Toronto
Ben Zhou
Third-year Computer Science and Finance/Economics student at the University of Toronto. Builds software, mostly at hackathons, and takes photographs.
- Emailbenz.zhou@mail.utoronto.ca
- Personalme@thebenzhou.com
- Phone778-680-9189
- LinkedInin/-ben-zhou-
- GitHubbenz16107
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- Instagram@_ben_zhou_
About
- Education
- University of Toronto, St. George
B.Sc. Computer Science and Finance/Economics, expected June 2028 - Experience
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Software Engineer, StealthMay 2026 to present · Toronto
Launching soon.
Sponsorship Coordinator, Hack the ValleyMar 2026 to present · Toronto
Director of Technology, CUSEC (Canadian University Software Engineering Conference)Mar 2026 to present
Research and Development Manager, Rotman Commerce FinTech AssociationMar 2026 to present · Toronto
Marketing Manager, Rotman Commerce Venture Capital GroupMar 2026 to present · Toronto
Designed and built rcventure.ca. - Research
Context-Based Captioning System, UofT Trustworthy Machine IntelligenceSept 2025 to Apr 2026 Fine-tuned Whisper for lecture speech recognition, producing real-time captions and corrected transcripts.
- Hackathons
11 wins2 organized15+ attended
- Photography
- Shoots Sony: cities, water, cars, and the people in them. Took Photography 11 and 12 in high school, and made a short film (2023) and a music video (2024). See the photographs.
- Languages
- English and Mandarin Chinese (native), French (limited)
- Tools
- Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Dart, Java, C++, SQL, Next.js, React, Node.js, Django, FastAPI, Flutter, Tailwind, PyTorch, Hugging Face, OpenCV, Git, GitHub, Docker, Postgres, Solana, Unity, Arduino, NVIDIA Jetson, ROS, SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro
Projects
- UofTime
A UofT timetable builder: pick sections on a week grid, see the walk between classes, subscribe from your calendar. - Pixie
An insurance risk engine where agents investigate and code computes every number. - Blad
An iPad note-taking app for lectures where notes stay ordinary files in a folder you pick. - rcventure.ca
The website for RCVC, the UofT venture capital club he markets. - tradex
A marketplace where AI agents pay each other per call in USDC on Solana. - MarketMaker
A desktop paper-trading app for US stocks. - canvas-companion
Mirrors his UofT Quercus courses to disk, twice a day. - Keypace
A native Mac typing-speed test, on the Mac App Store. - Cracked City
Road-damage triage for Toronto: what to fix first, and what it costs. - AI Dance Generator
Upload a song, get a stick-figure dance synced to it, exported for TikTok. - ConfidensAI
A pay-per-use AI agent on GOAT Network mainnet. - Tidal Wordle
Competitive beach Wordle with a 3D wave scene driven by real tide data. - Artifex
Product idea to spec, brand research, concept images, then real 3D meshes. - OOPS
Tactical route-risk guidance built from flight telemetry and map intelligence. - Eco-Pulse
Urban heat and tree-planting planner for Montreal. - Packwise
AI packing companion for iOS and Android. - Pentagon
Supply-chain risk platform built around explainable agent traces. - DataFrame
A node canvas where every node runs real Python in your browser. - Nova
An in-room hotel voice concierge. - RouteWatch
Tracks how long a drive actually takes over weeks. - BlindSpot
Walking navigation for blind and low-vision users. - Context-Based Captioning System
Real-time lecture captions and corrected transcripts from a fine-tuned Whisper model.