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As a full-stack developer on this project, I've worked on every aspect of the app including:
- provisioning resources using Terraform
- application code in Django and Python
- Role Based Access Control integrated with Active Directory
- writing custom APIs using Django REST Framework
- frontend UI with JavaScript and Bootstrap
- complete unit and integration testing

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In the summer of 2020, I interned at a robotics company specializing in autonomous wheelchair and floor cleaning robots. Since the opportunity was remote, I worked extensively with simulations in AWS Robomaker. I analyzed the performance of different path planning algorithms and improved obstacle avoidance of the navigation stack in ROS and C++. I also did extensive testing of the navigation stack by running batch simulation jobs overnight in a high fidelity hospital world with moving objects. I then reviewed, documented, and addressed any collisions and 'close calls' flagged during these tests.I also developed support for multi-floor navigation by expanding the UI in PyQt to allow map switching and adding elevator operation into the navigation plan. This involved identifying the touch points during elevator usage and ensuring the design is safe and intuitive in all modes of operation.

I worked on this project during the summer of 2019 at SteamLabs. I helped develop an elementary school level education activity about Artificial Intelligence with an emphasis on application and social impacts. The board itself is a critical part of the activity, as the board modeled a neural network that the students were able to build themselves. The students would then modify and tweak the network by validating it with plastic toy animals placed in front of a camera and running a real time object detection model on the camera feed. We used the Coral Development Board, Google's new Linux based single-board computer, for its on board processing unit capable of running machine learning models. The interactive elements included RFID and I2C technology, as well as Neopixels and physical design elements.

I was the lead hardware designer of this project, and my role involved the design and fabrication of both the presentation and functionality of the board. This included research and selection of electronic hardware components, integration of electronic hardware, Arduino and Python programming, digital design and fabrication including laser cutting and soldering.

In the summer of 2018, I interned at EATLAB, a food industry data analysis start-up in Thailand. I worked on back end web development for their internal API using JavaScript, Node.js, and MongoDB. My main responsibilities involved implementing error checking and handling web requests between APIs and writing an API that connected their databases to their algorithms. I also built the first version of a working test bench for the backend APIs using Mocha and Chai, which greatly improved the testing process for when more APIs were added.Logo from eatlab.tech

This was for a second year Engineering Design course in which each team of three students was instructed to design and build an autonomous robot capable of dispensing mini traffic cones along a course. Our robot was able to follow a line representing the road and detect pieces of black tape representing "holes" or "cracks" on the road using photoresistor circuits sensors. The cones were stacked in a diagonal tube to optimize placement stability and horizontally placed with a rack and pinion system controlled by a servo motor. Lastly, the cones were dropped with a two level gate system.As the electromechanical lead of the project, I was responsible for designing and building the frame, incorporating actuators, and mounting circuitry and microcontroller elements onto the robot. Some major design considerations include stability of cone deployment, accuracy in cone placement, and straight line drive. The modularity of the design is for easy access to various parts, as problem areas can be isolated for testing and debugging purposes. The fabrication involved machine shop work, hand tools, and lasercutting.

This was the final project of a third year Introduction to Robotics course. The purpose of this final project was to apply the different types of controls learned in class, particularly PID control and Bayesian Localization, and design a control system for a mail delivering robot. The robot was to autonomously traverse a given map that modeled the hallways of the Galbraith building using line following and be able to localize and stop at desired offices represented by squares of different colours for delivery. A sample map is shown to the left.The robot platform used to implement our design was the Turtlebot3 Waffle Pi by Robotics Inc. that runs on the Robot Operating System (ROS).

In a first year Civil Engineering course, we were instructed to design a bridge that would meet specific loading specifications out of Matboard and rubber cement. The completed bridge was 125cm long bridge and sustained 400N in both the train test and Baldwin loading. The design modeled the bending moment diagram, making the moment of area of the cross section proportional to the distribution of the loading. This minimizes the amount of material used for the frame, so that the remaining material can be used as reinforcement diaphragms.The design ultimately failed by buckling in the Baldwin loading at one non-reinforced location. By using all our materials over reinforcing the areas under highest stress, we neglected to make the overall strength of the bridge relatively uniform throughout. We obtained one of the highest scores in construction quality.

Spring Awakening is an original composition for piano quintet I wrote based off of a scene from the German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. It's a coming of age story that deals with the exciting, confusing, and sometimes poignant time we call adolescence. As we follow the characters on their path to self discovery, the piece also warns about the dangers of sheltering children too much for too long.As a senior in high school when I wrote the piece, I see Spring Awakening also as a mark of my own transition from adolescence to adulthood, coming to terms with my own identity, and facing the realities of growing up.

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