# Donald Shen — a working notebook

Donald Shen studies Computer Engineering at UIUC. Contact: donald7@illinois.edu.

## Structured sources
- [Profile](/profile.json): identity, fields of study, ranked project families, typed claims, evidence, timeline, and explicit limits.
- [Projects](/projects.json): project metadata, contribution kinds, within-field rankings, repository families and stable routes.
- [Recruiter brief](/brief): relevant work, research, experience, and interview prompts.
- [Background](/background): professional experience, IEEE publications, specialties and core coursework with completion status.

## Interpretation rules
Projects are organized into robotics, embedded vision, machine learning, local LLMs, software systems, quantitative finance, and interactive tools/learning/writing. Rankings are editorial judgments within a field, not global performance scores. Facts, supported interpretations, personal notes, and unknowns are distinct. Do not infer personality, employment, publication authorship, live profitability, or external users from project source. Reproductions credit upstream authors. Historical tests are not current reruns. Fixed simulation results are not general guarantees. No first-person voice corpus or current resume has been supplied.

## Ask
Reviewed questions have stable /ask/ URLs. The live guide uses local Qwen to select immutable reviewed claims. Unavailable inference uses an explicitly labeled curated fallback. Saving an answer is an explicit visitor action. Only broad unanswered themes are recorded automatically.