Nicole Fong

Selected Work

Projects

Hackathon wins, research models, and shipped apps.

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Straightline

2026

ADA compliance analysis platform, DiamondHacks 2026 winner

Built in 36 hours at ACM DiamondHacks 2026 (400+ participants). An ADA compliance platform that 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.

  • –Won Best Use of Browser Use at ACM DiamondHacks 2026 among 400+ participants.
  • –Built autonomous multi-agent pipeline to scrape and analyze ADA compliance data.
  • –Integrated Gaussian Splatting for 3D reconstruction of physical locations.
  • –Designed Supabase caching layer to persist scraped compliance metadata across sessions.

Browser Use · Gaussian Splatting · Supabase · Google Maps API · Python · Next.js

Fruit Recognition CNN

2025

Real-time 24-layer GoogLeNet CNN, ACM AI Projects

Engineered a real-time fruit recognition system for the ACM @ UCSD AI Projects Team. Designed a 24-layer GoogLeNet-inspired CNN from scratch with custom IOU and loss functions, trained on the COCO 2017 dataset.

  • –Designed 24-layer GoogLeNet-inspired architecture with inception modules.
  • –Implemented custom IOU metric and composite loss function from scratch.
  • –Trained and evaluated on the COCO 2017 object detection dataset.

Python · PyTorch · GoogLeNet · COCO 2017 · OpenCV · NumPy

More Work

Triton Robotics Autonomy

2025–2026

6-DoF pose estimation with solvePnP, Triton Robotics

Improved 3D object orientation accuracy on a robotics autonomy team by transitioning detection from bounding box methods to feature-based computer vision using sticker and sentry symbol recognition. Prototyped a Python/OpenCV node with contour detection and applied solvePnP with real-world object dimensions to achieve 6-DoF pose estimation.

Python · C++ · OpenCV · ROS2 · Computer Vision · Pose Estimation

Movie Recommendation System

2026

Matrix factorization recommender, CSE 25, UCSD

Built a collaborative filtering recommendation system on the MovieLens 20M dataset using regularized Matrix Factorization trained with SGD. Designed a hybrid scoring model combining personalized latent factor predictions with item popularity signals, achieving Precision@10 of 0.0901 and outperforming both pure MF and popularity-only baselines. Explored the tradeoff between rating prediction accuracy and ranking quality in high-sparsity settings (98.6% matrix sparsity).

Python · NumPy · Collaborative Filtering · Matrix Factorization · SGD

Tigers Vote

2024

SwiftUI voter registration app for ~400 students

Independently built and deployed a SwiftUI iOS app that simplifies the voter registration process for students. Shipped to ~400 students with a clean, native mobile interface.

Swift · SwiftUI · Xcode

RechargeTeach

2024

Swift app for teacher burnout and wellness

A Swift app designed to help combat teacher burnout, featuring wellness check-ins, resource recommendations, and daily reflection prompts for educators.

Swift · SwiftUI · Xcode

PetHub

2025

Next.js interactive anatomy learning app, WiC

An educational Next.js web app built with the Women in Computing project team. Features interactive pet anatomy explorations and learning modules, deployed on Vercel.

Next.js · React · Tailwind CSS · Vercel

Spotify Recommender

2026

Collaborative filtering recommender, ACM AI Mentor

Co-mentored a team of 4 to build a Spotify recommender system using collaborative filtering and user similarity models. Evaluation methodology included Precision@K, Recall@K, and random/popularity baselines.

Python · Collaborative Filtering · scikit-learn · Pandas · Jupyter