i'm davis d. tran, an undergraduate at the university of pennsylvania.
i study CS in the school of engineering at penn and am currently concentrating in artificial intelligence and minoring in mathematics and engineering entrepreneurship.
i am a FGLI student and am involved in organizations that help provide resources and guidance to other FGLI students.
i love to teach! i am a head teaching assistant for CIS1100, an introductory java programming course.
aside from academics, i really enjoy drumming and playing volleyball in school, i am heavily involved in the API (asian pacific islander) space and contributed and participated in multiple organizations.
if you are looking to contact me for whatever reason, feel free to email me at davisdt@seas.upenn.edu!
• Data Structures & Algorithms
• Scalable & Cloud Computing
• Operating Systems
• Artificial Intelligence
• Database & Info Systems
• Android Mobile App Development
• Computer Architecture
• Mathematical Foundations of CS
• Market and Social Systems on the Internet
• Linear Algebra & Differential Equations
• PEER Mentoring Program (Co-Chair; Social Chair; Mentor)
• Vietnamese Student Assocation (Family Group Leader)
• Oracle Senior Honor Society (Social Chair)
• Penn Band (Snare Drummer)
• Computer Science Society (Exec. Board)
• FGLI in Technology and Engineering (Exec. Board)
• CIS Department (Head Teaching Assistant)
• NETS, OIDD Department (Teaching Assistant)
Java
Python
Golang
Ruby on Rails
JavaScript
TypeScript
MongoDB
OCaml
HTML
CSS
C
Kotlin
MATLAB
Flutter
React.js
Redux.js
Node.js
Express.js
jQuery
Django
Kubernetes
Git
SQL
Bootstrap
Firebase
Spark
English
Vietnamese
I worked on the Options Platform team and collaborated very closely with stakeholders to make improvements to a platform frequently used day-to-day. I used Python, Django, React, Kubernetes, and Docker!
I teach computer science principles and expose students in Mississippi to the software engineering industry. Here, I hope to inspire and facilitate a great learning environment. I decided to get involved with the program as I align heavily with the mission - I wish I had something similar to this growing up with my limited resources.
I interned on the Service and Tenant Management Team. I learned and used Redux, Redux, and TypeScript to develop a dashboard for a supervision service for Workday users. I also spearheaded the design of the JSON response schema and continued to update it along UI decisions with personal and external feedback from multiple teams and users.
I researched with 2 professors from the Computer Science department in a team of 5 to explore anomaly detection in social networks, especially ones that may be represented as directed hypergraphs. I used Python extensively for data science related tasks and visualizations.
I was accepted as a fellow out of a 3% pool of roughly 2880 applicants and collaborated in a team of 5 as a backend developer for Plant Jammer.
I served as a TA for an intensive summer engineering academy at Penn for a network science course. I held daily office hour sessions for 40 students and helped with social networks and graph theory concepts, MATLAB coding, and homework guidance.
I worked at a biotech startup focused on providing disease test kits. I was one in a team of 3 software engineers/full stack developers under the supervision of a scrum master in an Agile environment. I used Ruby on Rails to develop the web applications for the company and used MySQL to store data.
I am working as a teaching assistant for an introductory Java programming course at Penn with a roster of roughly 350 students. I hold weekly office hour sessions and help students with computer science concepts, debugging, and homework assignments. I now help develop the course infrastructure with the professors and assist in hiring and managing the entire course staff of TAs.
I was a coding instructor for schools around Philly for an academic initiative that strives to make a computer science education more accessible to all students. I taught students how to code in JavaScript and explained the fundamentals of computer science.
I was an early board member for First-Generation Low-Income in Technology and Engineering. As a FGLI student myself, I wanted to take part in uplifting the community that I felt most aligned with.
I served on the board for an organization at Penn that aims to build a community for computer science undergraduates socially and professionally. I helped plan events in the most financially sound way while also optimizing impact.
I was one of few scholar recipients for Governor's STEM Scholars and became a computational researcher at New Jersey City University. My project focused on finding correlations/relations between computational chemical methods.