Andrew Park
Undergraduate Computer Engineering Student @ UCSD
Passionate about building novel software that solves real-world problems. Research Assistant at Salk Institute of Biological Studies and SOC Lab.
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Talmo Lab at Salk Institute of Biological Studies
Lab Tech I
Feb 2024 — Present- Formulated an AWS infrastructure for a generic cloud-based platform for software training that provides cloud computational resources called LabLink with AWS EC2 Instance for deployment of the Flask web app and PostgreSQL Database.
- Constructed a Terraform code for IoC to ease the deployment of the required tutorial infrastructure reducing the deployment time to 4 minutes.
- Added CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions to test the packages and deploy infrastructures via Terraform codes for production, staging, and development environments.
- Deployed LabLink for SLEAP, a deep learning software used for multi-animal pose tracking, showcased at the COSYNE conference with over 150 participants.
- Constructed Google Spanner database modification Python scripts with tests in Pytest that handles more than 150 entries in the database in real-time.
SOC Lab at UC San Diego
Undergraduate Researcher
Jun 2025 — Present- Implemented multiple RL controllers (PPO, DQN, Q-learning) tailored for longitudinal acceleration control of CAVs in mixed traffic, with policies optimized to suppress stop-and-go waves.
- Designed the full control loop for the CAV follower (state extraction, normalization, action mapping, safety clipping, and SUMO actuation) to ensure stable and realistic vehicle behavior.
- Engineered reward functions targeting leader tracking, acceleration smoothness, and TTC safety, grounded in traffic-flow control theory.
Rose-STL Lab at UC San Diego
Undergraduate Researcher
Jan 2024 — Jun 2024- Collected and pre-processed clothing data of 200 products from H&M shopping website using Python Selenium.
- Designed and implemented PyTorch datasets to optimize training pipelines for Virtual Try-On deep learning models, including TryOnDiffusion and VITON-HD.
- Reproduced the state-of-the-art steering methods, including SEAL, RFM, and GCAV, to benchmark the performance of the steering methods.
- Utilized vLLM and HuggingFace to import, tune, and evaluate them for steering benchmarking.
- Workshop paper about steering a Large Language Model (LLM) accepted to NeuroIPS 2025 Workshop
Citimit
Frontend Developer
Jun 2023 — Jun 2024- Developed a JavaScript web service that eases the process of obtaining building permits in San Diego with the integration of AI technology
- Designed dynamic web pages and features from scratch using React, achieving 60% satisfaction rate with the UI/UX.
Featured Projects
ScheduleProject
A mobile application that designed for UCSD students to share and compare their class schedules.
About Me
Hi, I am Andrew Park. I am currently a senior undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering at UC San Diego. Although my primary background is South Korea, I was blended with diverse cultures: I was born in North Carolina and lived there for five years. Then, I moved to Seoul, South Korea, and lived there for another five years, and I moved to Shanghai, China. At last, I ended up here at San Diego. I am passionate about building novel softwares that solve real-world problems. I love learning new technologies and continuously improving my skills. In my free time, I enjoy playing tennis and playing video games.
