I've been to 8 hackathons (and counting!). Each one has proven to me that my team and I have the ability to create awesome things. We've made:

• a full-body virtual reality dodgeball game
• a walking implementation for virtual reality
• an automated thermal cameraman
• a voice-controlled music queuer
• a mind-controlled car
• a heart rate-based first-person shooter
• an augmented reality search application
• an archery scoring app

All of these projects can be found on my Devpost, and
most of the code can be viewed on my Github.

• UCLA Student Entrepreneurship Speaker Panel
  
  
  • University of California, Los Angeles
    Startup UCLA (May 2018)
    Panelists: Jamika Martins (ROSEN Skincare), Vikash Singh (Project DataREACH), Erica Nagase (TutorFly), Alvin Vuong (Escality), Tim Connors (GradStreet)
    
    
• To Infinity and Beyond: Career Panel
  
  
  • University of California, Los Angeles
    UCLA Geek Week MegaConvention (Apr 2018)
    Panelists: Alvin Vuong (Escality, LLC.), Tara Prescott (UCLA Writing Programs Faculty), Amber West (UCLA Writing Programs Faculty), Agustin Rios (UCLA School of Dentistry Content Creator)
    
    
• Cognitive Science Industry Career Panel
  
  
  • University of California, Los Angeles
    Cognitive Science Student Association Meeting (May 2017 & Jan 2018)
    Panelists: Jungsu Pak, Kyle Wilcots, Andrew Lee, and Alvin Vuong (2017)
                    Gina Kim, Marshall Briggs, and Alvin Vuong (2018)
    
    
• Fireside Chat: Startups, Pitching, and Ideas
  
  
  • Deer Valley High School, Antioch, CA
    Virtual Enterprise, Business-Tech Academy (2017)
    
    
• Q & A about College, Life, and the Future
  
  
  • Deer Valley High School, Antioch, CA
    Calculus, Physics, and Computer Science Classes (2017)
    
    
• The Future of VR/AR: A Hacker's Perspective
  
  
  • University of California, Los Angeles
    3rd Annual Cognitive Science Conference
    The Future of Virtual & Augmented Reality: Mind, Medicine, & Media (2016)
    
    
• CS is Cool: Technology & Problem Solving
  
  
  • Deer Valley High School, Antioch, CA
    Robotics and Physics Classes, ACE Academy (2016)
    
    
• CS is Cool: A Hacker's Life Beyond High School
  
  
  • Deer Valley High School, Antioch, CA
    Academic Challenge and Enrichment (ACE) Academy (2015)
    
    

On top of hackathons, I also have worked on many interesting class projects as well:

• CS 130: Software Engineering (UML)
  
  
  • Project FALL: VR Skydiving Simulator (Senior Capstone Project)
    
    
  • Demo Video
    
    
  • Presentation 3
    
    
  • Presentation 2
    
    
  • Presentation 1
  
  
• CS 118: Computer Network Fundamentals (C++)
  
  
  • Project Riddikulus: Router implementation
    
    
  • Project Confundo: UDP connection establishment and congestion control
    
    
  • Project Accio: simple TCP file transfer
  
  
• Psych 186B: Neural Networks (Matlab/Octave, Python)
  
  
  • Final Project: RNN Music Composer (class slides)
    
    
  • feed-forward neural network simulation
    
    
  • feature classification via linear association
    
    
  • lateral inhibition models
    
    
  • Widrow-Hoff (least means squares) error correction algorithm
    
    
  • linear associator models for associative memory
    
    
  • random vector generation and stimuli representation
  
  
• CS 170A: Mathematical Modeling Methods for Computer Science (Matlab/Octave)
  
  
  • Final Project: Brain Network Connectivity and Intelligence
    
    
  • Income tax analysis, earthquake frequency analysis, Newton's method, regularized optimization in ridge regression
    
    
  • Musical analysis via FFT, sunspot frequency analysis, Photoshop detector
    
    
  • Smiling/unusual face analysis and classification via eigenfaces, image compression
    
    
  • Image color inversion and conversion to greyscale, global temperature analysis
  
  
• CS 145: Data Mining (Python)
  
  
  • Final Project: Semi-Supervised Fuzzy K-Means Clustering
  
  
• CM 124: Computational Genetics (Python, R)
  
  
  • Final Project: Haplotype Assembly
    
    
  • Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) analysis using association statistics/power and Bonferroni correction to find significant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within a given genome
  
  
• CS M152A: Digital Design Laboratory (Verilog)
  
  
  • FPGA Blackjack: low-level game logic, pseudorandom number generator, linear feedback shift registers, game state handling
    
    
  • Stopwatch implementation: custom clocks, debouncers, pause/reset functionality, 7-segment display control
    
    
  • Combinatorial circuit design, prototyping, implementation, and simulation testing for a two's complement linear encoding to floating point representation converter
    
    
  • Use of the Xilinx ISE, ISim, and iMPACT interface to modify and test Verilog code onboard a Nexys3 FPGA board
  
  
• CS 188: Advanced Game Development for Virtual Reality (Blueprint, C++)
  
  
  • VR puzzle game prototype with Leap Motion & Oculus Rift using Unreal Engine 4
  
  
• CS 161: Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (Lisp)
  
  
  • N-Queens solver
  • Sokoban solver
  • constraint satisfaction problems
  • propositional and first-order logic
  • decision trees and Bayesian networks
  • neural networks
  
  
• CS 111: Operating Systems (C)
  
  
  • peer-to-peer network client and server attack & defense
  • Linux file system driver
  • ramdisk Linux kernel module
  • parallelized shell prototype
  
  
• CS 131: Programming Languages (OCaml, Prolog, Java, Scheme, Python)
  
  
  • containerization of Twisted Places proxy herd using Docker
  • asynchronous server herd prototype for the Google Places API using Twisted
  • matcher for DNA patterns in Scheme
  • benchmarking different implementations of Java parallelization models
  • KenKen solver in Prolog
  • manipulating context-free grammars in OCaml
  
  
• CS 35L: Software Construction Laboratory (Shell, Bash, C, Python)
  
  
  • presentation about brain-computer interfaces
  • benchmarking multithreaded programs
  • crashing a server using buffer overrun exploit
  • using system calls
  • simple key cryptography
  • using the GNU debugger
  • using Git as a version control system
  • simple Python scripting
  • shell/bash scripting & using regular expressions
  • familiarization with the Linux command-line environment
  
  
• CS 33: Intro to Computer Organization (C)
  
  
  • using OpenMP to optimize and parallelize code
  • exploiting a program using buffer overflow
  • using GDB and objdump to "defuse binary bombs"
  • manipulating bit-level representations of integers
  
  
• CS 32: Intro to Computer Science 2 (C++)
  
  
  • database using multiple-key maps implemented with a binary search tree
  • implementation of a bomberman-style game
  
  
• CS 31: Intro to Computer Science 1 (C++)
  
  
  • simple ASCII "zombie extermination" game
  • basic word deduction game
  • rudimentary spam checker