Jerry Lu

I am a software engineer based in New York City

Previously, I studied computer science and cognitive science at Penn

About Me

Experience

Software Engineer II, Cadre

July 2021-Present • New York, New York

  • Engineering web applications to streamline fund accounting workflows
  • Building APIs and data pipelines for Cadre's acquisitions and asset management teams

Research Intern, Carnegie Mellon University

May 2020-Aug 2020 • Remote

  • Researched Software Engineering for AI-enabled systems, advised by Professor Christian Kästner.
  • Developed a tool that analyzes execution order in computational notebooks.

Research Intern, National University of Singapore

May 2019-July 2019 • Singapore

  • Researched applications of Deep Learning in controlling power systems
  • Developed and trained conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Graduated May 2021 with a BSE in Computer Science, double major in Cognitive Science

Projects

Smart Kitchen Manager

Senior design project, web app providing inventory management, recipe sharing, recipe recommendation, meal planning. Built with Python, Flask, MySQL

Cell-UI 

Web-based application for analyzing execution order and data-flow between cells in computational notebooks. Built using Node.js and Express

Is Pottruck Open?

Website displaying the hours of gyms at Penn, built using Django and Bootstrap.

Grover

Computational Linguistics class final project. Language model that produces rhyming rap verses, implemented using PyTorch.

Interests

I enjoy brewing coffee, cooking, gardening, pottery, and rock climbing