Zhanbo Chen

AI Application Development Engineer

zhanboc2@illinois.edu github.com/2Anblo linkedin.com/in/zhanbo-chen-884913296

Profile

Master's student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, bachelor's graduate in Computer Science and Technology from Capital Normal University (Rank 5%). Focused on AI application development and Java backend engineering, with practical experience in microservices architecture, Docker sandboxing, and LLM integration. Participated in the autonomous driving simulation project at NEVC, and led the development of an online programming training platform and an AI music creation platform.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Computer Science · Master

2026-08 - 2028-05

Rank: N/A

Capital Normal University

Computer Science and Technology · Bachelor

2022-09 - 2026-07

Rank: 5%

Skills

Java90%

Core development language; familiar with high concurrency, JVM, and the Spring ecosystem

Spring Boot88%

Primary backend framework; familiar with RESTful API design and microservices decomposition

Spring Cloud Alibaba82%

Microservices architecture: Nacos, Gateway, service registration and discovery

Docker80%

Containerization and code sandbox construction; familiar with images, networking, and isolated execution

JavaScript / ES678%

Frontend and full-stack development; familiar with Vue.js and Node.js

AI / LLM Integration82%

Large language model application development; wrapping Python AI capabilities with FastAPI

Git / Linux85%

Team collaboration workflows, version control, Linux operations and deployment

Computer Science Fundamentals80%

Computer networks, algorithms and data structures, operating systems, computer organization

Projects

Online Programming Training Platform

A microservices-based coding practice system with large language model support

An online judge and intelligent Q&A system built on Spring Cloud Alibaba, with a multilingual code sandbox and extensible judging strategies.

JavaSpring Cloud AlibabaSpring BootNacosDockerMySQLRedisLLM

Built a microservices architecture with Spring Cloud Alibaba, separating user, problem, judging, and intelligent Q&A services.
Used Nacos for service registration and discovery to support reliable calls between services.
Designed the online judging module and a Docker-based execution sandbox to isolate submitted code, evaluate results, and record execution details.

MusicLens AI Music Creation and Analysis Platform

AI-powered music generation, sentiment analysis, and work management

A decoupled AI music platform offering music generation, work management, sentiment analysis, AI cover art, and text recognition in images.

Spring BootFastAPIPythonAI APIVue.jsMySQL

Designed a decoupled architecture and built back-end services for users and administrators with Spring Boot.
Built a separate FastAPI service around Python AI capabilities, including music sentiment analysis.
Integrated third-party AI services for music generation from prompts and lyrics, AI cover generation, and OCR.

Contact

zhanboc2@illinois.edu github.com/2Anblo linkedin.com/in/zhanbo-chen-884913296