I'm Frederick Chan, the software wizard from the Emerald City!
Research engineer and web developer at the IPD David Baker Lab
I wrote software for ProteinMPNN, a deep learning approach to protein sequence design published in Science, worked on the Foldit website redesign, and ran feasibility studies for integrating Foldit with an HTML5 UI.
Full stack intern at Newbook Digital Texts, University of Washington NELC
I built a database where for identifying and reading travel logs from the Golden Age of Egyptology. Starting with only OCR scans of Nile Notes of a Howadji, I turned a book into a library with while shaving off up to 90% of the manual work otherwise needed.
Even more of my projects are available on Github
Web implementation of Grow, the abstract strategy board game I invented that's played on a 15x15 Go board and multicolored stones for up to 4 players. There is no AI, so you will want to play with a friend.
A multiplayer game where you compete with your friends to answer a series of simple brain games as quickly as possible. Originally inspired by the math minigame in the Jackbox game, Trivia Murder Party.
Web-based phonological feature viewer for all 3,183 segments and all 2,186 phonemic inventories in PHOIBLE, inspired by the UCLA Pheatures Spreadsheet. The 23.2 MB of raw PHOIBLE data is compressed down to 250 kB after processing with Python and both loads and runs amazingly fast in your browser!
A conlang written using colorful tessellating triangles with a focus on formal semantics. The placement and color of triangles along a 2D plane determines the syntax of each sentence. (The sentence renderer uses D3).
World of Warcraft addon that lets you add TomTom waypoints based on location name (e.g. "Orgrimmar"). Locations and their coordinates are data mined from WoW itself. Great for new players who don't know where anything is.
AI writing is becoming indistinguishable from humans! Can you tell the difference between real and AI-generated news? This is a simple Turing test-like game created as part of a final project for an Information Ethics class.
Webcam filter that overlays the animated Laughing Man logo from Ghost in the Shell: SAC on faces and sends the output to a virtual webcam.
Bukkit plugin that calls the Mathematica kernel to query WolframAlpha from in-game. Do your calculus homework… in Minecraft! See how it works in my blog post.
Tools for mapping and analyzing Minecraft maps in GIS software. Featured in my joke paper for SIGBOVIK 2020, Visualizing player engagement with virtual spaces using GIS.
The online zero-player game where you have more impact over a country's government than in real life!
Articles published in real™ journals, like Science
You can use a message passing neural network to predict amino acid sequences for proteins with novel structures! Try it yourself at Hugging Face. Published in Science (a preprint is also available).
Articles published in joke tastefully humorous journals, like SIGBOVIK
You can put a Minecraft map in real map software and it works! Published in SIGBOVIK 2020 (page 273)