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mason-cao/README.md

About Me

I'm a high school student at Lambert High School and a developer with a focus on building full-stack applications, AI agent pipelines, and practical data tools. Whether it's training cross-validation churn prediction models or managing concurrent database operations, I love tackling complex backend logic and bringing it to life with modern frontend frameworks.

  • Currently building: A.E.R.I.S (Environmental Intel)
  • Incoming: Research Intern, NASA Data Science & Scholarly Research Program (Selected for a 50-student cohort to analyze NASA TESS and JWST exoplanet data)
  • Certifications: IT Specialist in Software Development (Certiport)
  • Currently Pursuing: NVIDIA Certified Associate (Generative AI LLMs) & Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), alongside independent studies in Stanford CS224N (NLP & Transformers) and MIT 6.S191 (Deep Learning).
  • Advanced Coursework: Harvard CS50 & MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute (CS Core)
  • Leadership: Secretary & Project Lead at First Step | Pool Manager at AMS Pools
  • Beyond the screen: I have 300+ hours of volunteer service. I'm also a Varsity Swimming Team Captain (State Qualifier) and a 5x GMEA All-State musician playing the soprano and bass clarinet.

Tech Stack & Tools

Languages Python Java C SQL JavaScript TypeScript HTML5 CSS3 AppleScript

Frontend React Next.js TailwindCSS Mapbox GL JS Chart.js Recharts

Backend & Databases FastAPI Flask PostgreSQL TimescaleDB SQLite SQLAlchemy

Data Science & AI scikit-learn Pandas statsmodels SHAP Ollama ChromaDB

Tools & DevOps Git Vite TanStack Query


GitHub Stats


Honors, Awards, & Extracurriculars (Click to Expand)

Competitive Events & Academics

  • NASA Data Science and Scholarly Research Program: Incoming Summer 2026 Research Intern. Selected as one of roughly 50 students for a highly competitive cohort to conduct time-series and Bayesian statistical analysis on NASA TESS and JWST datasets. Will be working under a NASA Principal Investigator to validate exoplanet candidates and publish a formal scholarly paper.
  • USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) Gold Division: Promoted to the Gold tier after scoring a 760 in the 2026 Silver Contest.
  • DECA: State Champion & International Qualifier (ICDC) — 1st Place, Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making.
  • FBLA: State Placements & National Qualifier — 4th in Networking Infrastructures; 5th in Data Science & AI.
  • Academic Excellence: Georgia Certificate of Merit (Top 5% of class), Georgia State President’s List (Dual enrollment, 5.0 GPA), AP Scholar with Distinction (2025), and College Board National Recognition Award (2025).

Extracurricular Impact

  • First Step Nonprofit (Secretary & Project Lead): Directed 300+ volunteers for 240+ initiatives, removing 2,500+ lbs of trash and raising $17,890+. Secured a $5,000 Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund grant for microplastics research. Accumulated 300+ personal volunteer hours.
  • Community Educator: Tutored 52 local youth in 2 summers in Mathematics, English, and foundational programming (Scratch) within the Chinese community.
  • Varsity Swimming: Team Captain, GHSA State Qualifier, Club swimmer ranked 38th in Georgia.
  • Instrumental Music: Principal Bass Clarinetist & 5x GMEA All-State Band selection on soprano and bass clarinet.
  • Affiliations & Societies: Google Developer Program, National Technical Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society (peer tutor), and Key Club.
  • Presidential Volunteer Service Award: Gold (2023) & Bronze (2024).

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  1. aeris aeris Public

    Self-hosted environmental intelligence platform that detects anomalies in real-time air quality, weather, and satellite data, then generates causal explanations using a locally-hosted LLM.

    Python

  2. multi-agent-customer-intelligence-dashboard multi-agent-customer-intelligence-dashboard Public

    Full-stack multi-agent customer intelligence dashboard with synthetic workspace generation, feature engineering, churn scoring, sentiment analysis, recommendations, and safe query support.

    Python 1

  3. freshtrack freshtrack Public

    A smart pantry dashboard with automated expiration alerts, recipe discovery, and waste analytics.

    TypeScript

  4. detox detox Public

    Screen time tracker for macOS that monitors app usage, sets goals, blocks distracting apps, and allows you to share your progress

    JavaScript

  5. paper-to-pod paper-to-pod Public

    Learn academic papers in a podcast like style that you can interrupt and argue with (for MLH AI Hackfest)

    TypeScript

  6. MIT-6.S191-Independent-Study MIT-6.S191-Independent-Study Public

    This repo holds my code and notes from the MIT 6.S191 official lectures and labs, covering everything from basic neural networks to generative models.

    Python