Thomas Liu

Data Science Intern

Berkeley, CA

• Built an internal tool that filters hundreds of research papers for alignment with LBNL's 2024–2034 strategic goals, cutting literature triage from a month-long process to minutes.
• Curated a dataset of academic papers and fine-tuned Gemini 2.5 Pro, at no additional cost to the lab, to power the paper-relevance pipeline.
• Adopted across departments; collaborated through Bitbucket version control.

Next.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Supabase · Claude

• Full-stack app that helps students find and cold-email professors.
• Data pipeline pulling researcher and publication data from OpenAlex and web search, with Claude summarizing each professor's research focus across 140 professors.
• Recommendation engine suggesting similar professors by scoring research-topic overlap.

3rd place overall · Milpitas Hacks

Next.js · TailwindCSS · Flask · Gemini

• 911 operator interface that records, transcribes, and live-summarizes calls to reduce operator burnout.
• Placed third out of 150 competitors.

Bio-Rad Laboratories award

PyTorch · LSTM · GRU

• Collected Fitbit data and trained ML/DL models to predict glucose levels non-invasively.
• Ensemble LSTM + GRU model predicted 98.8% of values within a clinically acceptable range.

AP Research

MLP · TabTransformer · scikit-learn

• Built ML/DL models that improved accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity over existing methods by ~15%.
• Presented at a research symposium; recognized as one of the year's best projects.

B.S. Mathematics of Computation

Differential Equations, CS 31

Concurrent enrollment · GPA 4.0

Linear Algebra, Multivariable Calculus, Discrete Math

GPA 4.5 / 3.9

National Merit Finalist Scholarship Recipient · AIME Qualifier · 3× hackathon winner

Director of Outreach

Dublin, CA

• Drove 450+ sign-ups for one of the largest high school hackathons in the Bay Area.
• Recruited and managed 20+ volunteers for day-of operations.
• Partnered with 13 sponsors (Notion, Vercel, ElevenLabs, Cerebras, Omi, and more) for $4k+ in prizes.