Projects

Blackhole Simulation

C++

A raytracer with a gravitational lensing approximation written in C++

• Looks pretty cool

Analysis of Racial Bias in LendingClub Loans

Python, Pandas, Seaborn, Statsmodels

Statistical analysis on the real-world lending data of 25 000 000+ loan applications for the Citadel Summer Datathon

• Computed average loan acceptance rate by zip-code and mapped it to US Census demographic data
• Applied multiple linear regression to control for different variables that could affect loan status
• Uncovered racial bias by finding a statistically significant (p-value=0.036) relationship between racial demographics and loan rejection rates
• Designed captivating and informative data visualizations using Seaborn

CourseAid

Python, Django, WebRTC, Redis, WebSocket, SQLite

A roulette-style tutoring system with a Django backend that connects students to teachers on a first-come first-serve basis

• Utilized Redis to quickly access and store information about users in the queue
• Designed a queuing algorithm pairing students with available tutors by course code

FPGA Neural Network

VHDL, Python, Tensorflow

A multilayer perceptron as a digital circuit written in VHDL

• Used registers to store pre-trained weights for digital neurons
• Calculated weightings by training a Tensorflow model on the Iris Flower dataset achieving an accuracy of 97%
• Applied a sigmoid activation function to neuron outputs for classification

ONPass

TypeScript, React Native, Google Cloud Vision, Firebase, Magnus UI

A vaccine passport and contact tracing system with consumer side and enterprise side mobile applications

• Applied optical character recognition using Google Cloud Vision to pull data from vaccine receipt images and verify it against a Firebase realtime database
• Implemented QR code generation to store vaccine information for each user profile

PyCast

Python, Pygame, Numpy

A real-time 3D raytracing engine in Python

• Implemented recursive rendering of reflection, shadows, and diffuse shading
• Used numpy to calculate the intersection of rays with objects in the scene
• Wrote a custom vector class to handle linear algebra functions