projects
research, startups, and hackathon builds.
Collaborative 3D workspace for mechanistic interpretability research: multiple users can spatially navigate a neural network's layers, observe activations, and annotate behaviors together in real time. Built to make AI black boxes tangible for safety researchers. Selected to demo at Capital Factory.
AI security proxy that sits between autonomous agents and their tools, inspecting JSON-RPC traffic to enforce strict security policies and block adversarial threats in real time. Evolved from AegisMesh, an earlier C++ ingestion-layer defense system. Selected to demo at Capital Factory.
FSO Network Simulator
Custom GNU Radio OOT module simulating atmospheric Free-Space Optical signal degradation, bridging ns-3 and PyTorch to train adaptive Deep Reinforcement Learning agents for proactive mesh traffic rerouting.
Subtle-T: The Social Anchor
Discreet haptic bracelet using a TensorFlow.js model to analyze HRV, BPM, and accelerometer data to mitigate social anxiety through rhythmic entrainment, with React and Web Bluetooth API for live sensor visualization.
DocBot
RAG system with a ChromaDB vector database backend for context-aware document Q&A, with Gemini API integration for multi-chat conversations. Overall winner at the Tapia Conference Gen AI Hackathon.
Renewable Energy Data Lakehouse
Scalable GCP data lakehouse unifying structured and unstructured renewable energy sources, with ELT pipelines using Apache Iceberg tables, dbt transformations, and Vertex AI for structured attribute extraction.
CityBuddies
Social platform (React Native, Node.js) helping relocating graduates find community, with a Python recommendation algorithm achieving 83% fit with 30 beta testers. Won Best Overall at New Venture Mechanics.
PintOS
Full OS implementation including user program execution, syscall handlers for process lifecycle, virtual memory with demand paging, and a hierarchical inode-based file system with indexed data block allocation.
Mobile app enabling wildlife exploration and AI-powered trading card generation from photos. Integrated OpenAI API for custom wildlife cards and Google Maps API for local species discovery. Best Overall Design at HackTX.
Dancing Robot
Sawyer robot arm that learns and performs dance routines through imitation learning and behavior cloning techniques from 3D human motion capture data.
Secure clothing swap marketplace for UT Austin students with UT EID authentication, size-based filtering, and value-estimation logic for equitable swaps.
OMAR
Order Management Accounts Receivable suite for startups, with automated jsPDF invoice generation and Google Analytics Reporting API integration for financial health dashboards.
Revolving Taco Bar
Dish return system using color scanners for automated cost tracking and multilingual POS. A full UX/design project from user research to prototype. Won Best Idea and Best Presentation.
Structured card and notepad system designed to reduce cognitive overload during medical consultations, helping patients stay informed and ask the right questions. Developed through the UT Impact Lab / Inventors Program and presented at the Undergraduate Research Forum.