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California Institute of Technology

2023 Track & Field

Rucheng Pan

  • Height 5-9
  • Year Sophomore
  • Hometown Brookfield, Wisc.
  • High School Brookfield East
  • Events Throws

Biography

Research and STEM Activities

Completed a summer undergraduate research fellowship (SURF) this past summer... Under the mentorship of Grant Vousden-Dishington, a research scientist at the Anti-Defamation League, built an support vector machine (SVM) algorithm to recognize tweets with hateful sentiments... Teaching Assistant at Princeton University's AI4ALL summer program where she planned Python review sessions and assisted in computer vision research groups... Interned at Northwestern Mutual in the Enterprise Data division.

Prior to Caltech

Academic Honors: National Merit Finalist... Coca-Cola Scholarship Recipient... NCWIT Aspirations National HM... Milwaukee Reverse Pitch Runner-Up.

Athletic Honors: Greater Metro Conference All-Academic.

Personal

Daughter of Bin and Tao... Older sister to Phoebe... Favorite part about Caltech is the location... Favorite part about Caltech Athletics is the fact that everyone is understanding.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022First-Year

    Throws
    5'9"
  • 2023Sophomore

    Throws
    5'9"