Selected projects

Dual-Mode Language-Model Mobile Assistant

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

A multilingual, dual-mode assistive navigation application integrated with InnoSpire smart glasses for visually impaired and blind users.

• - Built a cross-platform React Native application supporting object recognition, obstacle awareness, and transit guidance.
• - Implemented switching between an online GPT-4o workflow and offline Phi-3-mini and YOLOv5 workflows based on connectivity.
• - Evaluated performance with image datasets and multilingual surveys involving visually impaired, blind, and sighted participants.

• React Native
• GPT-4o
• Phi-3-mini
• YOLOv5
• TensorFlow.js
• Accessibility

Boston Freedom Trail Walking Guide

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

A mobile-optimized guide that makes exploring Boston's Freedom Trail more interactive through live location, historic information, user accounts, and progress badges.

• - Built with Next.js and MongoDB and deployed on Vercel.
• - Implemented Google OAuth and encrypted local authentication, backend logic for location nodes and badges, and Nodemailer workflows for password resets and business-account requests.
• - Supported business listings, persistent user progress, and nearby points of interest.

• Next.js
• MongoDB
• NextAuth
• Leaflet
• Nodemailer
• Vercel

AI Travel Itinerary and Booking Assistant

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

A hybrid travel assistant that generated itineraries and surfaced flight and hotel listings using large and small language models.

• - Developed and prompt-engineered the assistant in a team of five using Llama and Phi models.
• - Integrated the Amadeus API for real-time flight and hotel data.
• - Built fallback logic with the Phi small language model to support offline functionality and presented a functional prototype.

• Python
• Llama
• Phi
• Amadeus API
• Prompt Engineering

Improving Brand Recognition and Association for Poetry Organizations

Worcester Polytechnic Institute · Berlin Project Center

A mixed-method research project for Haus für Poesie examining brand association across the organization and its subsidiaries.

• - Identified a potential gap in brand association through research and user feedback.
• - Recommended website and logo updates, stronger integration of subsidiary information, and backend website optimization.
• - Served as project manager for a four-person team and coordinated milestones in Notion.

• Mixed-Method Research
• Python
• Data Analysis
• Project Management
• Notion

Seats4U Ticketing Application

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

A scalable ticketing application developed by a four-person software-engineering team using an AWS backend and React frontend.

• - Planned the application with use cases and UML diagrams.
• - Implemented REST-based communication and a SQL database for venues, shows, and tickets.

• AWS
• React
• JavaScript
• SQL
• REST APIs
• UML

Seasonal LED Tree Sculpture

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

A PVC tree sculpture with 300 individually addressable LEDs and programmed animations that reflect the changing seasons.

• - Used a Pixelblaze Wi-Fi LED controller to drive the sculpture.
• - Wrote JavaScript animation code that runs the seasonal cycle whenever the sculpture is powered on.

• JavaScript
• Pixelblaze
• LEDs
• Physical Computing

Permanent Housing in Mindoro, Philippines

Worcester Polytechnic Institute · Shelter the World

A low-cost housing-complex proposal designed to improve resistance to flooding and typhoons in Mindoro, Philippines.

• - Developed multiple design iterations in a four-person team.
• - Documented the housing design, background, and construction timeline in a research paper and poster.
• - Received the Shelter the World poster award from project judges.

• Research
• Design
• Resilient Housing
• Teamwork

Assessing Elderly Well-Being Through Plant Care

Treasure Valley Math and Science Center · AP Capstone

An AP Research study examining how the difficulty of caring for a succulent versus a Jester's Crown fern affected the mental-health benefits experienced by elderly caretakers.

• - Recruited participants, designed and executed the experiment, and produced a research paper and presentation.

• AP Research
• Experimental Design
• Participant Recruitment
• Academic Writing

FIRST Robotics Rookie Team Training

Programming training that helped six new Idaho FIRST Robotics teams bring up their robots and establish a reusable Java code framework.

• - Developed example code and presentation slides, taught live sessions, and recorded training materials for future use.

• Java
• FIRST Robotics
• Teaching
• Mentorship

Idaho Humane Society Serenity Garden

An Eagle Scout service project that created a serenity garden for Idaho Humane Society employees and animals.

• - Fundraised through GoFundMe and donations from local stores.
• - Directed approximately 30 Scouts and Scout leaders in building a pergola, installing a stone path and plants, and restoring outdoor furniture.

• Leadership
• Fundraising
• Volunteer Coordination
• Project Planning

Task Tracking Website

A task manager with create, update, delete, authentication, and priority-based sorting functionality.

• Next.js
• Tailwind CSS
• NextAuth
• TypeScript

Build a Board Game

A data-science project that modeled board-game ratings and used local-search algorithms to generate game concepts predicted to receive strong ratings.

• Python
• Regression
• Local Search
• Jupyter

Analyzing Car Sales

An exploratory analysis of car-sales data using Python and Pandas.

• Python
• Pandas
• Data Analysis

Square Push

A browser-based game created while learning React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• React
• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS
• Game Development

Platformer

A platform game created while learning Python and Pygame.

• Python
• Pygame
• Game Development

Roguelike

A roguelike game created while learning Python, Pygame, and procedural generation.

• Python
• Pygame
• Procedural Generation