I'm John Daniel, a fourth-year undergraduate studying Software Engineering at UC Irvine.

I'm John Daniel, a fourth-year undergraduate studying Software Engineering at UC Irvine.

Tour Guide, Undergraduate Researcher, Design-a-thon Director.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2025 — Now

Research Assistant at Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine

TeamCAST visualizes progress and contributions in student team projects.

  • Developed an evaluation framework for quality, volume, and importance of artifacts produced.

  • Designed a PostgreSQL database to document artifact development over different groups.

  • Performed comparative analysis across multiple student groups to identify correlations among team participation, LLM usage, and other factors.

2024 — 2025

Research Assistant at Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine

Daily Smirk is a peer assessment tool for instructors in team-based course projects.

  • Designed and implemented a customizable peer assessment tool based on stakeholder feedback, streamlining data input and improving user experience for instructors.

  • UI, UX, and Front-end development using ReactJS for the Daily Smirk, a high-frequency peer assessment application under Professor Andre Van Der Hoek & Yu Lu, Department of Informatics at UCI.

  • Analyzed user flow and created entity-relationship diagrams to streamline data input and improve interface usability.

  • Deployed to 300+ students in capstone-project classes and other courses, facilitating high-frequency peer assessments and real-time feedback.

2022 — Now

Campus Representative at UC Irvine

  • Led over fifty campus tours and guest check-in shifts, delivering exceptional guest service.

  • Engaged in student outreach at panels, events, and college fairs to promote UC Irvine.

  • Streamlined operations by automating and aggregating over 1,000 quarterly calls using Google Sheets and Python to analyze shift data

CONTRACT WORK EXPERIENCE

2024 — 2024

Reader at UC Irvine

  • Assisted in grading for IN4MATX 121: Software Design I, under André van der Hoek, during Fall 2024.

2024 — 2024

Learning Assistant at UC Irvine

  • Assisted in office hours, review sessions, and in-person learning activities for I&C SCI 46: Data Structure Implementation and Analysis. Taught by Michael Shindler, during Fall 2024.

EXTRACURRICULARS

2024 — Now

Design-a-thon Corporate Director
for Design at UC Irvine

Design-a-thon Corporate Director for Design at UC Irvine

2022 — Now

Public Relations Committee Member
for ICS Student Council

Public Relations Committee Member for ICS Student Council

AWARDS

2023

Redesigned UCI's student enrollment system, in a brand-consistent and student-focused way.

2022

Used Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Latent Semantic Analysis to improve user search over a provided dataset

Read more here.

2021

A game that calls on the Spotify and MusixMatch API to quiz you on your top songs and their lyrics.

Read more here.

WRITING

2022

A modern-day counterpart to the growing issue of mass incarceration within the United States, electronic monitoring is seen as a viable alternative to the confinement of an individual within a usual jail or prison cell.

2022

Originally imagined in the sixties to keep track of juvenile delinquents, the deployment of ankle monitors with electronic monitoring has become more prevalent within the system of mass incarceration in the United States.