Emily's Projects

Users’ Expectations and Practices with Agent Memory

Jones, B., Stemmler, K., Su, E., Kim, Y. H., Kuzminykh, A.

[Paper]

CHI EA 2025

Do You Think GPT Will Be Correct?: Measuring and Improving Generative AI Literacy Through Metacognition Training

Su, E., Bo, J., Wu, S., Anderson, A., Coleman, B.

[Paper] [Presentation]

University of Toronto Summer Undergraduate Research Showcase

Characteristics of Top Songs Has Changed from Pandemic Brain: An analysis of songs on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 singles list (2014 to 2023)

Su, E.

[Paper] [GitHub Repo]

Music often reflects the current climate of society and there is a growing interest in how hit songs as seen on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 singles has changed after the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper looks at music characteristics such as tempo, song duration, loudness, and modality of songs from Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 singles list from 2014 to 2023 to reveal patterns and relationships to explain the difference between top songs before 2020 and 2020 onwards.

Recommended or Not?: Applying Supervised Machine Learning Models to Understand UofT Course Evaluations

Su, E., Tosic, L., Wong, K.

[Paper] [GitHub Repo]

Machine learning paper using models such as a multilayer perceptron neural network with Adam optimizer, logistic regression, linear regression, decision tree, and Gaussian Discriminant Analysis, as well as a majority voting ensemble to understand factors influencing whether or not a UofT course gets recommended or not by students.

Street Whisper App

[GitHub Repo]

A command-line app that transcribes and translates audio files into CSV files for interview-heavy research projects across different languages.

Exoplanet Classifier (Interactive Data Visualization and Data Analysis)

[GitHub Repo] [Website]

Classified confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive using the k-means clustering algorithm, resulting in 3 potential subtypes being identified. Calculated the Safronov number for each exoplanet type to determine its relationship with planetary ejection.

Q-SITE Conference 2023 Entanglement Initiative (Interactive Data Visualization)

[Website]

Developed an interactive data visualization in a cross-functional team to group up similar consenting attendees of a quantum conference using text embeddings and applying dimensionality reduction on survey data.

Sheep Jump AI

[GitHub Repo]

An AI that plays a game where sheep—each being a neural network—jump to avoid fences and learns using the genetic algorithm.

Nourpact

[GitHub Repo]

A web app with the goal of reducing food waste by locating nearby food rescues and finding recipes using given food items. Made using React, CSS, and SerpAPI. Hosted on Netlify and created high-fidelity wireframes on Figma. Won 2nd place (college) and best domain name out of 96 projects (with 430+ participants) at SimpliHacks 2.0.