I'm a product focused Software Engineer specializing in early-stage, open-ended problems.
Austin, Texas
Informal is a new kind of form-based visual programming language for web applications and data science. It combines the ease of spreadsheets with the power of a modern language, in an interactive, browser-based development environment.
You improve what you measure. Thyself is a digital journal to track and analyze your daily habits. It was also my first serious web-design project, where I experimented with a lot of frameworks and tools. Check out the story of how I built this.
What if a music player could learn your taste in music and not just recommend similar songs, but compose original songs just for you? Infinite Music Machine (and Poetry Machine) uses Markov chains to learn the sequential structure of songs and poetry and generates new sequences following the same rules.
InSight is an Android image processing application to isolate a whiteboard region from a complex scene and correct its perspective to improve readability. It was a Senior Design Project I built with Beichen Guo, Chuan Xu, Timothy Chan and Victor Vo under the mentorship of J.K. Aggarwal.
A Minority-Report style computer interface that allows you to control your computer pointer using hand gestures. Two flex-sensors on the thumb and index finger controls clicks and an accelerometer guides the mouse around the screen based on your hand's tilt. Embedded System Design (EE445) final Project with Victor Vo.
Epic Fail is the quirky, stubborn robot who has no plans what-so-ever to take over the world. Failey has an infrared-sensor to detect and follow lines on the course and uses a range finder to (try to) avoid walls. UT Robotics & Automation Society (RAS), Robotathon 2009 team with Juno Jin, Na Chen and Victor Vo under the mentorship of Mohit Taneja.
Clean, readable, SEO optimized versions of quarterly reports from public companies. Quarterly fetches recent filings and converts the PDF reports into HTML, which is then processed to make the design consistent and semantically meaningful for SEO. About as beautiful as financial reports get!
Meet Ron, an AI conversational agent who can be taught facts through conversation and occasionally even answer questions about it. The simple, "neural-network" style algorithm behind it is general purpose and can work with any language, but scales poorly with data size.
Pulsar was my first large-scale project and what really made me fall in love with programming. We started knowing only the basics of Java and programmed a simple, fun game with beautiful parallax backgrounds, A.I.'s that chase you around and JET-PACKS! Built with Marv Marasigan and Victor Vo as the final project for our High School Computer Science II course.