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

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AP Course Manager 2025

Farrington High School’s lack of marketing for AP courses left many students unaware of available classes or misled about their workload, resulting in missed opportunities or poor academic performance. To solve this, we built an AP Course Manager that lists all AP offerings, lets teachers manage courses, and uses AI to recommend classes based on each student’s interests.

Course Manager Recommendation System

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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

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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

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Essays

Reflecting on Software Engineering

16 May 2025

Throughout this semester, we had the priviledge to learn Software Engineering principles alongside tools to practice these principles. We had WODs and take home WODs to solidify our understanding of these tools and our final project allowed us to practice...

design patterns software engineering principles agile project development

AI reflection in ICS 314

11 May 2025

Introduction: If you think about it, AI is still a relatively new field, yet there are already so many use cases across many industries. One of which is in education, where AI is used to teach students, and students utilize...

AI in Education AI Reflection Future of AI in Education

Effort Estimation for Final Project

10 May 2025

Introduction As a requirement for this project, I wanted to share and establish a clear picture of how I estimated how my time was used and how that time was tracked. By estimating and then tracking both coding and non-coding...

Software Engineering Effort Estimation Tracking Effort

Do we still need to learn UI?

27 Feb 2025

I would like to take the opportunity that the assignment has given me to discuss another topic that is still based on UI frameworks. That is, how relevant is it to still be learning UI frameworks in today’s day and...

AI UI framework system design

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

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