Zaichen Hao

Phone: +1 224 844 1206

Email: felixhao772@gmail.com

Website: felix772.github.io


Education

University of Florida

B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics

Gainesville, FL

Expected May 2028

  • UF Distinguished Scholars Scholarship Recipient
  • Relevant coursework: Operating Systems, Algorithms, Database & Information Systems, Computer Organization

Nanyang Technological University

Study Abroad Program in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Singapore

Jun 2025 - Aug 2025


Work Experience

Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence

AI Engineering Intern

Beijing, China

May 2026 - Present

  • Automated technical research workflows in Python using web scraping, API integration, data parsing, and metadata analysis to evaluate academic papers and technical resources for AI History Show, an interactive web exhibition for the 70th anniversary of the Dartmouth Conference.
  • Analyzed open-source repositories using OScanner to assess code quality, commit patterns, contributor activity, dependency health, and potential AI-generated code risks.

Projects

Order Matching Engine

Nov 2025

  • Built a high-performance C++ order matching engine for a single equity, implementing price-time priority, deterministic execution, strict correctness guarantees, and integer-based price representation to avoid floating-point inaccuracies.
  • Optimized latency-critical data paths using ordered price-level maps and unordered ID-location mapping, achieving about 2.2 microseconds effective per-order latency and about 450K orders/sec on a single core.
  • Profiled hot paths with Google Benchmark and Linux perf to identify bottlenecks and improve consistency.
  • Project notes

Earnings Call Intelligence Agent

Apr 2026

  • Built an AI-powered earnings call intelligence backend with FastAPI, OpenAI API, and PostgreSQL with pgvector, exposing 6 REST endpoints for transcript ingestion, RAG-based Q&A, and quarter-over-quarter financial analysis using chunked embeddings and top-k vector similarity search.
  • Implemented a structured LLM report engine to compare current and prior-quarter transcripts and identify tone shifts, demand trends, margin changes, guidance updates, and risk flags.
  • Added 31 unit tests across schema validation, chunking, health checks, and quarter-resolution logic while supporting 3 transcript ingestion paths.
  • Project notes

Film Revenue Predictor

Jul 2025

  • Led a 7-person AI course project at Nanyang Technological University, defining project scope and technical direction while building machine learning models with pandas and scikit-learn to predict film revenue from genre, budget, language, cast, and other 2019-2024 data features.
  • Improved random forest model performance through k-fold cross-validation and hyperparameter tuning, increasing R2 from 0.47 to 0.86.

Additional

Technical Skills: C++, Python, SQL, Linux, Low-Latency Systems, Google Benchmark, Numerical Computing

Training: Selected as 1 of 8 official members from 100+ applicants for Qishi Club’s Low-Latency Systems course; delivered a lecture on instrumentation and performance optimization and two lectures on data structures.

Publication: “Comparison Between Different Qubit Designs for Quantum Computing.” IJHSR, 2024.


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