Rick Wang is a CS Major college student.

He is currently a fourth year student at Virginia Tech.

He started learning programming in high school, and absolutely fell in love with it. He is experienced in competitive programming, and loves building projects that are related to graphics and simulations.

Currently he is a tutor at Coding Minds Academy , teaching students programming and helping them with their coding projects.

He was the webmaster for the Gamespawn video game development club in UCR, and also currently the webmaster for the Virginia Tech Associate of Chinese Students and Scholars from 2022 to 2024.

Featured Projects

A list of featured side project and collabs with other friends. Be sure to check them out!

HokieLot

Finds available parking spaces and updates the number real time on a website through machine learning and computer vision.

Baby Blues

Real-time, mood-adaptive Spotify playlists for postpartum mothers, created from audio analysis to support emotional and mental well-being.

GPU Particles

An advanced physics simulation project leveraging CUDA and GPU programming to achieve real-time, high-performance particle dynamics and collision detection.

3D Model Renderer

Renders 3D Models from .obj files through coordinate transformations and rasterization.

Smoke Simulation

A program that mimics how smoke flows in a 2D dimension using C++ and the SFML Library.