Melinda Chang
Undergraduate Researcher Computational Journalism Lab
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelinda Chang is an interdisciplinary undergraduate researcher blending computer science with comparative literary studies, with eight years of hands-on research experience across top labs including CyLab at Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth CS, UC San Diego, and UC Berkeley. She works at the intersection of programming languages, compilers, and free software while also exploring cultural domains such as 19th–20th century European literature and Sinophone cinema, bringing a humanities-driven lens to technical problems. Her projects span programming systems, computational journalism, and cultural analytics, reflecting a rare fluency in both empirical engineering and textual interpretation. Currently a REUSE/SPUR Scholar, she pairs rigorous research methods with practical software development, and often draws on historical and cinematic perspectives to ask unconventional questions about code, data, and society.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science & Comparative Literary Studies, B.A., Computer Science & Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern UniversityCanyon Crest Academy
Github Skills (41)
javascript10
dedicated10
puzzle10
dns10
github-pages9
nodejs9
react9
subdomain9
music8
firefox8
css-library8
astrology8
typescript8
orbital-mechanics8
astronomy8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cca-igem/igem_2022
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:52 commits, 45 pushes in 21 days
melindachang/albio
Nov 2021 - Mar 2023
🛰 Astronomy package infrastructure for JavaScript
Contributions:83 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 1 year 4 months
astrologyastrophysicsjavascriptinfrastructureastropy
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