Samuel Zhang

📍 Toronto, Canada

👋 Hi! I'm a CS + Math student at the University of Waterloo and I'm interested in blockchain and AI. When I'm not studying or coding, I enjoy lifting weights, reading, fencing, running, and playing poker. I'm always excited to meet new people, so feel free to reach out!

Featured Projects

LaTeX OCR

Mac app that converts screen captures of math expressions to LaTeX

Swift
Gemini

2048 AI

AI agent that plays the 2048 game using expectimax search algorithm

JavaScript
CSS
HTML
Web Workers

All projects

Work Experience

Software Engineer Intern

TechInsights

Jan 2025 - Apr 2025

Built AI Search using RAG

AWS

Python

LLMs

SQL

Docker

Software Engineer Intern

Dappd

May 2024 - Aug 2024

Built a crypto trading bot and a client dashboard

Python

Next.js

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

Docker

Research Assistant

University of Toronto

Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

Bitcoin research under Prof. Anwar Husain

Bitcoin