AI / ML · Full Stack · Engineer
Nicole Fong
Second-year AI student at UCSD building multimodal AI systems, computer vision tools, and production ML pipelines. ACM mentor. TESC Co-President. Hackathon winner.
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About
At a glance
Nicole Fong · Developer Profile
Core skills
Field notes
* Self-reported. Fueled by iced tea and deadline pressure.
AI major, interested in Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience. Passionate about building tools that support others and translating technical explanations to help everyone learn about technology, regardless of background.
Seeking Software Development and Product Management Intern roles for Summer 2027.
Always an iced tea nearby. Always a problem worth solving. :)
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Featured Work
Straightline ↗
ADA compliance platform built in 36 hours. Uses autonomous Browser Use agents to scrape accessibility data for real-world locations, Gaussian Splatting for 3D environment reconstruction, and Supabase for caching. Won Best Use of Browser Use among 400+ participants.
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Experience
CSE PACE Lead Mentor
UC San Diego, Computer Science & Engineering · Sept. 2026–Present
- –Mentor 100+ first-year students in the CSE PACE program through weekly small-group sessions, building peer community and academic confidence in the major.
- –Facilitate hands-on group exercises connecting first-years to CSE courses, resources, and campus opportunities.
Google Student Ambassador
Google · Aug. 2026–Present
- –Represent Google as one of 100 students nationally chosen to lead campus outreach at 50 U.S. universities.
- –Plan and help run on-campus events and outreach initiatives to build awareness of Google's tools, career resources, and student programs.
AI & ML Intern
ChakraTech, San Diego, CA · Jun.–Aug. 2026
- –Led development of a property-prediction pipeline for biodegradable polymers, engineering structural features to prioritize which candidates move forward to physical testing.
- –Identified and corrected a data leakage risk by grouping structurally related compounds during train/test splitting, preventing inflated accuracy estimates.
Operations Assistant
Rad Blue Inc, San Francisco, CA · Jan.–Aug. 2026
- –Improved performance for sales verticals by 18% across 30+ tasks by building ground-truth evaluation baselines and rubric-based assessments for RLHF fine-tuning.
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Awards & Publications
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Student Orgs
Association for Computing Machinery
Oct. 2025–PresentAI Events Director · AI Projects Mentor ×2
Directs AI event programming for UCSD's largest student org, planning 5+ events this fall including the AI School Series and AI Fall Kickoff. Mentors 15+ students on applied ML fundamentals using PyTorch, scikit-learn, and Hugging Face.
Triton Engineering Student Council
Oct. 2025–PresentCo-President · Tech Committee
Leading the umbrella organization for 50+ UCSD engineering clubs, setting fall priorities for club funding and corporate sponsorships, and hosting events for 500+ students.
Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship Council
VP Events
Women in Computing
Project Teams, Fall 2025
Triton Robotics
Autonomy Team · 2025–26
Roblox x RBXDev
Finance & Website Staff
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