ABOUT ME

I currently live in the Chicagoland area, where I grew up. I spent a couple years in Madison getting my undergraduate degree. Yes, I like freezing to death.


Sometime during my junior year of high school, during the pandemic, I started working on websites and really loving it. As a result, over the last couple of years, I've worked on all sorts of different web projects with all sorts of people. I'm passionate about making websites that other people will use and enjoy.


My other, more scholarly interests in computing include data visualization, computer graphics, operating systems, machine learning and AI, computer architecture, and


Currently, I'm getting my master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I got my undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Data Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Check out the Education page if you want to see what I've learned. (coming soon)



In my free time, I play Magic: the Gathering and Tractor (I blame my ancestry), work on my programming projects (mostly web development), practice Rubik's Cubes, play games, read manga, and cook. I'm somewhat of a foodie, and I especially love traveling in Asia.


Also, the best thing to ever happen to programming is regular expressions. That's just a fact.

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Get in touch

You can reach me at the following email address (This is the e-mail I check the most often, so you WILL get a response.)

rz@raymondzhao.com

This is my student email address: (If you're asking about work, I don't recommend emailing me here. This inbox gets a lot more swamped.)

rlzhao2@illinois.edu

Here's an up-to-date copy of my resume.