Sarah Zhang
510-717-5351
sa08@berkeley.edu
2021
Education
2025
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts Major Architecture
Bachelor of Arts Minor Sustainable Planning
2017
2021
Bishop Strachan School
High School Diploma Distinguished scholar
Experiences
2024 January - Present
Research Assistant on the Collective Comfort Project
Working under the guidance of Professor Liz Gálvez, responsibilities include conducting site analyses and assisting in the creation of building programs for the designing of a cooling center to address the challenges posed by extreme heat and limited electrical supply in the city of Phoenix.
2022 - 2023 May
Research Assistant on Mapping Infrastructures in Medieval India
Used ArcGIS to generate user an interactive map of the inscriptions in medieval India. Evalu-ated and entered data entries into spreadsheets, attend weekly meetings to discuss meaningful trends and statistics.
2022
Others
July
Architecture Association
Art and Architecture Summer Program
2019
June
The Cooper Union of Science and Art
Architecture Summer Program
Competitions and Volunteering
2023 Summer
Participant of architecture competitions
2021-Present
Freelance Photographer
Spend 5-10 hours per week on taking and processing portraitures and graduation photos for mostly students in Berkeley. Took professional photo-shoot for varies student groups, including the Berkeley Chinese Student and Scholar Association, the Tiny Theater.
2022-Present
Member of the Professional and Social Committee of Alpha Rho Chi
Participated in weekly brothers meetings. Roles include inviting guest speakers, connecting and reaching out to Berkeley alumni, or-ganizing social events.
2022
Editor of student run publication Caliber
Published photo series, such as “The Life and Death of Architecture”, to invite thoughts for discussion.
Lead a team of college students to participate in the Art temporary installation competition by NewArch, and the Museum of Emotion competition. Organized weekly meetings, faciliated conversations.
2016 - 2019
Art Initiative and Fundraising
Fundraised for the sick kids by seeking for peers that share the same vision, planning an art auction together to allow the communi-ties’s artist’s work to be seen and purchased.
Awards and Recognitions
Architecture
New Arch Competition 2023 Finalist
Arts
Scholastic regional silver award - Mix media
Scholastic regional gold award - Photography
Business and Technology
Technovation: North American Region winner for the 2019 Technova-tion Award. Interest expressed from the WHO to the app MyVenus.
Skills
Languages
Mandarin
English (moderate)
French
Others
Python (intermediate level)
Softwares
Rhinoceros, Revit
Enscape, Vray, D5
Midjourney
Adobe Creative Suites