About Me

Hi! My name is Zhenghang Zhao and I go by Dino. I'm a graduate student passionate about building reliable software systems and backend applications. I enjoy turning ideas into real products and continuously sharpening my engineering skills through hands-on projects and problem solving. My received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science at University of Georgia. Go Dawgs! And I am currently enrolling my Master degree at Columbia University. My long-term goal is to become a software engineer who builds impactful, well-designed systems and contributes to meaningful products.

Outside of coding, I enjoy weight lifting, exploring new technologies, improving finacial knowledge, and continuously challenging myself to be the better verison of myself.

Education

Columbia University, Columbia Engineering Sept. 2025 – Present
M.S. in Computer Engineering · New York, NY
University of Georgia, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences Jan. 2023 – May 2025
B.S. in Computer Science · Athens, GA
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Aug. 2021 – Dec. 2022
Chattanooga, TN

Ongoing Projects / Research

AI Expense Guard
A spending tracker application with LLM-powered data analysis features
SWD Agent Spec. Research
Supervised by Prof. Juan Zhai · UMass

Publications

Coming soon

Experience

Software Engineer Intern Feb. 2026 – Apr. 2026
Quantrofin
LLM Research Participant Aug. 2024 – Feb. 2025
Columbia University · Supervised by Prof. Liu Zhi
Deep Learning Intern Aug. 2024 – Sept. 2024
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation
Part-time IT System Administrator Mar. 2022 – Dec. 2022
UTC SimCenter, Center of Excellence for Applied Computational Science and Engineering
Scholarship Officer Aug. 2021 – Dec. 2022
UTC ΣΝ Fraternity

Resources Benefited Me

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