Software engineer and applied researcher working where education meets infrastructure. I build systems that real classrooms and research groups depend on, and I care about whether they keep working after I hand them over.
Most of my projects started from a concrete need: a live classroom platform that had to be taken over and kept running, a lab that wanted shared AI infrastructure without scattering API keys across projects, a journal whose editors checked manuscript formatting by hand. My aim in each case is the same: make the system tested, secure, and documented well enough that someone else can operate it after I leave.
The question I want to study next grows out of that work: how can we tell whether a check that reports success, such as a test, a monitor, or an access rule, is actually protecting anything?
Taipei, Taiwan · NTNU, Learning Sciences (cognitive science and HCI applied to how people learn), double major in Computer Science · Senior, graduating 2027
GPA 4.01 / 4.3 · Department rank 2 of 14 · Academic Achievement Award · NTNU Programming Project Competition, Project Distinction Award (x2)
cw.huang.work@gmail.com · Mandarin (native) · English
| upstream PRs | 13 pull requests merged upstream into UC Berkeley's WISE platform (11 in WISE-API, 2 in WISE-Client): 10 security or user-facing behavior fixes and 3 test follow-ups, shipped in the project's regular releases |
| first author | Research: first-author paper accepted at ICCE 2026; first-author journal manuscript in preparation |
| production systems | Production systems built and operated for live classrooms and active research groups, alongside coursework, research, and teaching |
| workshop participants | Instructor & TA: AI-agent design workshops at 3 institutions for about 100 participants, mostly in-service teachers; TA for SQL & Database Design |
| RA appointments | 9 research assistant appointments since 2023-09, under 4 PIs (Profs. Nian-Shing Chen, Yu-Ju Lan, Hsin-Yi Chang, and Cheng-Chih Wu), funded by NSTC, MOST, and MOE |
Awards (5)
- Academic Achievement Award (書卷獎), NTNU, fall 2025 semester
- STAR Scholarship (STAR 星辰獎學金), NTNU, spring 2026 semester
- Project Distinction Award (專題特優獎), NTNU General-Education Programming Project Competition, 11th and 12th editions, 2024
- Five-Fold Education Scholarship, Moral Education Award (五育獎學金－德育獎), NTNU, 2024
- Statistical Science Camp, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, 2025 (completed)
Certifications (2)
- TCSOL Professional Teaching Certification (Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages), Institute of Chinese Language Teaching (ICLT, 全球漢語教學總會), 2024
- Diploma in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (Level 3), TQUK-endorsed, International Han Institute, 2024: completed a 66-hour Chinese teacher training program (2024-03 to 2024-05) covering phonetics, characters, Pinyin and Zhuyin, sentence patterns, grammar teaching, and second-language learning
Languages: Python · TypeScript · Rust · SQL · C · Java
Backend: FastAPI · Flask · Spring Boot · SQLAlchemy · Pydantic · Celery
Frontend: Vue 3 · React · Next.js · Angular · Tailwind · Vite
Data: PostgreSQL · MySQL · Redis · Qdrant · Neo4j · SQLite
AI/ML: OpenAI · Anthropic · MCP · RAG · GraphRAG · PyTorch Geometric · XGBoost
Infra: Docker · gVisor · Nginx · Cloudflare · GitHub Actions · Bash
Engineering: System design · API design · Testing strategy · CI/CD
Security & Ops: Access control · Sandboxing · Secrets management · Monitoring & alerting · Disaster recovery
Sole developer and operator on the university side for NTNU's deployment of UC Berkeley's WISE science-learning platform, which serves secondary-school science classes in Taiwan. (Private repos under WISE-NTNU-Community.)
Took over the platform in July 2026 and, over 41 active days, brought 15 repositories under version control, built 3 CI/CD pipelines, and built an administration dashboard with 953 backend and 446 frontend tests. Problems found along the way that also affected upstream were fixed at the source: 13 pull requests reviewed and merged by Berkeley's maintainers, including administrator-only enforcement for user and account management (#322), a run-ownership check on batch group password resets (#325), a check that a student belongs to the run before their password can be changed (#332), and atomic project saves that prevent corrupted project files under rapid editing (#358).
Stack: Java · Spring Boot · Angular · FastAPI · Next.js · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Docker · GitHub Actions
SMAP: Multi-Agent LLM Platform
Platform for an NSTC-funded undergraduate research project. Sole developer; in active development.
Lets researchers define LLM agents, compose them into workflows, ground them in documents, give them sandboxed tools, and audit what happened, without writing code. 14 domain modules, 364 REST endpoints, 8 WebSocket channels, 8,400+ backend tests, 1,800+ frontend tests. Includes a visual workflow editor with a hand-written expression language, gVisor-sandboxed tool execution, envelope-encrypted bring-your-own API keys, and RAG + GraphRAG with cross-store consistency.
Stack: Python · FastAPI · TypeScript · Vue 3 · PostgreSQL · Redis · Qdrant · Neo4j · Docker · gVisor
AI Nexus: Self-Hosted LLM Gateway
Sole developer. In production on a lab Mac Studio, giving the lab shared AI infrastructure without per-project API keys and model configs.
