Steven Le

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I am a Junior at Stanford University interested in Virtual Reality (VR) and Software…

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Volunteer Experience

  • Phoenix Union High School District Graphic

    Peer Mentor

    Phoenix Union High School District

    - Present 6 years

    Education

    Sophomore year, I mentored failing students at my high school, Trevor G. Browne, through Boost Camp in order to help them pass their classes and learn study and organizational skills. Junior year, I helped my school's ACT-prep teacher by tutoring students on the ACT, especially the ACT Math section. Summer of Senior Year, I joined the Phoenix Union High School District Peer Influencer Program to help students in my school district prepare for college. I advertised college and ACT workshops on…

    Sophomore year, I mentored failing students at my high school, Trevor G. Browne, through Boost Camp in order to help them pass their classes and learn study and organizational skills. Junior year, I helped my school's ACT-prep teacher by tutoring students on the ACT, especially the ACT Math section. Summer of Senior Year, I joined the Phoenix Union High School District Peer Influencer Program to help students in my school district prepare for college. I advertised college and ACT workshops on social media, informed my peers on financial aid and FAFSA, and reached out to them to offer assistance on college steps. After I was accepted into Stanford early through QuestBridge, I edited my peers' college essays, providing feedback. This eventually expanded past my school district when students out of state reached out to me, asking me to edit their college essays. Now, I am mentoring many rising high school seniors in different states with the college process, explaining my senior-year experience and editing their college essays.

Courses

  • Computer Organization & Systems

    CS 107

  • Data Structures & Algorithms

    CS 106B

  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms

    CS 161

  • General Game Playing

    CS 227B

  • Introduction to Statistics for Computer Scientists

    CS 109

  • Linear Algebra & Multivariable Calculus

    Math 51

  • Mathematical Foundations of Computing

    CS 103

  • VR Development

    CS 11

  • VR Research for ADHD

    Summer

  • VR Research for Social Psychology

    CS 199

Projects

  • MindTutor

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    Personalized self-learning app powered by ChatGPT aimed to reduce company onboarding time and expenses by over 50%. After answering a series of questions, the app will generate a personalized curriculum of how to learn the material, followed by a quiz to test for understanding.

    Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBc-teEKO-0
    GitHub: https://github.com/StevenLe2012/MindTutor

  • The Pen Is Mighter than the Sword

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    A two-player Virtual Reality video game that merges artistic fun, competitive madness, and fitness benefits in an immersive, high-paced environment for Georgia Tech's ImmersGT 2023 Hackathon. The game integrates advanced AI technologies (DALL-E, Stable-Diffusion, Clip) and VR hand-tracking to make the art creation process easier, and it fosters group bonding by bringing people closer together through shared artistic experiences. I incorporated the multiplayer components and interactions using…

    A two-player Virtual Reality video game that merges artistic fun, competitive madness, and fitness benefits in an immersive, high-paced environment for Georgia Tech's ImmersGT 2023 Hackathon. The game integrates advanced AI technologies (DALL-E, Stable-Diffusion, Clip) and VR hand-tracking to make the art creation process easier, and it fosters group bonding by bringing people closer together through shared artistic experiences. I incorporated the multiplayer components and interactions using Unity's Netcode.

    Video Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D622-WeCsV0
    Drawing Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy6Ou3FIXHQ
    Devpost: https://devpost.com/software/the-pen-is-mighter-than-the-sword

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  • Mindscape VR

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    Designed and developed an award-winning meditative and therapeutic VR experience at the Metaverse Creators Hackathon hosted by Dimension X. Incorporated OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Wit.AI to enable a virtual therapist via the flow of text-to-speech -> ChatGPT resonse -> speech-to-text.

    Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRxQi7047UI&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fstevenle2012.itch.io%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE
    Itch.io Post: https://stevenle2012.itch.io/mindscape-vr

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  • Blood Divers

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    Designed and developed an educational VR game for the TreeHacks hackathon. Implemented player locomotion to swim inside their bloodstream using swimming gestures and learn about different types of blood cells as well as the process of endothelial regeneration (repairing the inner membrane of the blood vessels) by directly grabbing endothelial progenitor cells, stimulating their splitting nature, and engaging in repairing the damaged area of the vascular wall themselves. The blood flow reacts to…

    Designed and developed an educational VR game for the TreeHacks hackathon. Implemented player locomotion to swim inside their bloodstream using swimming gestures and learn about different types of blood cells as well as the process of endothelial regeneration (repairing the inner membrane of the blood vessels) by directly grabbing endothelial progenitor cells, stimulating their splitting nature, and engaging in repairing the damaged area of the vascular wall themselves. The blood flow reacts to heart rate data collected by the Arduino via a heart rate sensor attached to the user's finger.

    Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH3GdwHmTME&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fdevpost.com%2F
    Devpost: https://devpost.com/software/blood-vessel-experience

    See project
  • Meditation Garden

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    Created VR farming simulator's backend for watering and plant growth.

