Summary

Hello, my name is Eric Weng, and welcome to my personal website.

I am a new computer science graduate specializing in software engineering, cybersecurity, and computer graphics. I am proficient in numerous programming tools and techniques, and my extensive hands-on project experience—both in and out of coursework—means I excel at solving complex problems quickly adopting new ones. Besides my academic career, I have served as a tutor and sung in choir, sharpening my communication and collaboration skills in the process.

I am looking to work full-time as a software or full-stack developer in the New York Metro Area. My greatest strength is my intellectual curiosity; not content to simply accept common technologies the way they are, I set out to better understand their inner workings. Through my game engine project, I have furthered my love for tinkering and desire to own every line of code I produce. As my experiences and projects show, I will have no trouble fitting in to novel environments and helping my team tackle novel challenges. I am eager to apply strong programming and interpersonal skills to deliver impactful solutions that will benefit the lives of the public.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me at my contact details below. I would be happy to discuss how I can contribute at your organization.

Education

Master of Computer Science

• Location: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
• Dates: Aug 2025–May 2026

Coursework

• ML and Data Processing Courses: Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Signal Processing
• Software Engineering Courses: Software Analysis, Security Testing, Embedded Systems, Cloud Computing
• Theory Courses: Cyber-Physical Systems Safety, Cryptography

 Degree Requirements

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

• Location: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
• Dates: Aug 2021–May 2025
• Honors: With Highest Distinction, Dean's List
• Concentrations: Cybersecurity Focal Path

Thesis

• Technical Project: A Data-Driven Recommender for Gamified Classroom Designs
• Research Project: The Underlying Reason for Mixed Results in Gamification Studies
• Summary: Educators are exploring gamification as a strategy to motivate and engage students in classrooms and improve their grades. Despite some promising findings, most research studies yield inconclusive results and product vendors propagate misinformation. I construct a data-driven recommender tool that aggregates multiple papers to compensate for the lack of rigorous and empirical experimental design.

 Thesis Portfolio  Source Code

Coursework

• CS Core Courses: Software Engineering, Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Theory of Computation, Discrete Math
• CS Electives: Web Development, Databases, Cybersecurity, Networks, Programming Languages, Game Design, Python for Scientists and Engineers
• Math Courses: Linear Algebra, Statistics, Probability, Differential Equations, Multivariable Calculus

 Degree Requirements

Projects

Java Game Engine

• Category: Game Development, Computer Graphics
• Summary: My main personal project is a 2D Java/Kotlin game engine in LWJGL. I implemented the OpenGL rendering pipeline, physics and collision algorithms, and entity-component-system scene organization without outside libraries and purely from self-study. I also combined Java and Kotlin source code, using each language to its strengths, and organized my project into multiple modules. This project gave me valuable experience with Git version control, the Gradle build system, the JUnit testing framework, and my IDE debugger. Throughout development, I actively improved my knowledge of object-oriented programming, event-driven architecture, and software design patterns (which is evident as some of the early code contains technical debt—whoops!).

 Source Code Active Development

Whistleblower Website

• Category: Web Development, Cloud Computing
• Summary: A "whistleblower" app that allows student athletes to report physical and mental health concerns, created for my Software Engineering course semester-long project. This full-stack website integrates Django, Bootstrap, and PostgreSQL with AWS cloud storage and OAuth SSO services. Our team followed the entire software development life cycle using the agile/scrum development method. I served as my team's software architect and responded to a mid-semester requirements change. I also assisted my team's dev-ops manager in deploying project to Heroku and executing GitHub continuous integration actions.

 Source Code

Hoo's There

• Category: Web Development
• Summary: A mock social network website for UVA students (aka "Hoos") created for my Web Development course semester-long project. Uses a PHP front-controller that manages the back-end and database through asynchronous REST API calls. The front-end was created with with BootStrap, LESS, jQuery, and AJAX, and the current user's session is stored in the browser cookie.

 Source Code

Encyclosaurus

• Category: Web Development
• Summary: A full-stack online dinosaur encyclopedia with a rock formation locator created for my Databases course final project. Users may log in and suggest changes to articles, and admins can approve or reject changes. We implemented role-based access control, read-only views, triggers, and stored procedures without using Django's framework ORM. Our group also won the second-best class project (who says dinosaurs aren't cool anymore?).

 Source Code

Gamification Learning Tool

• Category: Web Development, Gamification
• Summary: For my BSCS capstone project, I constructed a simple website to teach educators about gamification in classrooms. My website allow users to enter published research papers and their experimental results into the database. Users can also construct scenarios with various desired learning outcomes. I desired an algorithm to aggregate the study data and recommend game elements to implement.

 Source Code

Personal Portfolio Website

• Category: Web Development
• Summary: You're looking at it right now! This is a simple static website that should read like a CV.

