I am currently a software engineer at Amazon. I studied at Carnegie Mellon University, majoring in Computer Science and Business Administration. I am always interested in learning about new opportunities to work on teams to solve complex problems that make a positive impact. If you are interested, you can contact me at the email above. I look forward to connecting with you!
Our application detects when the user is making a Facebook post. Users install our application as a Chrome Extension which detects when the user is making a Facebook post. It automatically identifies potential PII in the process of making the post, both in the text box as well as within the uploaded photos. When it identifies potential PII, it warns the user via a pop-up containing the offending information.
A robotic hand performs the ASL alphabet by taking in input text from a computer. The robot hand uses torsion springs that allows the fingers of the hand to be straight. The strings are connected to the base of the string using strings connected to servo motors. These motors pull the strings and thus the fingers of the hands down and to the left and the right, allowing for movement of the hand.
A Leap Motion sensor takes in hand position and movement to translate ASL to English. We then transformed the data to calculate consecutive fingertip distances, finger bend angle, and knuckle slope. We used Linear Discriminant Analysis to recognize the sign the user was creating.
It finds the most notable sections of such a legal document — namely, sections which seem unusual and do not align with typical EULAs — and compiles them into a brief summary. Since it is a Chrome Extension, users can use it directly from their browser when they encounter one of these legal documents. A user would highlight the text they wish to be summarized and would subsequently see a brief summary that lists the most noteworthy parts of the document.
Chord Buddy is an application to help beginner guitar players learn and memorize chords on the guitar. It cycles through chords that the user must play within a few seconds and then tells them if the shape and sound of the chord they played is correct using neural networks to recognize the chord's sound and shape on the fingerboard.
A picture and sound recording is taken of the user playing the chord. The picture is run through a VGG neural network model with four convolutional layers and two dense layers. We added a flatten and dropout layer to prevent overfitting since we have limited data and we used SoftMax activation and categorical cross entropy loss. We trained the model on our data using an augmentation configuration to prevent overfitting.
Moodify is a terminal application that uses machine learning to create personalized Spotify playlists with up to 30 songs that match a certain mood.
It uses machine learning to classify the five hundred most recent tracks saved to a user’s profile into four possible moods: happy, sad, angry, and relaxed. The mood of the user is obtained using either by taking a picture of the user’s face and reading their emotions or by them manually inputting a mood.
Sailaway is a VR boating game with a moving platform that responds to the movement of the VR controllers.
It is a project created for Build18, a weeklong hardware hackathon at Carnegie Mellon University. The objective of the game is collect the coins floating around in the water. The person sits on a moving platform we created that is similar to a turntable. When the person turns the boat, the platform will change direction and speed based on the movement of the VR controllers. This allows the user to feel like they are really sitting in a boat and riding on the waves.
In my free time, I like to do silly projects with friends. We’ve programmed our Anki Vector robot to be sassy, built an unnecessarily complicated Secret Santa gift exchange, and built a program to settle once and for all whether or not there is a Set left among the twelve cards we’ve laid out when playing the card game Set.
I also love to draw and find it really calming to get lost in and focus on a drawing for a few hours.