Ying Lu

Projects

Movie Recommendation Assistant

August 2026



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Movie Recommendation Assistant


An AI-powered movie recommendation assistant built with Streamlit and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). By combining sentence embeddings and ChromaDB vector search with a local Ollama LLM, the application delivers grounded, context-aware suggestions and film insights across a 100k-movie IMDb dataset—helping families, couples, and movie enthusiasts decide what to watch.

Fall 2026 Final Project



"A Dog's Place" ~ MySpace for dogs

Take the old myspace designed and change its features to reflect what a dog would post like:

  • Profile page: Name, breed, age, location
  • About Page: favorite activites, favorite/least favorite person, prefered snack etc.
  • Blog Entries => Dog Entries

F • R • I • E • N • D • S

July 2025



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FRIENDS API


A full-stack web application built with React.js, HTML5, CSS3, REST APIs, and a SQL database, combining interactive media features. Features dedicated profile pages showcasing character names, iconic quotes, and personality breakdowns—complete with a themed "PIVOT!" back-to-home navigation button. Includes linked detail pages exploring various series topics alongside my personal opinions. Powered by REST API integrations and reliable database migration workflows to ensure clean state management and performance.

WhatsAppDog

October 2025



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WhatsAppDog

Created for Bridgewater State University's Comp390 course. WhatsApp Dog Application A CRM designed for Animal Rescue orginizations in the New England area who focus on domesticlly located animals (i.e. dogs, cat, squirrels, racoons, etc) The end goal is to provide a location where rescues administrators can create an account for their organization to hold and organize data regaurding Staff/volunteers || Inventory || Shelter Occupents || Forms (applciation docs, medial records, etc.)