LLM inference gateway with an OpenAI-compatible API, a management control plane, multi-runtime support (Ollama, MLX, vLLM), key management, spend controls, and health monitoring with alerting. 91 endpoints, ~1,500 tests, 12 Compose services. Verified by actually rebooting the host to confirm unattended recovery and by restore drills. Recent additions include a Rust/PyO3 native tokenizer that reads GGUF model files directly for token counting and chat-template rendering, and a model-evaluation harness with multi-seed rotation and quantization-matched comparisons for production model selection.
Stack: Python · Rust (PyO3) · FastAPI · TypeScript · React · PostgreSQL · Docker · launchd
| Project | What it does |
|---|---|
| AI3L | Academic-exchange community platform (forum, Q&A, events, DMs, admin suite) in 17 locales. Lead developer of a two-person team: 588 of 604 commits, 205 endpoints |
| Hybrid Copyediting System | Formatting checker for the SSCI journal Educational Technology & Society: 163 requirements distilled into 47 rules for citations, references, and journal style; writes findings back as Word comments via raw OOXML |
| Fishbone Cave | Multi-device classroom creativity activity. In a four-day sprint, added a self-hosted room server and deployment path to a colleague's project, and ported and reviewed its AI review service |
| Math Defense | Tower-defense game where math operations are the controls, with a deterministic C99/WASM scoring kernel replayed server-side for anti-cheat. 3-person team, technical lead |
| ETF Co-Ownership Networks | Capstone (3-person team, defense 2026-12): do debiased ETF co-ownership networks improve out-of-sample prediction of Taiwan stock returns? Built the audited, reproducible 17-stage pipeline: 16.5M panel rows, a pre-specified Ridge model with tree and GAT comparisons, Clark-West tests over 2018–2025, and 132 robustness variants checked against permutation placebos. Result: no detectable predictive gain, reported as falsification evidence; paper in revision |
| NOJ | Online judge used in NTNU CS courses. Front-end contributor: consolidated PR #14 (81 files), sandbox rule editor, i18n including Taiwanese Hokkien |
| SQL Client | SQL middleware with AST-based query validation, database-scope access control, and SSRF prevention |
Collaboration
- WISE upstream: authored 13 pull requests that Berkeley's maintainers reviewed and merged across two repositories; disclosed security fixes in the pull requests after confirming neither repository had a private reporting channel
- Fishbone Cave: worked inside a colleague's project structure and agreed feature boundaries with the owner during a four-day sprint
- NOJ: contributed to a multi-developer production codebase used by CS courses
First author · "Generative AI as a Socratic Tutor in Robot-Assisted Language Learning: Multidimensional Usability Costs and Attitudinal Outcomes" · ICCE 2026 (accepted)
Compares three LLM tutoring agents that teach English grammar on a robot-and-tablet platform, with 32 ninth-grade EFL learners.
First & corresponding author · "Three LLM-Driven AI Agents on a Robot-and-Tablet Platform for EFL Grammar Learning: An Exploratory Pilot" · journal manuscript in preparation
Research experience (9 appointments since 2023-09)
| Period | Role |
|---|---|
| 2026-08 – 2026-12 | RA, MOE project (Prof. Nian-Shing Chen) |
| 2026-07 – 2027-07 | Platform developer & operator, TWISE, NSTC project (Prof. Hsin-Yi Chang) |
| 2026-07 – 2027-02 | NSTC Undergraduate Research Project, sole developer of SMAP (advisor: Prof. Nian-Shing Chen) |
| 2026-07 – 2026-08 | RA, MOE Higher Education Sprout Project, journal submission-system work (Prof. Yu-Ju Lan), 2 appointments |
| 2026-02 | RA, NSTC project (Prof. Yu-Ju Lan) |
| 2026-01 – 2026-06 | RA, NSTC project (Prof. Nian-Shing Chen) |
| 2025-07 – 2025-12 | RA, MOE project (Prof. Nian-Shing Chen): NLP, MCP, workflow automation |
| 2025-02 – 2025-06 | RA, MOST project (Prof. Nian-Shing Chen): NLP, HCI, AI agents |
| 2023-09 – 2024 | RA, ICILS 2023 Taiwan team (Prof. Cheng-Chih Wu) |
Teaching & Mentoring
| When | What |
|---|---|
| 2026-09 – 2026-12 | Teaching assistant, SQL & Database Design, NTNU |
| 2026-01 – 2026-03 | Instructor, AI-agent design workshops at 3 institutions (about 100 participants, mostly in-service teachers) |
| 2024 | Programming instructor, Python, Fuhe Junior High School |
| 2023 – 2024 | Digital tutor, MOE Digital Companion program |
Languages: each repository's commits are split by that repository's language mix, across personal, organization and private repositories.
I'm applying to master's programs for 2027 entry. The research direction I want to pursue comes from the systems above: telling apart checks that genuinely guard a system from checks that pass no matter what, in tests, monitoring, and access control.
Reach me at cw.huang.work@gmail.com.
Last updated: 2026-10-07