Hello! My name is Bill and I aim to develop products that reshape how users access and interact with the internet. I dream of a future where anyone, anywhere, can interact with anything simply by speaking out loud. 🚀 About Me I do hackathons, and thats about it 🏅 Achievements - Won first place at UC Berkeley Hackathon, securing $64k in funding, among 293 teams & 1700+ participants - Won first place in Google @ UCLA, among 147 teams - GDSC Top 10, first and only US team in the top 10 among 2000+ global teams in 2023 - 40+ hackathons in the past 2 years, with 27 wins at prestigious schools including Yale, UC Berkeley, UCLA, GTech, UCSD, UCSC, UCI, UCD, and UCSB - Finalist @ XR/VR Hackathon hosted by Meta + Founders Inc., pitching to Founders/VCs from YC, a16z, Meta, AWS, and Unity - Creator of a Computer Vision based American Sign Language Snapchat filter with 280k+ users - Open-source contributor to projects with 81k+ stars on GitHub 🎼 Passion & Interests - Orchestral arrangement - Piano freestyling - Fantasy & sci-fi writing. 🤝 Let's Connect - Hackathons: devpost.com/IdkwhatImD0ing - Portfolio: billzhang.tech - Email: jzhang71@usc.edu