Evan Hum

Portfolio

Here is a collection of projects I have been working on both individually and in previous positions.

TELUS Health - PS Suite (Co-op)

Imagine Communications - Content Portal (Co-op)

The Rhetoricon - GoFigure (Co-op)

Autonomous Mars Rover Robot

Pokemon Image Classifier

Piano Tiles Bot

About

I am currently in my fourth year of Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo pursuing and specialization in Artificial Intelligence! Driven by passion and a desire to grow, I'm always up for trying something new. Currently, I am looking for opportunities to gain experience within Control Systems, Machine learning, and algorithms for AIs. Some other things I often find myself involved in are sports such as hockey, baseball and volleyball, dabbling in musical instruments like the piano, guitar and ukulele, or clicking a keyboard and mouse a few too many times. Some of my more recent hobbies include digital drawing as well as video editing.

Artwork Gallery

Animated Video

In the meantime, I'll keep working on my website.

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This project was an introduction to Pytorch to teach myself the fundamentals of Deep Learning. This classifier uses a Convolutional Neural Network to break the image down into layers classify it based on the images from the training model.

For this project, a dataset from Kaggle was used containing the first 151 Pokemon with a total of 7000 images labelled with their respective names. The network used a total of 5 epochs, meaning it studied the entire dataset 5 times, and came out with a 95% confidence interval. Brand new images from Google were chosen as test subjects and the image above depicts the classifier successfully naming all 5 of the Pokemon with a variety of art styles.

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This project was an introduction to Python automation by creating a bot to play Piano Tiles! It uses basic concepts of controlling the mouse and keyboard as well as taking screenshots and analyzing the RGB form of the image. This bot is capable of clicking approximately 10 tiles/second before it becomes too fast and the delay between taking the picture and finding the tile becomes too large. One interesting note about the Piano Tiles game itself is that it will run faster or slower depending on the PC and so although I only make it to a score of around 150, on other computers this bot can make it past a score of 1000! (If you watch the demo you can see the song starts out way too fast based on the sound of the song)

From September to December of 2022, I participated in the creation of an autonomous Mars rover. The goal of this project is to design a robot capable of autonomously traversing a spiral path overcoming harsh terrain such as pits, sand, rocks and more. The design of the robot consists of a 6-wheel rocker-bogie system to enhance its ability to climb and overcome the varying levels of elevation it will face. 8 motors were attached with 6 motors used to power each of the wheels, and 2 servo motors to allow for steering of the front 2 wheels. Additionally, 3 ultrasonic sensors were implemented to allow for precise timing of the turns and path correction during the entire run.

From the mechanical design and building of the frame, to the electronics assembly of the motors, arduino and sensors, to the creation of the software algorithm to traverse the course, a wide range of expertise came into play leading to the success of this project. To see a demo of the robot in action, click the button below!

From January - May 2021 I worked with an organization within the University of Waterloo known as The Rhetoricon. The Rhetoricon research group was created to explore the ways in which rhetorical figures are used in all types of literature and languages to develop theories and truths about the way the human mind works. My role as a Web Developer was to plan and create a web-based game known as GoFigure.

The GoFigure game is a citizen science-based game focused on gathering real data about rhetorical figures through gameplay. The core functions of the game include scouting an instance, marking the instance, and getting a moderator to review the instance. In other words, players would find real world instances of rhetorical figures in books, news articles or any form of literature and then copy them into the game and highlight which components of the text resemble a certain rhetorical figure.

Throughout my 4 months, I worked on both the front and backend design of the game including creating APIs to retrieve the data inputted by a user and store it within the game's database, and creating interactive pages for the users to be able to play the game. More specifically, I worked on the login/registration page, a scouting page (inputting some text), a marking page (highlighting the inputted text) and a moderation page (approving or denying the marked text). Unfortunately, since the game was still under heavy development during my time as a co-op no demos or images could be shown here.

For a much more detailed description of my work, you can read about it here in my report.

From September - December 2021 I worked as a Full Stack Web Developer for Imagine Communications. You can find more information on what Content Portal is click the image above. In my role, I worked in both the front and back end of their services known as Versio Content Portal and Nexio Motion.

Specifically to Content Portal, I worked in an HTML and TypeScript environment to fix bugs and implement new QOL features. Some notable features I worked on was creating new shortcuts for their Preview tab to help navigate through a video clip as well as adding user logins to their automated tests which allowed for a more convenient and efficient way for developers to test their features.

For a much more detailed description of my work, you can read about it here in my report.

From May - September 2022 I worked as a Software Developer for the TELUS Health department as part of the PSS Performance team. The PS Suite is an application designed for healthcare professionals to help diagnose, book appointments, and bill patients in a much more streamlined manner. Within the performance team I worked on testing all the functions that go into the PS Suite to ensure it works efficiently under heavy loads, robustly when information is missing and correctly when adding, retrieving or removing data from the database. During my co-op, I was able to investigate over 100 functions among a variety of categories such as appointments, bills, address books, wait lists and more.

For a much more detailed description of my work, you can read about it here in my report.

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This animated video was created for the graduates of Waterloo's Chinese Christian Fellowship (UWCCF) as a farewell from the second years at the time. This video was animated using Adobe After Effects and Premiere with all of the scenes and characters drawn from a variety of members. Within this project, I participated in the drawing of the characters and was the lead animator creating many of the animations and teaching another member to help out.