ALVIN ZHANG
Amateur Hooligan
Alvin managed to escape North Carolina following 18 years of ostracization, but he’s happy to be here now! Alvin’s primary interest is machine learning, since it’s proven to be an unreasonably versatile at cracking traditionally difficult problems by effectively leveraging big data and computational resources. Being a very lazy person, he’d like to contribute to progress in automation, especially as it relates to folding laundry and driving cars (which he can’t do). Currently, he’s particularly interested in computer vision and reinforcement learning, and is working on projects and taking classes to support this goal.
HENDRIK R TILLMAN
"Don't tell me to calm down!"
Hailing from Sausalito, CA, Henk has always been dedicated to his education. He started programming in sixth grade, and has been working CS internships since 2012 at companies like Change.org and Ripple Labs. In his free time, Henk likes to push away his cat Trixie and pull in his dog Ava for snuggles as he watches Rick and Morty and collects memes.
J STELLA SEO
not the sharpest crayon in the tool shed
Stella has been participating in robotics competitions since she was six years old. Over the course of eight years and twelve seasons, she and her family created a robotics subculture in their hometown of Fremont, CA. In 2013, she founded a 501(c) nonprofit organization, STREAM Education Foundation, to share her love of science, technology, robotics engineering, arts, and mathematics to underserved communities in the Bay Area. When she has free time, she enjoys storming Henk’s house to cuddle with his pets, as well as infiltrating Alvin’s home to eat all of his Oreos.
ABOUT US
The Goons Behind The Three Little Turtlebots
Three idiots walk into a robotics course with little background knowledge. Chaos ensues.
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This project was put together by three sophomores at UC Berkeley who spent their freshman year together in Foothill. They spend their free time drinking boba and poking each other anyway, so this project was a good chance to do something more productive together. But as friends would, they had a lot of fun with it.