Peter Guan

Transfer-track computer science student with coursework in C++ programming and mathematics foundations. Active member of the CS Club, AGS Honor Society Board, and organizer in the local hackathon community.

Completed two years of rigorous computer science training, including software engineering, data structures & algorithms, artificial intelligence, and systems-oriented problem solving.

Explored engineering and finance before pivoting fully into computer science.
Award: International School Leaver Scholarship (2022).

• Built and launched Veru, an AI citation auditing platform that cross-references generated academic claims against 250M+ papers through OpenAlex and related scholarly sources.
• Engineered a production full-stack system with Next.js 14 and FastAPI, integrating Gemini 2.5 Flash for high-speed semantic extraction and verification workflows.
• Designed a multi-layer validation pipeline combining OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and Google Grounding to improve precision in hallucination detection and citation recovery.
• Deployed to production on Vercel and Render, serving 100+ users in the first week and validating demand for an AI-native academic integrity tool.

• Leading an HCI research initiative investigating how eXplainable AI (XAI) affects user trust, empathy, and perceived agency in emotional support LLM interactions.
• Designed and built a custom evaluation platform for controlled A/B testing between baseline chatbots and models augmented with sentiment analysis and transparency mechanisms.
• Collected and analyzed mixed-method evidence across quantitative and qualitative dimensions to study how explanation and user correction influence interaction outcomes.
• Preparing a peer-reviewed publication as sole author based on the study findings and experimental system.

• Co-organizing a 100+ participant hackathon, managing applications, judging workflows, and participant operations end-to-end.
• Designed and built a full-stack event infrastructure system including application pipeline, QR-based check-in, and real-time team formation tools.
• Developed operational tooling to streamline communication, onboarding, and judging coordination across participants and organizers.

• Led development and maintenance of the organization website, supporting student engagement and event visibility.
• Implemented updates and feature improvements to improve usability, performance, and content delivery.
• Collaborated with student leadership to align digital presence with organizational goals and outreach initiatives.

• Led a 4-person team to build a real-time spatial perception system designed to augment independence for visually impaired users.
• Developed the iOS app in Swift using ARKit and CoreML YOLOv8 for low-latency scene understanding and object detection.
• Engineered a lightweight Python backend for state synchronization and audio synthesis, integrating Gemini and ElevenLabs for multimodal voice feedback.

• Built an end-to-end AI marketing campaign generator that creates logos, banners, jingles, voiceovers, and video ads from a single prompt.
• Designed an asynchronous multi-stage generation pipeline coordinating 5+ Gemini models to enable parallel asset production and orchestration.
• Implemented a browser-first workflow with IndexedDB persistence and FFmpeg WASM-based client-side media merging for fully in-browser campaign assembly.

• Led backend development for a real-time conversational fact-checking assistant that verifies spoken claims during live interaction.
• Integrated Deepgram ASR and Perplexity through WebSockets to support low-latency transcription, retrieval, and grounded response delivery.
• Standardized communication between the Python backend and React frontend to support responsive real-time alerts and speech-driven UX.
• Won Best AI/ML Award for technical complexity and product viability.

• Designed a custom academic markup language and editing environment to combine Markdown-like simplicity with structured publishing workflows.
• Built the compiler frontend with ANTLR4, using AST traversal and the Visitor pattern to transform source documents into publishable intermediate representations.
• Developed the IDE architecture around robust state management and extensible tooling for document authoring, preview, and future publishing pipelines.