Projects
Work across digital design, embedded hardware, research instrumentation, quantitative modeling, and software—ranging from recent engineering projects to the programs that first got me building things.
Python · React · WebSockets · Modal
A self-improving chess-engine system built by a five-person team at the 2026 Point72 Cubist Systematic Strategies Hackathon, where it placed second. Each generation proposes improvements, builds candidate engines in parallel, rejects invalid variants, and runs a round-robin tournament to select the next champion. A live dashboard streams games, brackets, and Elo updates.
SystemVerilog · RV32IM · AXI4-Lite · Lattice ECP5
A pipelined RV32IM processor with integer, branch, load/store, multiply, and divide support. The design includes forwarding, hazard stalls, branch flushing, an eight-stage pipelined divider, and AXI4-Lite memory interfaces. Verified using cocotb, Verilator, RISC-V ISA tests, and waveform debugging before synthesis and deployment to a Lattice ECP5 FPGA.
PCB design · Python · PyVISA · Markov chains
A precision experimental platform for studying thermotaxis in silicon microrobots. The system combines temperature control, custom PCB interfaces, a Raspberry Pi, a Keithley SourceMeter, and a PicoScope. Python automation enabled more than 300 hours of reproducible trials, while Markov-chain and Monte Carlo models matched observed trajectories with over 80% agreement.
Altium · CAN · SPI · I²C · Embedded systems
A four-layer high-speed telemetry and dashboard PCB for Penn Electric Racing. The board integrates vehicle data acquisition across CAN, SPI, and I²C and was taken through schematic capture, layout, DFM review, simulation, firmware bring-up, and validation. Related work includes the BSPD, charger electronics, LTE integration, and board-level power systems.
Data acquisition · Biosensing · Python
Portable data-acquisition electronics and analysis software for graphene field-effect-transistor biosensors in the Charlie Johnson Group. The platform was designed to make sensor experiments easier to run and analyze outside a conventional bench setup.
Python · SQL · Pandas · Weibull modeling
An automated reliability-analysis system built around live hardware test data. The pipeline consolidates tests by serial number, handles retests and censored observations, fits Weibull failure models, and evaluates whether environmental-screening durations can be shortened while preserving failure-detection coverage.
mmWave · Edge hardware · APIs · Cloud
The first end-to-end hardware MVP for an elder-care startup. The system joined mmWave sensors and embedded edge hardware with a backend API, cloud pipeline, and client application for continuous real-time occupancy monitoring.
Analog circuits · Oscillators · Signal processing
An analog detector built around matched fixed and sensing oscillators near 50 kHz. Mixing their outputs translates small, inductance-driven frequency changes into a low-frequency signal that can be measured directly; testing showed a clear output shift in the presence of metal.
C++ · Raspberry Pi · PID control · MPU-6050
A two-wheeled balancing robot using a Raspberry Pi Zero W, inertial sensing, and dual motor control. The C++ control stack performs sensor calibration, real-time angle estimation, and tunable PID control to stabilize the platform and recover from disturbances.
C++ · SDL2 · Backtracking
A GUI-based solver that uses recursive backtracking and visualizes the search process on arbitrary Sudoku puzzles.
Repository ↗C++ · Game search · UCI
A C++ chess engine implementing the Universal Chess Interface for play and analysis through compatible chess clients.
Repository ↗Node.js · Express · Socket.IO · MongoDB
A real-time, multi-room chat application with accounts, persistent messages, room management, and online presence over WebSockets.
Repository ↗C++ · CLI
A complete two-player chess game playable from the terminal, including board state, move entry, and rule enforcement.
Repository ↗C++ · Game development
A C++ recreation of the classic arcade game, built to explore real-time input, motion, collision handling, and game-state management.
Repository ↗C++ · CLI
A compact console implementation of two-player Tic-Tac-Toe.
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