• Students taking Columbia’s famous and required Core Curriculum classes often have packed schedules
• Changing into a new course section can involve long waitlists and uncertainty
• Alternatively, students can find a partner and swap sections with one another. This website facilitates such swaps by introducing suitable partners to one another.

• A website all about what I’ve been doing.
• Utilizes a custom version of Masonry for extra-exciting presentation.

• Traditional methods of controlling quantum bits (qubits) rely on computationally-expensive optimization software
• Using machine learning, we can approximate such results with significantly fewer computational resources and at higher speed
• Designing a hardware accelerator would allow for such computation to occur directly within the low-temperature domains of a quantum computer, opening up new avenues for quantum computer design while decreasing costs and improving performance

This research is a collaborative effort between Columbia University and Fermilab.

Hospitals are currently exceeding capacity and strained for resources. Yet, in many cases, nurses and doctors must stay near patients to listen for alarms. Not only does this increase the exposure risk, it also further exacerbates the resource shortages.

While newer machines may support central telemetry, the majority of devices don’t. In addition, not only is it expensive to replace them, such a replacement results in substantial time costs from order processing, setup, and training.

Thus, this system was designed. It transmits audio signals from numerous rooms to doctors’ computers, decreasing exposure and also increasing efficiency while improving patient care. Now, each doctor can monitor many patients via a powerful web or desktop interface. At the same time, each patient can now be monitored by numerous doctors.

In the end, this system aims to provide cheap, reliable, and secure patient monitoring for hospitals. The device is scheduled to be tested in hospitals soon.

• Modeled after string instruments such as the ukulele or the guitar
• On-the-fly configuration allows rapid changing of instrument or “capo position” (i.e., musical key)
• A joystick allows users to “pluck” digital strings
• Fret buttons encode information densely, allowing a larger range of musical expression in a smaller form factor
• Hardware interface is managed by an ESP32 which transmits user inputs to a Raspberry Pi for visual and auditory synthesis

• 2nd Place Winner of Digikey Best Hardware Hack at MakeHarvard 2021 (submitted with instructor permission)

• Created as part of the Columbia Creative Embedded Systems course

Applications:

• Rehabilitation (my friend recently tore his ACL, he hopes this will make physical therapy measurements less painful)
• Augmented reality control (the sensor sheet can be cut to a hand shape, sensing finger bending and contact)
• Sports monitoring (providing measurement of both posture and impacts)

Technical Documentation (code at end)

Demo Video

Thank you to SAIL and mHealth for funding this project.

• Stepper and servo motors work together to choreograph the movement of a single RGB LED
• A long-exposure photograph of the device in the dark produces light paintings

• The paintings can be drawn using a provided web app or converted from a pre-existing photo using a Python script

• Created for Columbia’s Creative Embedded Systems course

So many lectures are being held virtually right now. What if we could preserve and share them all?

Compatible with both iOS and Android, Vybe is a navigation wearable that aims to get you to your destination quickly and safetly – with no sounds or visuals to distract. Never again will you have to risk a glance at your phone while approaching a busy intersection.

Utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy and a custom haptics stack, we aim to make navigation both safe and intuitive.

Our company began at a hackathon, where we developed the initial prototype of the Vybe. After a big win there, we went on to interview at Y-Combinator and have not stopped improving on it since.

• A Pong game is split across three devices. The left and right players control paddles while the middle player can influence the ball
• The Pong game is rendered only on the screen where the ball currently is
• The other two devices show generative art interfaces
• However, when the ball reaches your screen, the work of art you’ve created is deleted
• Keep the ball away so you can enjoy the creative process!
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• Control of game state is transferred between devices using ESP-NOW, allowing for a low-power, lag-free experience
• Created for Columbia’s Creative Embedded Systems course

• Fully-programmable microcontroller created in Logisim.
• 16-bit ISA

• Given a particle’s initial position and velocity, the microcontroller was programmed to output the particle’s position over time if it were to collide elastically within a rigid container of a given size.

• Using localized communications, augmented shopping carts and baskets detect proximity of other such devices
• Alerts shoppers of their proximity, encouraging social distancing
• Can be used in conjunction with incentives (e.g., discounts for safe shoppers)
• Additionally serves as a powerful customer analytics platform

• Utilizes a custom 96-LED matrix arranged in an 8” tall cylinder
  • Prototype shown above, without wooden frame
• Drop a new piece… or flip a column or spin a ring
• Fast and fun, this project came complete with flowing animations
• Best of all, the matrix and controller were designed to enable full-board displays with only a few connections using persistence-of-vision tricks
  • You could make your own for a few dollars!
• Created with a team for the Columbia Art of Engineering Project Expo

• Lanterns swing and sway with the “wind”
• They are randomized in shape and size
• Graphics are rendered on a Raspberry Pi which outputs the result to a projector
  • Photo shown above, however some camera-induced blur is present in the image
• Created for Columbia Creative Embedded Systems course

Sporting an in-browser code editor, this game allows players to write their own algorithms to control agents which compete with one another in weekly challenges. Rather than competing for the highest score as with many algorithmic competitions, instead the agents are free to interact with, aid, and sabotage one another.

