimizing Last-K Layers, and Forgetting last K layers on the model

• Curated and processed data to feed into the model

• Compared training with only the retained dataset as the baseline to applying unlearning algorithms on the entire dataset

Python, Java, C/C++, SQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS

React, Node.js, Flask

Linux/Unix, Git, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, Android Studio

Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch, Matplotlib

Object-oriented Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, Design Patterns, Databases, Computer Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision