Undergraduate Research Assistant (Engineered Microstructures And Radiation Effects Laboratory)
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Vinson Zheng is an Engineering Science student at Stony Brook University advancing into an accelerated master’s program with a focus on materials science, ceramics, and high-temperature materials for fusion reactors. He combines hands-on materials processing and microstructural characterization in EMREL with applied R&D experience from DARPA/DoD projects at Physical Sciences Inc. and field compliance work in environmental safety, giving him a rare blend of lab-scale materials expertise and real-world regulatory practice. Vinson also contributes to machine learning projects on GitHub—working on semantic segmentation training and reproducibility—which complements his experimental work with data-driven analysis skills. A two-time NASA L’SPACE participant, he has practical systems-level experience in mission concept and thermal engineering, and has helped secure competitive funding for team proposals.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Valley Stream Central High School
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Engineering Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Engineering Science at Stony Brook University
Semantic Segmentation Suite in TensorFlow. Implement, train, and test new Semantic Segmentation models easily!
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Vinson primarily contributed to the training and evaluation process of semantic segmentation models within the TensorFlow framework. Their commits focused on correcting typos, improving validation image handling, and merging updates from the upstream repository. The changes include code adjustments for managing validation images, setting random seeds for reproducibility, and calculating training time.
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Vinson Zheng - Undergraduate Research Assistant (Engineered Microstructures And Radiation Effects Laboratory)