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  • CyberOrange

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    I started this project to continue the Newspaper Club in light of COVID-19. Without an online platform to release new articles and editions, the Orange Juice Newspaper Club would not be able to publish during my senior year of high school. I learned how to build a website during Summer 2020 at the Brandeis University App Design Pre-College Program, so I put my newly learned skills into building this project. I founded the website on my own; however, I eventually taught an underclassman in the…

    I started this project to continue the Newspaper Club in light of COVID-19. Without an online platform to release new articles and editions, the Orange Juice Newspaper Club would not be able to publish during my senior year of high school. I learned how to build a website during Summer 2020 at the Brandeis University App Design Pre-College Program, so I put my newly learned skills into building this project. I founded the website on my own; however, I eventually taught an underclassman in the club how to program and continue the website for when I graduate. We worked on the website together while I taught the underclassmen. Through this project, I developed the HTML and Javascript knowledge that I learned in the program. I also learned how to teach a peer and communicate effectively while working on a coding project.

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  • Xolbor Games - (Roblox Clone)

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    I completed a four-week App Design program, creating a Roblox Clone called Xolbor Games with a team of seven. I was the primary front-end programmer and secondary back-end programmer. During the project, I communicated with everyone on the team and helped come up with the project goals.

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  • Joaquin Bustoz Research Project

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    I completed a six-week research project with a three-person team during my Joaquin Bustoz Math-Science Honors Program at Arizona State University. I researched the difference between electric vehicles and gasoline vehicles, categorized the differences in the types of cars, organize data into Google Sheets, created graphs through MatLab, and presented the conclusion on which vehicle type was more worth it for the cost.

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Honors & Awards

  • ACT Challenge Math Student Champion Award

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  • AP Scholar with Distinction

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  • CREATE + TechForce Transportation Challenge Winner

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  • DECA Sports & Entertainment Marketing Event First Place

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  • Dean’s List Phoenix Union High School District Academic Letter of Excellence

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  • National Honors Society

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  • Phoenix Union High School District Governing Board Recognition for Full-Ride Scholarship to Stanford University via QuestBridge

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  • Phoenix Union High School District Governing Board Recognition for Perfect Scores on Junior Year AP Exams

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  • Phoenix Union High School District Student of the Year

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  • QuestBridge National College Match Recipient

    QuestBridge

    One of 1,464 chosen out of 18,500 applicants. Matched to Stanford University. (7.9% acceptance rate).

  • Summa Cum Laude

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  • The Gates Scholarship

    The Gates Scholarship

    One of 300 chosen out of 34,900 applicants nationwide. (0.8% acceptance rate)

  • Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance Scholar

    Stanford University Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance

    One of 15 students conducting research in human performance.

Test Scores

  • 10 AP Exam Scores

    Score: -

    AP Calculus AB (5), AP Calculus BC (5), AP Statistics (5), Chemistry (5), AP Physics 1 (4), AP English Language and Composition (5), AP English Literature and Composition (3), AP United States History (5), AP United States Government and Politics (4), AP World History (3).

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Vietnamese

    Professional working proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

Organizations

  • Mua Lac Hong Vietnamese Dance

    Performer

    - Present

    • Performed in 8+ Dance Shows and the largest audience was ~800 people.

  • Stanford Vietnamese Student Association

    Culture Night Co-Chair

    - Present

    • Plan and facilitate the largest annual Vietnamese performance at Stanford University, called Culture Night, which includes a play, skits, dancing, and singing. • Advertised to over 600+ people to register for the event and ~400 people attended last year.

  • StanfordXR

    VR Developer & Mentor

    - Present

    • Helped implement a player controller, interaction system, and hand presence from the virtual reality video game Half-Life: Alyx as an open-source plugin in Unreal Engine. • Researching VR game design and best practices, and learned Unreal Engine Blueprints

  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

    Gates Scholar

    - Present

    • Selected as one of 300 out of the 36,000 applicants to be accepted to this scholarship for outstanding, minority, high school seniors. • Participated in The Gates Scholarship Summer Institute (TGSSI) • Learned professional development skills and connected with other highly hard-working individuals.

  • LoveAll10s

    Athlete and Tennis Coach

    - Present

    • Joined as Athlete in January, participating in every available tennis lesson at the Phoenix Tennis Center. • Became Assistant Tennis Coach in June for 5th to 8th graders, coaching 10+ middle schoolers and teaching them both Tennis skills and life advice.

  • QuestBridge

    Scholar

    - Present

    • Selected as one of 1,464 out of the 18,500 to be accepted to this scholarship for low-income, first-generation, high-achieving, high school students. • Matched to Stanford University with a full-ride scholarship.

  • Student Expedition Program (STEP)

    Member

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    • Applied and accepted. College-access and leadership non-profit program for low-income, first-generation Arizona students.

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