# Ben Zhou

> Third-year Computer Science and Finance/Economics student at the University of Toronto. Builds software, mostly at hackathons, and takes photographs.

The personal site of Ruoyu (Ben) Zhou, https://thebenzhou.com. Its pages draw his work with JavaScript, so these Markdown files carry the same facts as plain text.

## Contact

- Email: benz.zhou@mail.utoronto.ca
- Personal: me@thebenzhou.com
- Phone: 778-680-9189
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/-ben-zhou-/
- GitHub: https://github.com/benz16107
- Devpost: https://devpost.com/benz16107
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_ben_zhou_/

## About

- [Everything in one file](https://thebenzhou.com/llms-full.txt): education, experience, research, tools and all 22 projects in full
- [Resume](https://thebenzhou.com/assets/ben-zhou-resume.pdf): PDF

## Projects

- [UofTime](https://thebenzhou.com/project/uoftime.md): A UofT timetable builder: pick sections on a week grid, see the walk between classes, subscribe from your calendar. Live, started September 30, 2026, still going.
- [Pixie](https://thebenzhou.com/project/pixie.md): An insurance risk engine where agents investigate and code computes every number. Live, built September 18, 2026 to September 20, 2026.
- [Blad](https://thebenzhou.com/project/blad.md): An iPad note-taking app for lectures where notes stay ordinary files in a folder you pick. Building, started September 17, 2026, still going.
- [rcventure.ca](https://thebenzhou.com/project/rcventure.md): The website for RCVC, the UofT venture capital club he markets. Live, started September 8, 2026, still going.
- [tradex](https://thebenzhou.com/project/tradex.md): A marketplace where AI agents pay each other per call in USDC on Solana. Live, built July 12, 2026.
- [MarketMaker](https://thebenzhou.com/project/marketmaker.md): A desktop paper-trading app for US stocks. Shipped, built July 9, 2026 to August 9, 2026.
- [canvas-companion](https://thebenzhou.com/project/canvas-companion.md): Mirrors his UofT Quercus courses to disk, twice a day. Shipped, built July 5, 2026 to July 6, 2026.
- [Keypace](https://thebenzhou.com/project/keypace.md): A native Mac typing-speed test, on the Mac App Store. Live, started June 4, 2026, still going.
- [Cracked City](https://thebenzhou.com/project/cracked-city.md): Road-damage triage for Toronto: what to fix first, and what it costs. Shipped, built May 30, 2026 to June 2, 2026.
- [AI Dance Generator](https://thebenzhou.com/project/dance.md): Upload a song, get a stick-figure dance synced to it, exported for TikTok. Shipped, built May 27, 2026.
- [ConfidensAI](https://thebenzhou.com/project/confidensai.md): A pay-per-use AI agent on GOAT Network mainnet. Shipped, built May 26, 2026.
- [Tidal Wordle](https://thebenzhou.com/project/tidal-wordle.md): Competitive beach Wordle with a 3D wave scene driven by real tide data. Shipped, built May 24, 2026.
- [Artifex](https://thebenzhou.com/project/artifex.md): Product idea to spec, brand research, concept images, then real 3D meshes. Shipped, built May 9, 2026 to May 10, 2026.
- [OOPS](https://thebenzhou.com/project/aero.md): Tactical route-risk guidance built from flight telemetry and map intelligence. Shipped, built March 14, 2026 to March 15, 2026.
- [Eco-Pulse](https://thebenzhou.com/project/eco-pulse.md): Urban heat and tree-planting planner for Montreal. Shipped, built March 13, 2026 to March 15, 2026.
- [Packwise](https://thebenzhou.com/project/packwise.md): AI packing companion for iOS and Android. Shipped, built March 7, 2026 to March 8, 2026.
- [Pentagon](https://thebenzhou.com/project/pentagon.md): Supply-chain risk platform built around explainable agent traces. Shipped, built March 4, 2026 to March 12, 2026.
- [DataFrame](https://thebenzhou.com/project/dataframe.md): A node canvas where every node runs real Python in your browser. Live, built February 27, 2026 to March 6, 2026.
- [Nova](https://thebenzhou.com/project/nova.md): An in-room hotel voice concierge. Shipped, built February 22, 2026 to February 28, 2026.
- [RouteWatch](https://thebenzhou.com/project/routewatch.md): Tracks how long a drive actually takes over weeks. Shipped, built February 10, 2026 to February 27, 2026.
- [BlindSpot](https://thebenzhou.com/project/blindspot.md): Walking navigation for blind and low-vision users. Shipped, built February 7, 2026 to February 12, 2026.
- [Context-Based Captioning System](https://thebenzhou.com/project/captioning.md): Real-time lecture captions and corrected transcripts from a fine-tuned Whisper model. Shipped, built September 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026.

## Optional

- [Business card](https://thebenzhou.com/c): his 3D-printed card as a page, with a contact file to save
- [Privacy](https://thebenzhou.com/privacy.html)
- [Terms](https://thebenzhou.com/terms.html)