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Claire Lee

I am a B.S./M.S. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University passionate about high-performance computing, cybersecurity, and scalable systems. I love building efficient systems and solving impactful problems.

clairele@andrew.cmu.edu




Experience

General Atomics

Autopilot Software Development Intern | May 2025 - August 2025

Developed SCADE operators to automate MQ-9B UAV navigation and conducted regression tests aligned with FAA standards.

CMU CyLab & CORGi Lab

Research Assistant | May 2024 - Present

Built full-stack cyberattack simulator and custom cache for IPC-flattening, improving throughput by 34%.

FedEx

Software Engineering Intern | May 2024 - August 2024

Developed dashboard for 600+ dispatch stations; integrated GeoAI-assisted routing features from ESRI conference.

UCSD UJIMA Security & Privacy Lab

Machine Learning Research Intern | March 2022 - July 2023

Led bot detection and NLP analysis on 50K+ Tweets; deployed recommender chatbot using Rasa + React.js.

Projects

RISC-V Processor

Built 6-stage RV32IM processor with branch prediction and caching; achieved 2390 MIPS/W.

Dynamic Memory Allocator

Implemented malloc/calloc/recalloc with 76% memory utilization and 10.5K ops/sec throughput.

Simulated Cache

Modeled LRU cache policies and applied loop tiling to improve matrix transpose performance 10x.

COSMOS at UC San Diego

Cluster 13 Researcher: July 2022 - August 2022

GitHub Code

Presentation

San Diego, CA


REMEMBER20

Co-Founder: March 2020 - Present

REMEMBER20 website

CBS8 Interview

ABC10 Interview

ABC10 Asian in America Special

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

B.S./M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering | Aug 2023 - May 2027

IEEE External Relations Chair, Women in ECE, Society of Women Engineers

Skills

Languages: C, Java, SystemVerilog, Python, R, HTML5/CSS, MATLAB, Assembly (x86, RISC-V)

Tools: Git, Linux, Bash, GDB, VIM, XilinxVivado, VCS, ArcGIS, SCADE

Hardware: Oscilloscope, Signal Analyzer, 3D Printing, Soldering

Achievements