Melinda Chang
Undergraduate Researcher
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelinda Chang is an interdisciplinary undergraduate researcher blending computer science with comparative literary studies, with eight years of hands-on research experience across top labs including CyLab at Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth CS, UC San Diego, and UC Berkeley. She works at the intersection of programming languages, compilers, and free software while also exploring cultural domains such as 19th–20th century European literature and Sinophone cinema, bringing a humanities-driven lens to technical problems. Her projects span programming systems, computational journalism, and cultural analytics, reflecting a rare fluency in both empirical engineering and textual interpretation. Currently a REUSE/SPUR Scholar, she pairs rigorous research methods with practical software development, and often draws on historical and cinematic perspectives to ask unconventional questions about code, data, and society.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science & Comparative Literary Studies, B.A. Computer Science & Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern UniversityCanyon Crest Academy
Github Skills (47)
javascript10
racket10
scripting-language10
dns10
scheme10
programming-language9
puzzle9
reactivity9
github-pages9
firefox9
nodejs9
react9
lisp9
scheme-interpreter9
rust9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
melindachang/site-legacy
May 2023 - Nov 2025
There's no place like $HOME
Contributions:2 PRs, 76 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 5 months
melindachang/cca-birding
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:37 commits, 1 PR, 33 pushes in 1 year
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