 Source Code Active Development

Cube Game

• Category: Embedded Systems, Game Design
• Summary: Video game developed for the ARM Cortex-M microcontroller, created for my Embedded Systems course final project. The app runs on a custom multi-threaded RTOS using semaphores for deadlock prevention, FIFOs for thread synchronization, and interrupts for event handling. Our group implemented drivers for UART printing, joystick input ADC, and LCD text rendering. I also wrote libraries to generate pseudorandom numbers and play sound effects and loop background music with the buzzer.

 Source Code Report Included

JSpecify/NullAway Research Project

• Category: Software Testing, Research
• Summary: The final research project for my Software Analysis course. Null safety is an important topic in Java, since Java is a highly object-oriented language and contains no good built-in features to communicate nullability. I analyzed true and false positive warnings produced by NullAway and JSpecify, two static analysis tools for Java compared to out-of-the-box IDE features. I concluded that, with proper annotation, the analyzer uncovered genuine null-pointer faults and minimized new false positives while also better documenting developer intent.

 Source Code Report Included

Fuzz4All Research Project

• Category: Cybersecurity, Research
• Summary: The final research project for my Security Testing course. Fuzz4All (Xia et al., 2024) is a universal fuzzer that uses LLMs to generate fuzzing inputs for any programming language, formal language, or complex grammar. I extend the study to use more recent models and reproduce the paper's experiments and figures. I discovered newer models (especially reasoning LLMs) achieved up to 35% less coverage than the baseline due to producing too few outputs to sufficiently cover enough paths.

 Source Code Report Included  Original Paper

Game Design Projects

• Category: Game Development
• Summary: I designed, prototyped, created, and playtested multiple games for my Game Design course. The first two were individual "Game Jams" for PICO-8 and Unity Engine, where I worked on input, collision, art, and sound. The last one was a group final project, where each member contributed equally.

 Source Code 1  Source Code 2  Source Code 3 Link TBA

Skills

Work Experience

Summer Camp Instructor (2)

• Employer: Tsinghua International School at Daoxiang Lake
• Location: Beijing, China
• Dates: Jun–Jul 2023 & 2024
• Summary: I taught introductory Python programming to students in grades 3–8 through interactive lectures and creative projects. I structured lesson plans and prepared class materials by myself, and adapted to students' linguistic preferences by instructing in both English and Mandarin Chinese.

 Website

Summer Camp Instructor (1)

• Employer: International Ivy
• Location: Morris & Essex County, NJ
• Dates: Jun–Aug 2022
• Summary: I taught engaging, hands-on STEM classes for students ages 8–14, including graphic design, engineering, and video game map-making, in small groups. I encouraged students to further pursue STEM learning and promoted critical thinking and teamwork through creative projects. I also received the "Best Instructor" award one week.

 Website

Activities

UVA University Singers

• Dates: Fall 2021–Spring 2026
• Summary: USingers is the University of Virginia's flagship choral ensemble. We sing classical and contemporary choral works, both a capella and with orchestra. Our main performances include the Family Weekend Concert, Fall Concert, Family Holiday Concert, and Spring Concert. We also perform at Convocation, UVA basketball games, and Lighting of the Lawn.
• Major Works: All-Night Vigil, Sergei Rachmaninoff; Considering Matthew Shepard, Craig Hella Johnson; Passion According To St. Luke, Ēriks Ešenvalds; Requiem, W. A. Mozart; Mass in D Minor, Antonín Dvořák
• Tours: Blue Ridge to Big Apple (Summer 2023), Ballad of the Baltics (Summer 2025)

 Website

Newark Academy Voices

• Dates: Fall 2017–Spring 2021
• Summary: Academy Voices is Newark Academy's audition choral ensemble. We perform at the Fall Concert, Spring Concert, and Cabaret.
• Positions: Bass Co-Section Leader (Fall 2019–Spring 2021)
• Major Works: Carmina Burana, Carl Orff

 Website

New Jersey Youth Chorus

• Dates: Fall 2014–Spring 2021
• Summary: NJYC is a community choir for middle- and high-school children. We perform in the Fall and Spring concerts, as well as for charity events, such as at the Goryeb Children's Hospital.
• Major Works: Carmen, Georges Bizet; Coronation Mass, W. A. Mozart; Chichester Psalms, Leonard Bernstein
• Tours: Salzburg and Vienna, Austria (Summer 2018)

 Website

Fun Facts

• Dark-Eyed Cossack Girl, solo by Leonid Kharitonov
• Dark is the Night , performance by Mark Bernes
• Horse, Lyube
• Moscow Nights, performance by Vladimir Troshin
• Pack of Cigarettes, Kino

• Americas (2): English, Haitian Creole
• Western Europe (6): French, German, Irish, Italian, Latin, Spanish
• Eastern Europe (6): Church Slavonic, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian
• Asia (4): Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin
• Middle East (2): Arabic, Hebrew
• Africa (6): Ndebele, Sotho, Swahili, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
• Oceania (1): Torres Strait Creole

Contact

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