Paolo Wang

I'm Paolo, a student majoring in Artificial Intelligence at Purdue University. My current main interests are computer vision and adversarial machine learning, as well as the applications of AI in music. I'm currently leading a research team developing a real-time posture evaluation mobile app for cellists using computer vision and assisting with research on adversarial machine learning with a PHD candidate at Purdue. In my free time, I enjoy practicing the piano, reading, and occasionally hooping.

Work

Research Team Lead Purdue AIM

Leading team of 10 for AI4Musicians Evaluator project, working under Prof. Yung Hsiang Lu (ECE) and Prof. Yeon Ji Yun (Music) to build a real-time, on-device mobile app for cellist posture evaluation.. Trained, finetuned, and optimized YOLOv11 model through input size reduction, Pytorch to TFLite conversion, and FP16 quantization (overall 4x reduction in inference time). Led team in transition from cloud computing to on-device inference (2x reduction in frame processing latency)

June 2025 - Present

Research Intern UC Santa Cruz

Analyzed misinformation diffusion on social media with 3 other interns. Collected and classified ~200 posts from TikTok and Twitter, studied distribution patterns across platforms.

Summer 2023

Teaching Assistant Saratoga High School

TA for AP Physics 1&2. Ran labs, answered questions, graded assignments.

2023 - 2024

Research

Adversarial Machine Learning

Currently working with a PHD candidate at Purdue to research the adversarial machine learning.

2025

Projects

Image Generation VAE

Built variational autoencoders to generate images of hands and abstract paintings. Trained on 10k and 18k image datasets using Tensorflow.

Jan - Aug 2023

Music Generation LSTM

Trained an LSTM to generate piano music from 1k+ MIDI files using Keras.

Aug - Oct 2022

Painting Classifier

CNN to classify paintings by seven artists. Organized 2k labeled images.

Jan - Mar 2022

Education

Purdue University

BS in Artificial Intelligence / GPA: 3.96

Relevant: Linear Algebra, AI Basics, Probability

Skills: Python (PyTorch, TensorFlow), Java, C++, Kotlin

Expected May 2027

Saratoga High School

2020-2024

Misc

Piano

Certificate of Merit Level 9

CM Festival 2020, 2021

Track & Field

High School Varsity Team

2022-2023

Languages

English (Native)

Mandarin (Native)