CATHERINE CHUNG

Software Engineering Intern

Google, Summer 2018

• Computed a ranking signal based on salient term similarity to improve the “Related Places” ranking model
• Wrote data-processing pipelines and unit tests in C++ and worked with a machine learning data analysis tool in Python (Ranklab)

Undergraduate TA, Computer Systems
[CSCI 356]

Spring 2017 - present

• Holds weekly lab sessions and office hours / grades students’ programming assignments
• Taught Intro to Programming (Spring ’17), Intro to Computer Systems (Fall ’17 + Spring ’18), and Principles of Software Development (Fall ’18)

Engineering Practicum Intern

Google, Summer 2017

• Created a UI element that educates new users about important Chrome features to increase retention
• Implemented backend logic using C++ to detect when to trigger and display the UI
• Wrote API endpoint unit tests using Google Mock/Google Test
• Developed metrics to evaluate its effectiveness and report whether users started using these features

Co-founder & Director of Logistics at AthenaHacks

Fall 2016-present

• Planned an all-female hackathon with over 400 attendees from Southern California schools
• Oversees general logistics, venue selection, hackathon branding, and food donations
• Goal is to decrease gender gap in tech and create a collaborative coding environment for women

GitHub Campus Representative

Spring 2016 - present

• Acts as a resource to improve the campus community at USC
• Represents GitHub at events, participates in content and development projects
• Planned the 2018 LA GitHub Field Day Conference

Square Code Camp

August 15 - 20 2016, New York City

• I was accepted as one of 17 females to Square's prestigious bootcamp to code, gain career insight, and develop leadership skills. Being part of such a small program, I was privileged to become close friends with each girl in the program.
• We spent our days touring Square's New York office, listening to tech talks, and learning about Ruby on Rails and web dev.

• My favorite experience was getting having lunch with a "mentor", who is one of Square's engineers. One of my daily thoughts is how to get a summer internship and I stress over that pretty often. He assured me that there's no point in living life with pressure like that. Do what you enjoy, and your life will be satisfactory.
• The main part of the program was working on a Passion Project, which was revamping the Global Women's Institute website. Their mission was to advocate and inform people about women violence and inequality, and we were able to use the Ruby on Rails knowledge that we had just learned to host our idea of a new website.

Qualcomm Women's Collegiate Conference

January 2016

• In January 2016, I was invited to a conference hosted by Qualcomm with a goal to connect women in computing and introduce them to new opportunities.
• At the conference, it was a mix of technical workshops, leadership talks, networking, and mock interviews.
• My favorite part of the program was the hackathon where we worked with middle school girls from the San Diego area to hack for "good". While it was my first time working with Arduinos, the middle school girls were already very familiar with them!

• It was a great experience meeting a community of females in tech and learning more about computer hardware and engineering, a career path I had never considered until this program.
• I am still very close with some of the girls in the program, and can't wait to work with them in industry one day!

Grace Hopper Celebration

2016, 2017 & 2018