Lucas Zhao

Lucas Zhao

Machine Learning @ Yale

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Projects

A collection of things I've built, from research tools to weekend experiments.

Neural Instinct

Building Nerve, a proactive AI agent that anticipates user needs — surfacing price drops, scheduling conflicts, and contextual suggestions with persistent cross-session memory.

AI Agent Chrome Extension WebGPU TypeScript
Live Demo

MIT iQuHack Quantum Hackathon

Led team to build an ML system predicting optimal quantum circuit simulation parameters, achieving 85% accuracy and 46-51% performance gains over baseline.

Quantum Computing Machine Learning Python LightGBM
Live Demo Source

Yalie Search

AI-powered student directory with multimodal search — combining CLIP, semantic text, and GPT-powered query expansion across 6,000+ Yale students with 2-3x retrieval accuracy.

Machine Learning Python Next.js CLIP FastAPI
Live Demo Source

Personal Website

This very website! Built with Astro, Tailwind CSS, and deployed on Vercel.

Astro TypeScript Tailwind
Source

Patented Beekeeping Devices

Co-designed and manufactured a high-efficiency radial honey extractor and multifunctional pollen collector, patented at CNIPA and now mass-produced.

Hardware Patent Agriculture

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