James Yamada

Student

Hey! I'm currently studying Computer Science B.S. at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. My interests includes Machine Learning, Block Chain, Cryptocurrency, Mathematics, and Quantitative Finance/Development. I really enjoy connecting and talking to people so feel free to connect with me on my linkedin!


Interests: Quantitative Finance, Machine/Deep Learning, Mathematics, Investments, Blockchain


Projects

Financial Modeling 2025

I worked on a machine learning project to predict stock price movements by analyzing historical data and technical indicators, using LSTM networks to capture time-series patterns and evaluating the model's performance to ensure it learned meaningful trends.

Finance Trading Machine Learning

Read More
People You May Know 2024-08-10

During my internship at a stealth startup, I had the honor to work on a project named PYMK.

Machine Learning Social Network Graph Algorithms

Read More
Feedback 2024

During my internship, I worked on a sentiment analysis project to fine-tune a pretrained model for classifying customer reviews, learning how to preprocess text, apply techniques like TF-IDF or word embeddings, and deploy the model using cloud services like AWS for real-time feedback analysis.

Machine Learning Feedback Python

Read More

Essays

Coding Standards as a function

13 Feb 2025

I love math. Math functions describe the world that we live in. Naturally, it also describes many computer science concepts. In this essay, I would like to model coding standards as a function of multiple variables, a multivariate function, and...

Coding Standard

Just ask smart questions

30 Jan 2025

I knew the importance of communication in Software Engineering, most of which the job is commenting and doing meetings. However, I have never considered the importance of asking smart questions. I knew there was a baseline of how “smart” questions...

Smart Questions Dumb Questions

Glorious Evolution

28 Jan 2025

When you’re going to change the world, don’t ask for permission. I quoted this when I completed my most difficult project yet, the calculator app… This obviously did not happen, nor was it quoted by someone who exists. The quote...

Machine Learning and AI

Cluttered Mind

28 Jan 2025

Writing in typescript is just… bland… It has neither intrigued me nor bored me. As someone who knew how to code in javascript prior, I still can’t grasp how much better this subset of js is to justify the language...

Typescript