Astrocade
Bay Area
April 2023-Today
Joined as an early employee of this startup!
An eclectic researcher and engineer interested in AI, art, side-projects, philosophy, and many more things.
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This is a little portfolio of stuff I've built or worked on, both the big career-type things and the various side projects and small hackd.
Big Team Projects
PhD Thesis
Stanford AI Lab
August 2018-June 2023
My PhD! See more in 'Research' projects
The Gradient
The internet
August 2017-Today
A digital magazine that aims to democratize research in AI and machine learning
Skynet Today
The internet
August 2017-Today
A platform for AI experts to explain AI concepts and news to the general public
The SAIL Blog
The internet
November 2018-December 2020
The Stanford AI Lab Blog
AI Salon
The internet
November 2018-May 2019
AI Lab gatherings to discuss high-level topics in AI and machine learning
OSM
Oracle
June 2015-July 2017
Developing a prototype and then a new product from scratch to beta release
AgriBot
Georgia Tech, senior design for the EE degree
August 2014-April 2015
A robotic rover for autonomously mapping and spraying plants
GT Solar Racing
Georgia Tech
August 2012-May 2015
Working with a bunch of students to build a solar racing car
AI Projects
Georgia Tech
August 2013-April 2015
Projects for Georgia Tech's Intro to AI class
FIRST Robotics
Walton High School
August 2011-May 2012
Building game-playing robots in high school
Research
All publications listed here.
Scene Graph Memory
Stanford Vision Lab
March 2022 - May 2023
Search with Memory
Learning of Mobile Manipulation
Stanford Vision Lab
March 2021 - December 2021
Via imitation learning from teleoperation data
Hierarchical Mech Search
Stanford Vision Lab
March 2020 - December 2020
Search with Semantics
Visuomotor Mech Search
Stanford Vision Lab
July 2019 - July 2020
AC-Teach for mech-search
RL With Teachers
Stanford Vision Lab
November 2018 - July 2019
Faster Reinforcement Learning with Human Intuition
Mechanical Search
Stanford Vision Lab
May 2018 - February 2019
Finding objects via interactive physical search
Task Aware Grasping
Stanford Vision Lab
September 2017 - February 2018
Tackling the not-at-all-solved problem of task-aware grasping
DeformNet Grasp Transfer
Stanford Vision Lab
May 2017-Nov 2017
Robotic Grasp Transfer Done Via Deep-Learning Powered Deformation
DeformNet
Stanford Vision Lab
January 2017-May 2017
Free-Form Deformation Network for 3D Shape Reconstruction from a Single Image
Teaching Robots Skill Constraints
Georgia Tech, Socially Intelligent Machines lab
August 2014-May 2015
Published research evaluating how to teach robots skill constraints
Memristor Brains
EPFL, Microelectronic Systems Lab
June-August 2014
Exploring the feasibility of implementing hardware neural nets using memristors
Learning from Failure
CMU, Personal Robotics Lab
June-August 2013
Improved robot planning by learning from prior mistakes
MRSim
Georgia Tech, Opportunity Research Scholars (ORS)
August 2012-May 2013
A simulation engine for testing MapReduce configurations
Major Side Projects
AI Wiki
OpenAI hackathon, @home
February-April 2018
A wiki specifically for AI, to centralize knowledge and documentation
KerasJS3D
Stanford, CS148
July-August 2017
A class project to create 3D visualization of Neural Network outputs
DeepCrop
Stanford, CS229
October-December 2016
A class project modifying a state of the art AI model
Planr
The Internetz
September-March 2016
An app to create social plans with friends powered by the Yelp API
TransitTimes
Bay Area, hackmyride2 challenge
Fall 2015
Beacon-based notifications about when the bus or train will get to your stop
Personal Site
The internet
July-November 2015
Meta! This site was quite the project, why not tell you all about it while you're here
FlipSwitch
Georgia Tech - GTHacks initially, followed by a revised approach for GT Inventure Prize
Fall 2015
Low investment flexible home automation
GradeSeer
Georgia Tech
August 2013-April 2015
Open sourced autograding, plagiarism detection, and GUI-grading tools
MetaMusic
Georgia Tech - GitMad hackathon, then a few weeks of solo work before my internship
April 2013-May 2013
A sweet little app to visualize music metadata on a smartphone
Hacks and small projects
ObjectCropBot
TreeHacks, Stanford
February 18 2017
A site that segments out objects from photos with AI
IMDB Data Viz
Home
July-August 2017
Some fun visualizing movie statistics from IMDB
VividVr
San Francisco
July 17 2016
Method for converting videos to stylized VR worlds
Verbosify
San Francisco
May 7th 2016
A stupid app to make text longer
MiniRoboMe
Georgia Tech, CS 3651
March-April 2015
A little teleoperated robot based on Android
SpreadSheet-OCR
Georgia Tech, ECE 4580
March-April 2014
Entirely custom implementation of OCR to extract spreadsheets
Review Reviewer
Georgia Tech, CS 4650
April 2014
Machine-learned prediction of review helpfulness score
CircuitScan
Emory Hackathon
April 12, 2014
A project to extract digital circuit schematics from circuits
EmailFiler
Georgia Tech, CS 4650
January 2014
A project to categorize emails into categories based on my gmail archives
Silicon 32 Bit Adder
Georgia Tech, ECE 3060
Nov 2013
A silicon-level VLSP implementation of a 32-bit adder
MagicTouch
Georgia Tech, hackathon
Oct 23, 2013
A library for hand tracking on Android
SketchIt3D
MHacks
Sep 20-22, 2013
An app to produce 3D sketches on a smartphone using the camera
SLAMeval
Georgia Tech, CS 3630
April 2013
A little project to evaluate ROS SLAM packages with a Kinect
MusicPie
My room
August 1, 2012
A fun little pie chart of genres based on stored MP3s
SleepNighmare
Georgia Tech
July 2012
Horrifying sleep pattern visualization