passionate about ai fairness and privacy, healthcare, education, and the arts—and finding ways to innovate at their intersections. if you'd like to talk, reach out at catherinehuang [at] college.harvard.edu :)
about me
📚👩🏻💻☕️currently:
- conducting research on differentially private generative models and privacy-preserving synthetic genomes @ harvard trustworthy ai lab
- serving on the teaching staff @ harvard department of statistics
- leading operations @ harvard undergraduate data analytics group
- incoming quant trading intern @ imc, peer mentor @ harvard women in cs
- refined nlp ranking algorithms and data pipelines as a swe intern @ google assistant
- built full-stack dashboard to track on-advice speech processing model rollout progress as a step intern @ google speech integration team
- ux designer and swe @ harvard tech for social good, publicity director @ group for undergraduates in statistics at harvard, insight @ jane street, ux designer @ datamatch, ai research fellow @ r42 institute, research @ harvard department of earth and planetary sciences, data journalist and internal relations director @ harvard open data project
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currently:
- leading and performing with the harvard college piano society as co-president
- organizing a benefit concert for ukraine, a collaboration across multiple musical groups at harvard
- practicing, rehearsing, and performing chamber music through harvard's chamber music performance class
- dancing with the harvard asian-american dance troupe
- founded and directed harmonies of pianists everywhere (H.O.P.E.), a global network of 250+ young pianists devoted to showcasing the unifying and transcendent power of classical music through collaborative artistic and educational projects
- performed as piano soloist with orchestras and in solo recitals and music festivals across the US
- organized a benefit concert aiding victims of california wildfires
- led a program for high school students to teach free keyboard lessons to low-income, at-risk youth in south bay area underprivileged districts
- danced ballet, chinese traditional, and contemporary dance with china dance and arts' youth troupe
projects
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blap: a differentially private counting bloom filter
dec 2022 | computer science 222 final project
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note-worthy audio features in song popularity
dec 2022 | statistics 139 final project
pdf
privacy and utility in differentially private generative adversarial networks: a medical records case study
may 2022 | computer science 208 final project
pdf
code
extending matching algorithms in dating apps to non-binary and non-heterosexual users: many-sided matching markets through the stable roommates problem
dec 2021 | computer science 136 final project
pdf
musicmatch: using spotify api and machine learning for audio feature visualizations and song recommendations
dec 2021 | gened 1080 final project
pdf
code
how does harvard’s on-campus dining protocol fare during the pandemic? an analysis of two resource management systems
dec 2021 | harvard open data project
article
girls' angle mentorship information site
dec 2020 | compsci 50 final project
live demonstration
the show must go on: covid-19's impacts on the performing arts
aug 2020 | harvard college economics review
article
"cantabile!" music notation software
jul 2020 |
code
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world of color simulation
jul 2020 |
code
play around!
piano performance highlights
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chopin: fantasy in f minor, op. 49
dec 2022 | harvard college piano society winter 2022 recital | harvard art museums
program
brahms: piano quintet in f minor, op. 34
may 2022 | music 189r final performance | paine hall, harvard department of music
video
chopin: scherzo no. 4 in e major, op. 54
may 2022 | harvard college piano society spring 2022 recital | mather house junior common room
program
chopin: sonata no. 3 in b minor, op. 58
mar 2022 | solo recital | lowell house junior common room
video
program
beethoven: sonata no. 31 in a-flat major, op. 110 (i. moderato cantabile molto espressivo)
mar 2022 | solo recital | lowell house junior common room
video
program
schumann: piano quartet in e-flat major, op. 47
dec 2021 | music 189r final performance | paine hall, harvard department of music
video
chopin: nocturne in c minor, op. 48
mar 2021 | harvard college piano society chopin concert | all over the world, zoom
program
pre-college performance highlights
brahms: piano quartet no. 1 in g minor, op. 25 (iv. rondo alla zingarese) | national youngarts week | video
rachmaninoff: rhapsody on a theme of paganini, op. 43 | with california youth symphony | video
beethoven: concerto no. 4 in g major, op. 58 (i. allegro moderato) | with golden state youth orchestra | video
hilton head international piano competition | program | round 1 performance | round 2 performance
bosendorfer and yamaha usasu international piano competition | semi-final round performance | final round performance
in the press
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creating a web app to share promising practices in the child welfare space
jul 2021 | harvard tech for social good on medium |
article
harvard piano society returns with another recital
apr 2021 | the harvard crimson | author: israel a. perez |
article
despite the pandemic, young musicians in the bay area attempt to keep the spirit of classical music alive
jul 2020 | the stanford daily | author: yejin song |
article
60 young artists have been nominated for 2020 u.s. presidential scholars in the arts
jan 2020 | broadway world miami | author: chloe rabinowitz |
press release
music in the mountains celebrate yearly debut with california youth symphony
feb 2019 | the union | authors: ncs import |
article
students perform in wildfires benefit concert
dec 2018 | the epic (lynbrook high school newspaper) | author: audrey wong |
article
lee, huang, and wu take top honors in piano competition
jul 2018 | lee university |
press release
on my mind
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excited about
ai for social good, explainable and fair ml, edtech and ai empathy startups, big data algorithms, mechanism design
curious about
computational social choice, nlp, bioinformatics, product management, tech policy and entrepreneurship, behavioral and development economics, cognitive and social psychology
talk to me about
music pedagogy and performance, broadway musicals, poetry, learning new languages
currently reading
minor feelings by cathy park hong
surprised by joy by c.s. lewis
anna karenina by leo tolstoy