Samantha

First year at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hi, I’m

Samantha Shih

I have a passion for computer science, specifically machine learning, and its applications to assist members of my community. Specifically, I enjoy drawing connections to healthcare.

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Academic Awards

USACO

Bronze 2019 December

Silver 2020 December

Gold 2021 December – with perfect score

Platinum 2022 December(rank 68 in pre-college)

Facebook Meta Hacker Cup

2022 Facebook Meta Hacker Cup Round 3 Participant(Round 2 rank 353/5047, Round 3 rank 319/500)

Other

Academic High Honors With Distinction 2020, 2021, 2022

Kathy Plymire award

AP Scholar with Distinction 2022-2023

Harvard Book Prize(2022-23)

Voice of Democracy

1st place 2021-2022 Voice of Democracy(state representative of Pacific Areas)

3rd place 2020-2021 Voice of Democracy(school)

Debate Awards (public forum)

Finalist(2nd place) 3 Jan 2021 NSDA China

Octo-finalist 8 Oct 2022 NSDA Taiwan Members Invitational Public Forum

Quarter-finalist 9 Oct 2021 NSDA Taiwan Members Invitational Open Public Forum

Semi-finalist 10 Oct 2020 NSDA Taiwan Members Invitational Public Forum

Speech Awards

1st place 2-3 Apr 2022 NSDA Taiwan NSDA National Qualifier Original Oratory

What i do

App Development
& Projects

Crafting innovative apps and systems, identifying problems and applying skills to solve these problems.

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Research

Exploring computer science in depth and publishing findings in conference and journal papers.

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Speech & Debate

Spreading personal ideas to make an impact; drawing connections between causes and effects and improvising answers.

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Writing

Using the power of the pen to express ideas.

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Photography

Capturing beauty in the mundane of everyday life.

Under Construction

Sports

Physically and mentally challenging myself; learning to collaborate with both human and non-human teammates.

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Music

Creating and contributing to melodic harmonies through my voice or an instrument.

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Service

Giving back to my community through volunteering.

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Featured Projects

EM Touch App

EMTouch is an app that trains users to identify the emotions behind common facial expressions, with the goal of facilitating communication between autistic and neurotypical individuals.

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iQuery Miner

Extension that tracks google searches for a certain topic and uses clustering to determine repeated keywords; organizes information to sort links by keywords in a user dashboard

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Handwriting Classification

Handwritten digits are currently labeled as distinct labels, yet there are cases in which digits can be seen in two different ways. A website is used to collect user answers to ambiguous digits, creating a probability distribution to be used as training data for uncertain or fuzzy predictions to improve the accuracy of handwriting classification.

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Astronomy App

App that informers users to special astronomical phenomena and enables astronomers to share their data and findings through an online platform

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Testimonials

"I have had the pleasure of working with Samantha on various projects, such as her nail classification paper. Her curiosity about the projects I was working on and willingness to help out really stood out to me. Hardworking, self-motivated, and creative, Samantha is one of my favorite people to work with on any project. Over the past few years at the lab, I have watched her grow to become a great leader and researcher. Specifically, I remember how the AlexNet with Attention model accuracy kept fluctuating regardless of how the parameters were set. Rather than getting frustrated, Samantha stayed at the lab late into the night and used graphs of relationships between many variables and many trials to figure out which variables she needed to change for the best classification performance. "
Tzu-Yu SunFormer Student of Chung Shan Medical University
Tzu-Yu Sun
"I worked with Samantha during her first year at the lab. She is extremely reliable, efficient, and hardworking, while also being funny. During the 3D VOSNet journal paper project, I remember Samantha fulfilling not just the tasks we assigned to her, but also going out of her way to help me with the experiments I was in charge of. It is also worth mentioning that she is one of the few people I know who have a strength in not just computer science, but also in the humanities – communication and writing. She helped me phrase a lot of the content for the part I wrote in the journal paper. Overall, she is really a joy to work with and I am confident she will continue to achieve great success with whatever she does."
I-Miao ChenFormer Student of Chung Shan Medical University
I-Miao Chen

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Feel free to reach out at sammyshih888@gmail.com or drop a message above. I'm always open to anything ranging from business inqueries to coffee chats

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