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.

Academic Awards

What i do

App Development
& Projects

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

Research

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

Speech & Debate

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

Writing

Using the power of the pen to express ideas.

Photography

Capturing beauty in the mundane of everyday life.

Sports

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

Music

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

Service

Giving back to my community through volunteering.

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.

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

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.

Astronomy App

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

Testimonials

Get In Touch!

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