Computer science at the University of Maryland · Army Research Laboratory, summer 2026
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- Herald: an open-source personal agent that runs on your own machine. It reads mail, calendar, messages, location and health into one ledger, and anything another person would see waits for a tap on your phone.
- loop-s2: operator console for the URC Autonomous Navigation Mission, ROS 2 Jazzy, built for UMD Loop Challenge Week.
- Planet Falconia, a VR digital twin of a rover mission built with NIST, accepted at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Educator's Forum.
- SMCS Kart (gokart-dash): a drive-by-wire electric go-kart, pitched to replace the robotics curriculum at Poolesville High School and taught from as it was built. Teensy 4.1, ESP32 steer-by-wire over CAN, a React dashboard on a Raspberry Pi. 40 mph, 40 hp peak.
- GNSS spoofing detection, Army Research Laboratory: finding where GPS is being spoofed from the position reports ships and aircraft already broadcast.
- Sparrows: schedules, clubs and announcements for 30+ schools in Montgomery County, about 30,000 monthly users. Lead developer, 2023 to 2026.
- BenGPT: Llama 3.1 fine-tuned on five years of my own text messages. My best friend could not reliably tell it from me.
- emulsion: film grain generated from math in one WebGL2 shader. Try it.
- PartyPad: phone browsers as motion controllers for Dolphin.
- Earlier: an autonomous blimp, the lead programming on a rover for a simulated exoplanet, and a Next.js and Stripe platform for a nonprofit.
Languages Python · TypeScript · Java · SQL · Bash
ML & data TensorFlow · CUDA · OpenCV · llama.cpp · SQLite
Systems Linux · Docker · Caddy · Cloudflare · Tailscale · Vercel
Web React · React Native · Next.js · Flask · MongoDB
Hardware Teensy · ESP32 · Raspberry Pi · CAN · LiDAR