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Zhongquan (Peter) Cheng — Software engineer & researcher

Building reliable backends and applied ML

petercheng.dev  ·  LinkedIn  ·  Email  ·  Résumé

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§ 00 / About

I build backend systems and ML pipelines at the intersection of reliable engineering and applied research: distributed request pipelines and LLM infrastructure at Undergraduation.com, sensor-based depression detection at Syracuse, and medical-imaging segmentation at WashU’s AI for Health Institute.

A habit of picking up the hard part of the stack — and then finishing it.

§ 01 / Experience

Impact metrics: 99.9% uptime, −40% query load, 87% IMU accuracy, 10k+ CV frames


01 Backend Intern · Undergraduation.com

  • Distributed SSE + serverless request pipeline — 50+ concurrent users, zero blocking
  • Fault-tolerant LLM gateway with failover & latency-based A/B routing — 99.9% uptime
  • PostgreSQL composite-key caching — −40% redundant queries
  • Row-Level Security + middleware — zero cross-tenant leakage on vector search

02 Computer Vision Researcher · AI for Health Institute

  • Meta Sapien + OpenCV pipeline — segmentation masks across 10,000+ clinical frames
  • FFmpeg high-speed extraction — −60% preprocessing latency on 50+ hrs of footage
  • Dynamic exposure workflow — +80% human detection in low-light scenes

03 Research Assistant · Salekin Lab

  • Android multi-modal IMU collection framework (Kotlin, Factory pattern)
  • Dockerized ML training — environment setup 2 hrs → 5 min
  • Hybrid CNN-LSTM on high-frequency IMU — 87% depression-biomarker accuracy
  • HIPAA-aligned data handling with clinical partners

04 Data Science Intern · Asia Pulp & Paper

  • XGBoost sales forecasting with lag features — 92% prediction accuracy
  • Automated ETL against the data warehouse — −40% extraction latency
  • High-dimensional transaction analysis for Shanghai-region strategy

§ 02 / Selected work

Projects: Patient Vision, Course Scheduler, ATS Tracker, IMU Collector, Library VR

# Project Stack
01 Patient-Monitoring Vision Pipeline — overhead clinical video, sequence-error detection Python · PyTorch · Meta Sapien · OpenCV · FFmpeg
02 Engineering Course Scheduler — prereq-aware, conflict-free timetables React · Node.js · AWS
03 ATS — Application Tracker — Gmail ingestion + AI triage · 2nd place, Syracuse Tech Challenge React · Node · PostgreSQL · Gmail API
04 IMU Depression-Signal Collector — scheduled multi-modal sensing for Salekin Lab Android · Kotlin · Signal Processing
05 Library VR — gesture-driven campus library onboarding Unity · C# · VR

§ 03 / Studies & stack

Education: WashU M.S. CS · Syracuse B.S. CS


Competencies: languages, ML, systems

§ 04 / Elsewhere

petercheng.dev  ·  GitHub  ·  LinkedIn  ·  Email  ·  Résumé

petercheng.dev — Open to Summer 2026

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