Allen Wang

Hi there, I'm Allen! I help companies collect their environmental data and manage their resources at Nectar.

Previously, I studied at MIT where I helped organize HackMIT as Dev Head, where I managed teams and shipped open source tools. I was at some point the Co-President of MIT Poker Club.

I love meeting folks from all walks of life. Come say hi 👋 and email me!

What are you up to now?

I spend most of my days building Nectar where I write software, help large companies with their environmental resources, and meet brilliant minds who are dedicating their lives to solving climate change.

What do you do for fun?

A mélange of things... I enjoy reading about science and how people think. I get excited about making useful things for people and creating cultured communities. I like impressing tipsy teammates with my mediocre card magic, making music with friends, and occasionally writing.

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While the vast majority of my time is of course dedicated towards Nectar, in the little time I have outside, I've been helping maintain Dialogic as an on-and-off project with Antonio Frigo, Jonathan Yin, and Joshua Mishrikey. If you're interested in what I'm working on, or would like to join the fight towards rapid decarbonization, feel free to reach out!

Dialogic: Tracking Seminar-Style Discussions

I helped design and build software to track what happens in a group discussion in a classroom.

The project was done in conjunction with Antonio Frigo, Jonathan Yin, and Joshua Mishrikey.

Nextjs, Django, Postgres

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Autocomp: Run online math competitions

Over COVID, the math competition I had started in high school ran into issues. Antonio Frigo and I teammed up to build a platform that allowed folks from my high school to run a contest online complete with automatic grading and a leaderboard.

Nextjs, Golang, Postgres

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Ballot: HackMIT's Judging System

I designed and built out the first version of ballot, HackMIT's virtual judging system, with a wonderful dev team. The app uses graph theory and probabilistic algorithms to optimize scheduling and infer rankings.

I've also worked on HackMIT's 2020 & 2021 splash pages, virtual hackathon platform, puzzle, project expo, and help queue.

Flask, Jinja, some quick mathz

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AKQ Game

I presented Caro's AKQ game at MathILy, a summer program I attended. Since the program was remote, I coded up an online game that allowed students to play against each other.

This two-player game uses WebSocket and gorilla/socket for real-time updates.

Go, ReactJS

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Cryptogram Solver

I implemented an MCMC-based cryptogram solver for MIT's inference and information course. My report was recognized for its unique approach of using a symmetrized form of KL divergence to find a better initial state.

After the course, I exported half the project into an app. Now it runs outside the CLI 😀.

Flask, Jinja

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Matrix Walker: Cache-Oblivious Indexing

We implemented cache-oblivious indexing for matrices using row-major, hilbert, and z indexing and benchmark cache misses using valgrind on an EC2. To help visualize the indexing schemes, we built a static site to "walk" along the matrix.

The research project was conducted in collaboration with Jett Wang and under the mentorship of Erik Demaine.

C++, ReactJS

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College Series of Poker

I co-founded CSOP, the College Series of Poker, which aims to unite poker players across all US colleges. We host an annual tournament every year at MIT.

I designed and coded up the website, organized monthly qualifiers, and coordinated prize payouts.

ReactJS

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When To Meet... but better

Antonio Frigo and I built a mobile friendly version of when2meet with a better UI and dark mode. This was my first project, so the code does not exactly implement the best practices 😛.

Django, ReactJS

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