About
I am a junior studying Computer Science at the University of Kansas. My interests include, but are not limited to:
- Parallel Scientific Computing
- Securing the Internet of Things (IoT)
- Music Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Machine Learning (ML)
- Computing Education
Notable positions that I have held include the following:
- Undergraduate Research Fellow at the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas.
- Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Information Sciences at the University of Kansas.
- Supplemental Instructor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas.
- Participant at the Student Cluster Competition at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC23)
- Summer Software Engineer Intern at Garmin International
- Summer Undergraduate Research Intern at the Purdue School of Engineering & Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
- Vice President of the Information Security Club at the University of Kansas.
- Vice President of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computing Honor Society Student Chapter at the University of Kansas.
I am excited to announce that I will be returning to Garmin as a Summer Software Engineer Intern!
Selected Projects
I work on multiple projects in addition to my required computer science coursework. Many are direct results of my explorations in my research interests. The following are select projects I am extremely proud of & have made decent progress:
MuseEQ Suite
This is an award-winning project for Hack K-State 2022, a 36-hour hackathon that occured November 2022. I collaborated within a 3-person team to develop a GTK minimal digital audio workstation (DAW) & full-stack React Native mobile app. The novelty of this project includes timbres being user-defined equations parsed by our implementation of Dijkstra’s Shunting Yard algorithm. Audio mixing is multithreaded with Python’s Threading module. This project won Best Use of AppWrite, a self-hosted, no-code back-end solution.
Sentinel IoT Camera
This project involves developing the ESP32-CAM microcontroller to securely connect to network by receiving credentials via HTTPS. The novelty of this project includes managing device certificates with a Node.js REST API. End users receive the device certificate by scanning the device’s QR code, which contains the certificate’s GET request link. This project is inspired by Bitdefender white paper titled Ring Video Doorbell Pro Under the Scope, which outlines a vulnerability that allows an attacker to intercept device owner’s network credentials. This is an ongoing project that began August 2022.
Pineapple Math
This is an award-winning project for Hack KU 2022, a 36-hour hackathon that occured April 2022. I collaborated within a 4-person team to develop a full-stack web app with Node.js, Express.js, & MongoDB. This app helps students learn math, allows teachers to post assignments, & animates word problems. Project won 1st place in the Education Themed Track & Best Use of GitHub.
Interfere Free Calc
This project is a minimal audio player & visualizer for mathematical equations. This project entirely developed in Java. Development lasted from March 2021 to August 2021.
Interfere Cascade
This project is a MIDI tracker that I worked on during the senior year of high school. This project was inspired by my interest in retro computer music. What makes this project unique is how users can display notes in the command line with specified colors for the note text & background at a given timestep. Here is a short song I composed entirely with Cascade that best exhibits this feature! The editor was entirely developed in Java. Development lasted from October 2020 to August 2021.