UofTime

A UofT timetable builder: pick sections on a week grid, see the walk between classes, subscribe from your calendar.

A timetable builder for UofT, covering St. George, Mississauga and Scarborough. Search a course, hover a class to see its other sections, compare plans in tabs, and see each day's walk between buildings on a map. The timetable lives in the link, so there is no account, and any calendar app can subscribe to it. It is also an MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can build a timetable in conversation. Live at uoftime.com since October 1, 2026. Since October 6, 2026 it also lists the conflict-free timetables for the chosen courses, ordered by fewest gaps, latest start, earliest finish or fewest days on campus. Since October 7, 2026 a first visit opens on a sample week with a six-step tour, a timetable can be built with the keyboard alone, and its checks also run in Safari's engine. The same day it gained privacy and terms pages and an llms.txt file that tells AI agents how to reach the MCP server.

Ben Zhou

A man fishing off a sea wall, silhouetted against a cloudy sky
Photograph by Ben, June 2024

Toronto

Ben Zhou

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

Business card, to turn and flip

About

Education
University of Toronto, St. George
B.Sc. Computer Science and Finance/Economics, expected June 2028
Experience

Software Engineer, StealthMay 2026 to present · Toronto Launching soon.

Sponsorship Coordinator, Hack the ValleyMar 2026 to present · Toronto

Director of Technology, CUSEC (Canadian University Software Engineering Conference)Mar 2026 to present

Research and Development Manager, Rotman Commerce FinTech AssociationMar 2026 to present · Toronto

Marketing Manager, Rotman Commerce Venture Capital GroupMar 2026 to present · Toronto Designed and built rcventure.ca.

Research

Context-Based Captioning System, UofT Trustworthy Machine IntelligenceSept 2025 to Apr 2026 Fine-tuned Whisper for lecture speech recognition, producing real-time captions and corrected transcripts.

Hackathons

11 wins2 organized15+ attended

Photography
Shoots Sony: cities, water, cars, and the people in them. Took Photography 11 and 12 in high school, and made a short film (2023) and a music video (2024). See the photographs.
Languages
English and Mandarin Chinese (native), French (limited)
Tools
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Dart, Java, C++, SQL, Next.js, React, Node.js, Django, FastAPI, Flutter, Tailwind, PyTorch, Hugging Face, OpenCV, Git, GitHub, Docker, Postgres, Solana, Unity, Arduino, NVIDIA Jetson, ROS, SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro

Projects