About

Howard Huang

Changemaker & Entrepreneur

Hi! I'm Howard Huang a Freshman at UCLA pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science. I'm particularly interested in the intersection of business, artificial intelligence, and the pharmaceutical industry. I am a builder and an entrepreneur, and I'm always looking for cool ideas and startups to work on! Feel free to reach out!

Million App Downloads

Projects

Dollars Raised

Awards

Skills

Firebase

Digital Ocean

Amazon Web Services

Flask

SQL

Matlab

Tensorflow

Android Studio

Xcode

Swift

Npm

Anaconda

Awards

My Awards

1st Place DeepRacer Menlo Park Competition

Amazon Web Services Deepracer

18th Place out of 103 teams

Stanford ProCo Advanced Division

Silver Division Programmer

USA Computing Olympiad

Archiscape: 1st Place Overall

LA Hacks 2020, Southern California’s largest collegiate hackathon. Featured in CBS News, The "UCLA Newsroom, Build for COVID-19, Scommerce, and The Saratoga Falcon

Ugli: Most Socially Impactful, 2nd Most Innovative, 2nd Most Functional & Feasible, and Top 5 Pitch

Hack the Helyx 2020

Top 8 teams out of 1000+ applicants from 25+ countries

SparkTeen Accelerator, S20 Batch. Interviewed by VCs from Y-Combinator and Techstars.

Ugli: Best Sustainability Hack

First Place in the Environmental Sustainability Category at TitanHacks 2020

Topdoc: 3rd Place Overall

Quest Hacks 2019

Bookworm: 1st Place Overall

Mission Hacks 2019

ForgetMeNot: 3rd Place Overall

Omni Hacks 2019

INFINITE RECHARGE Carbon Division Finalist 2021

FIRST Robotics Competition

INFINITE RECHARGE FRC Excellence in Engineering Award Winner 2021

FIRST Robotics Competition

FRC Chezy Champs Semifinalist 2019

Chezy Champs Offseason

FRC Cal Games 2nd Place 2019

Cal Games Offseason

Silicon Division Semifinalist at FTC NorCal Regional Championships 2019

FIRST Tech Challenge

Gold Division Finalist at FTC NorCal Regional Championships 2018

FIRST Tech Challenge

Lincoln Douglas 5th Place Speaker Award

State Championships 2018

Lincoln Douglas Quarterfinalist

State Championships 2018

Projects

My Projects

Autolatex Equations

Archiscape

Topdoc

Ugli

ForgetMeNot

Bookworm

Harvest

Bikehail

Universal Speech

Rize

Deepracer

2021 FRC Robot 'Guppy'

2020 FRC Robot

2019 FTC Robot

Self Driving Car

Research

ASDRP Deep Learning Drug Discovery

Downing and Njoo Lab

Worked on Pharmacaphore-based High Throughput Virtual Screening (HTVS) through the use of virtual chemical libraries to linearize drug discovery and screen protein compounds for chemical activity and bonding. Used SMILES and Mordred to generate molecular descriptors. Introduced to ORCA, Chimera, and Autodock Vina for molecular docking. Utilized Autoencoders and Gaussian Mixture Models to rank synthetic accessibility. Designed Generative Adversarial Networks to simulate possible protein drug candidates. Abstract accepted by Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR). Paper in review by the 2021 IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM).

Classes taken: CHEM 201 Principles of Organic Chemistry, CHEM 121, Introduction to Computational Chemistry, CHEM 250 Advanced Topics in Drug Design and Medicinal Chemistry, BIOL 135 Principles of Biochemistry

Research

UMass Amherst Riley Lab Antibiotic Resistance

Professor Margaret Riley

Worked as a lab intern in the Riley Lab conducting antibiotic resistance research on bacteriocins. Formulated drug cocktails to treat plant pathogens Fireblight, Bacterial Wilt, and Backterial Speck. Screened bacterial strains using micropipetting techniques. Plotted phylogenetic trees for evolutionary relationships. Performed Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (MICs) to test for drug concentrations. Purified and extracted bacteriocin proteins in crude lysates.

Business

Entrepreneurship

EHL Business Case Competition

From Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland School of Hospitality and Management. Learned from speakers in the industry about Luxury Brands, Consultancy, Marketing, and the Experience Economy. Created business case on Elysium, a hotel business model operating on foldable hotel room complexes, that will be at the forefront of trendsetting in the hospitality industry.

Ugli Startup

Chief Financial Officer

For-Profit

Ugli is a marketplace connecting farmers with local restaurant owners to sell off imperfect produce at a reduced price. Talked to consultants, angel investors, and interviewers from incubators including Y-Combinator. Won Top 9 at SparkTeen Incubator Challenge out of over 100 teams worldwide.

TopDoc

Co-Founder

501c(3) Nonprofit

Incorporated as a 501c(3) nonprofit with the state of California. Topdoc is a telehealth platform that offers free artificial intelligence powered medical imaging screens for tuberculosis, malaria, gluacoma, brain tumors, and skin cancer. Reached out to homeless shelters in San Jose and a healthcare clinic in Bangladesh.

VEX Robotics

Founder & Former President

Club and Official Elective

Founded the VEX Robotics Club with over 100 members. Worked extensively with the Parent Teacher Association to secure funding. Arranged outreach events and took the team to local competitions. Secured corporate sponsors and raised enough money to purchase the field, sponsor a construction project to expand the robotics room, and stock the school makerspace with machine tools. Managed inventory and marketing for the club. Served as a volunteer, coach, and scrimmage referee. In high school, came back to mentor and grow the club. In just 3 years, we were able to send 3 teams to worlds and win the California State Championships. Now the club is an official school elective.

  • Members: 100+
  • VEX Teams: 7
  • VEX California State Champs: 1
  • VEX World Qualifiers: 3

TogaHacks

Executive Director

Organized South Bay High School hackathon. Made sponsor calls, managed financials, planned operations, and signed binding legal contracts. Raised over $7000 in corporate sponsorship from our 14 sponsors.

Junior Achievement & Deloitte

Marketing

Startup

Competed in annual Junior Achievement Entrepreneurship Summit. Spent 3 months under the mentorship of Deloitte employees to build a business startup called BambooU that sold eco-friendly wooden utensils to customers like Pressed Juicery in Los Gatos. Learned about supply chain and branding.

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