Chenyu Lu (Eric Lu) — Portfolio

Hi, my name is Chenyu Lu, but I also go by Eric. I'm a student and developer who enjoys turning technical ideas into projects that people can actually use. This portfolio includes an interactive face-tracking avatar that answers questions about my work, experiences, and interests, along with sections for my projects, technical skills, resume, and contact info.

Projects

Vera — A cross-platform learning platform for my school's Physics Club, with student-made tutorials, authentication, and saved video progress. Built with Flutter, Firebase, REST API, Cloudflare.
Distill — A Chrome extension that simplifies cluttered webpages by hiding ads, navigation clutter, and autoplay media, personalized through eye-tracking calibration. Winner of NGN Hacks 2026. Built with React, Vite, TensorFlow, MediaPipe, FastAPI, Python, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct.
Chaos Roll — A wave-survival game where Gemini generates playable abilities and enemy waves in real time. Won first place at Hack the Valley Hack Day. Built with React, TypeScript, Gemini API.
Face-Tracking Avatar — A browser-based 3D avatar that replays recorded facial expressions, head movement, and speech through a conversational portfolio interface. Built with MediaPipe, Three.js, React, TypeScript.
Pocket Pilot — A mobile app that analyzes receipts and turns them into useful insights about personal spending habits. Built with React Native, Firebase, Gemini API, Cloudinary.
Portfolio Website (earlier version) — An earlier portfolio built with Flutter Web to present my projects, skills, and experience through a space-themed interface.
Integrals Buoyancy Simulator — A C++ physics simulator using calculus and integrals to simulate a ball's net motion when dropped in a liquid with a customizable density. Built with C++, SFML, CMake, GLSL.
Competitive Programming — Solved problems on DMOJ, focusing on the CCC contest, covering data structures, graph theory, and other algorithms. Achieved distinction (top 25%) on CCC Senior 2026.
The Knight — A 2D adventure game with random world generation and a battle and currency system, built with Python and Pygame as a Grade 11 Computer Science CPT project.

Technical Skills

React, JavaScript, Flutter, Dart, C++, Python, Java, Git, SFML, VS Code.

Resume

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Education

St. Robert Catholic High School, Thornhill, ON — International Baccalaureate Diploma & OSSD (Sept 2023 – May 2027).

Achievements

OAPT — 17th in Ontario (May 2026)
CEMC Euclid — Distinction, Score of 79 (Apr 2026)
5 on AP Calculus BC, AP Physics 1, AP Chemistry, and AP Computer Science A (May 2025 – May 2026)
CCC Senior — Distinction (Feb 2026)
CEMC Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest (CSMC) — Distinction, Score of 44 (Nov 2025)
CaYPT — Silver Medalist, 3rd place in Canada (Mar 2025)

Experience

NTU-60 Skeleton-Based Action Recognition Research (Mar 2026 – Present) — Trained and evaluated deep-learning models to recognize human actions from skeleton-motion data for Professor Lei Gao and Kai Liu from Wilfrid Laurier University. Compared multiple graph-based architectures on the NTU RGB+D 60 dataset, tested model-fusion methods, and wrote reports analyzing why weaker models reduced ensemble accuracy.
Spirit of Math Assistant Teacher (Sep 2023 – Present) — Led one-on-one sessions focusing on problem-solving strategies for students in Grades 8–10.
Ski Lakeridge Ski Instructor (Jan 2025 – Present) — Level 2 CSIA Ski Instructor and Level 1 CASI Snowboard Instructor. Taught skiing techniques to individuals ages 4–50 across varying skill levels.

Activities

St. Robert Physics Club Activity Coordinator (Sep 2025 – Present) — Led physics lessons for 30+ students, designing and demonstrating experiments, and mentored students for physics competitions. Incoming 2026–2027 school year president.
Waterloo Quantum School for Young Students (Jul 2026 – Aug 2026) — Studying quantum superposition, entanglement, computing, and cryptography.
St. Robert La Silhouette Activity Coordinator (Jan 2025 – Present) — Designed lesson plans for the French Article writing club; incoming 2026–2027 school year vice-president.
St. Robert STEAM ICAC Trainer (Oct 2025 – May 2026) — Trained students in problem-solving and innovation for the Ontario STEAM ICAC Competition.