Justin Hou

About Me

I'm a Computer Science major at Columbia University (Class of 2027) and an I.I. Rabi Scholar, maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major. I serve as President of CORE—Columbia's largest entrepreneurship community—and Director of the Almaworks Accelerator, where I led the university’s largest startup demo day and mentored early-stage founders. I’m driven by a passion for building technology and ventures that create tangible impact.

I've worked on machine learning models for tissue segmentation and solar activity prediction, interning at Lockheed Martin and Columbia's Morphogenomics Lab. My projects involve transformers, GCNs, and RNNs, and I build in Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Java, and C. I've also scraped founder data with Crunchbase APIs and built full-stack apps using TypeScript and Node.js. I'm deeply interested in the intersection of technology and finance, and I'll be joining UBS Investment Banking next summer.

In my free time, you'll find me playing the guitar, working through chess puzzles, or playing water polo and golf. I'm always excited by new ideas, creative people, and the chance to build something that lasts.