• Connect to the device’s Wi-Fi access point to receive its communications
• Follow its hints and taunting messages to find where the last player hid the device
• Then, hide the device somewhere for someone else to find later!
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• Designed as a socially-interactive work of art despite social distancing requirements

• Powered by a ESP32 which hosts the web server, acts as a Wi-Fi access point, and manages the connected presence and motion sensors

• Created as part of the Columbia Creative Embedded Systems course

Designed to work alongside a course at Columbia University, this series of exercises was designed to show the speed of new browser technologies such as WebAssembly and WebGPU relative to traditional methods such as JavaScript and C.

Examples currently include linked list traversal and matrix multiplication.

Developed as a fun and fair game to play with friends and strangers around the world, Peww began as a simple top-down game and has been evolving ever since. Another game is coming soon!

• Weigh your ingredients while cooking and Nutriscient will automatically track your nutrition for you
• RFID-based ingredient identification
• Easy calibration procedure provides sub-gram accuracy

• Steady-state detection algorithms allow for precise measurements in under a second

• Created with a team of 3 for Columbia’s Internet of Things course

Utilizing the Spotify API, this website crafts a playlist of songs for you based on a single phrase and optionally a list of genres. There’s no way I’m the first person who’s wanted to listen to a playlist about “chicken nuggets”.

• Do you find yourself always making the same meals?

• Using Stourmet, you can find actively-discounted recipes so you can try out something new!

• Automatically gathers recipe, ingredient, and price data from external APIs
• Powered by Ruby on Rails
• Created with a team of 4 for Columbia’s Advanced Software Engineering course

• Features a grouping system so you can meet new friends while talking to people you already know
• Accessible via Android, iOS, or web app
• Powered by Node.js, React Native, Socket.io, and WebRTC

• Utilized inertial sensors to perform dead reckoning
• Costs under $20
• Designed as an attachment compatible with standard pens
• Prototype video

• Wearing a mask has been shown to reduce the spreading of disease
• Yet, many refuse to do so, even in crowded public areas
• Many businesses currently refuse service without a mask, but it is up to employees to enforce this
  • This setup leads to conflict and exposes employees to risk
• This API provides a free online endpoint that any service can integrate, providing a fast and effective AI-powered mask check
• Sample applications include in-app verification for delivery drivers, entry checks in brick-and-mortar shops, or even customer verification when calling a taxi
• Powered by TensorFlow and OpenCV

While many educational institutions rely on a long list of services to enable virtual instruction, this system aims to combine all of those technologies in one place.

Features lecture recordings, video meetings, assignment submission, customized online worksheets, and more.

Traditionally, an autonomous routine for a VEX robot is carefully planned, implemented, and tuned over the course of several days. However, some teams may not have the programming skill or time to do so. More importantly, even the most skilled programmer can’t develop a perfect routine without any testing in the midst of a competition.

This system allows a human driver to control the robot via a controller, recording the user’s actions. Then, during competition, the routine can be played back, recreating the motions via precise control systems utilizing PID controllers, velocity measurements, voltage readings, and sensor values.

The system can been exceptionally useful for designing an autonomous routine to synergize with an alliance’s strategy or to foil an opponent’s plans.

Developed to aid in the college essay brainstorming process, this website serves as a simple tool to craft essays on. With the necessary metrics upfront and no distractions, users are able to experiment with essay ideas. They can also leave and take a break – when they come back, their essay will be waiting for them thanks to local storage capabilities.

SpecPlanner seeks to help facilitate the care of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It provides a streamlined calendar-esque tracking interface which allows parents to keep records of good and bad behaviors.

Place two hands in the air and play away. By moving your hands and bending your fingers, you can play a five-octave piano as if it were right in front of you.

Note: Leap Motion sensor required.

Designed as a free alternative to expensive gaming consoles, users can use a computer as the display while controlling the games from phones or tablets.

Note: The hosted version is set to always run a snake game. Make sure you have at least one “display” and two “controllers” connected – either on separate devices or separate tabs.

• With the closing of schools around the world, many are missing out on yearbook signing – a chance to share lasting messages with the people they’ve gone to school with for years.
• While some solutions exist, they rely on cumbersome login and account creation systems.
• YRBK.live is designed to be quick, secure, and registration-free. Via the usage of unique URLs, students can share their page so anyone can leave a message in an instant. Yet, only the owner can view these personal messages.
• (This website, frontend and backend, was made in a day. It’s not the prettiest haha….)

Winning a prize from Project Green Challenge, this website speaks about the dangers of air pollution with smooth scroll-based animations.

Created as a way to practice with my Quiz Bowl team, this website allows anyone to join a room with a computer or mobile device. Then, users can buzz-in at any time, with the earliest buzzes displayed to all.

Note: make sure you have at least one “display” and one “controller” connected – either on separate devices or separate tabs. The initial load time may be slow, as the system is hosted on a free Heroku dyno.

Pick a song and watch them move. Drag the heads to have some fun, or relax as these virtual bobbleheads move with the music.