Leeze Chen

I’m Leeze Chen, a full-stack engineer, a foodie and a biophile.

I graduated from Rice University in Dec 2022 with a Master's Degree in Computer Science.

I worked as a summer software engineer intern at Rice University Office of Information Technology (OIT), prototyping React user interfaces for the largest data repository on voyage data between the 16th-19th century.

I was a teaching assistant helping the students who enrolled in COMP 311/544 Functional Programming (Racket & Haskell) in Fall 2021. Previously, I worked as a software engineer at FujiFilm from 2020 to 2021.

I graduated with a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics (double major) at the University of Arizona in 2020, the first time in 100 years, celebrate graduation in front of Old Main instead of Arizona Stadium. I worked as an undergraduate research assistant in Interdisciplinary Visual Intelligence Lab for one year. The research topic is Games that induce emotion for ToMCAT.

Outside of my work, I am passionate about Asian food (Cantonese Cuisine, Japanese Ramen, Korean BBQ) and mobile games (COC, Onmyoji). Also, I'm a Pokémon Go player (3006 7980 9435).

I'm always looking for new passions and adventures; feel free to send me a message :)

I’m best reached via email/LinkedIn. I’m always open to interesting conversations and collaboration.

Projects

Most of my technical work is on GitHub. Some of my recent projects:

Misc/CV

List 100

- Progress as of Aug 7, 2022.

  1. ✓ Have the chance to live in another country for years (U.S.)
  2. ✓ Travel to Japan (2x!)
  3. ✗ Ride a hot air balloon
  4. ✓ Build my own website
  5. ✗ Scuba diving
  6. ✗ Start a nonprofit organization
  7. ✗ Visit Hawaii
  8. ✓ Be a full-stack engineer
  9. ✓ Have my own car (Nissan)
  10. ✗ Publish an open-source package
  11. ✗ Earn more than 100 star in GitHub
  12. ✗ Create my own programming language
  13. ✗ Surfing
  14. ✗ Write a blog
  15. ✗ Eat at a 3 Michelin star restaurant
  16. ✗ See auroras (Alaska)
  17. ✓ Play in a casino (lost $30)
  18. ✗ Zero gravity
  19. ✗ Visit Googleplex
  20. ✗ Visit all Disneylands around the world (Tokyo✓)
  21. ✗ Travel around Western Europe (Austria, France, Germany, etc.)
  22. ✓ Walk on the Great Wall of China
  23. ✗ Learn Japanese
  24. ✓ Travel with friends (Las Vegas 2018, Santa Fee 2022)
  25. ✓ Shoot a gun (Tucson)
  26. ✗ Go karting
  27. ✗ Eat at an undersea restaurant
  28. ✓ Visit Boston (Boston & New York, Jun 2022)
  29. ✓ Visit Seattle (Apr 2023)
  30. ✓ Visit Miami (Dec 2023)
  31. ✗ Visit San Diego
  32. ✓ Get an offer by graduation