Long-term work, research, and things built under pressure.
2024 · Co-founder
“Crop phenology for farmers who can't afford to be wrong.”
Co-founded an app delivering crop phenology and financial tools to small-scale farmers. It started as a hackathon project, placed in Buildspace's S5 Top 32, and was presented at WebSummit Lisbon and SXSW. Backed by Emergent Ventures and The Iris Project.
Backing
Emergent Ventures · Iris Project · Rideau Hall Foundation
React Native · ML · Agriculture · Startup
2026 · Builder
A members-only funding directory for Engineering@Carolina: every grant, investor, and pitch competition a student founder at UNC might need, kept current by the club. Grants and investors are split by whether they take equity, pitch competitions cut across both, and only members an admin has approved can see any of it.
Next.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Supabase Auth
2023 · Co-host
Co-host of a podcast bringing together leaders in business, technology, and science to find the signal in the noise. 30+ episodes to date with guests ranging from founders to professors to investors like Harry Gandhi of 1517 Fund.
Podcast · Media · Interviews
2024 · Student Researcher
Developing a fully-waterproof, pose and movement-tracking glove for swimmers, designed to optimize hand positioning and improve performance for UNC athletes.
Hardware · Signal Processing · Sports Tech
2024 · Self-directed
Rebuilt a Shakespearean LLM to understand the architecture of GPT models, following Andrej Karpathy's curriculum: a character-level, 6-layer, 6-head transformer with 384-dimensional embeddings and a 256-character context, trained from scratch in PyTorch on Shakespeare's text.
Python · PyTorch · NLP · Transformers
2023 · Independent Research
Researched food supply pressures from a first-principles perspective. Developed a computer vision algorithm for drones to identify and treat corn disease in real-time. A PyTorch CNN trained on PlantVillage leaf images tells healthy leaves apart from common rust, northern leaf blight, and gray leaf spot with about 92% test accuracy.
Computer Vision · Python · Agriculture
An interactive map of community stress around all 23,595 US public high schools, built on Johns Hopkins' ODIS data. A Python pipeline recovered 99.98% of spreadsheet-corrupted school IDs and ran national and regional analyses, and a plain-English "Ask the map" bar, powered by Jev (TypeSafe AI) with a Claude Haiku fallback, lets anyone query it.
Python · GeoPandas · React · MapLibre · deck.gl · Jev
The ultimate interactive poker glasses with live winning percentages and betting strategies. A camera on a Raspberry Pi 5 reads the cards with OpenCV, a hand evaluator scores them, and the GPT API speaks the next play into Bluetooth headphones.
AR · Computer Vision · Real-time Processing
An interactive, multilingual AI coach to help visa applicants prepare for interviews and navigate the immigration process. Applicants rehearse with Clara, a HeyGen video avatar powered by the GPT API, in a Next.js app.
AI · NLP · Immigration
Built a BCI that interprets brainwaves to generate artwork reflecting the user's emotional state. EEG from an OpenBCI headset streams through a Flask backend, and Midjourney paints the result.
BCI · ML · EEG · Creative Tech