projects
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glyph
an ipad handwriting notebook with a built-in ai tutor, with 1,000+ waitlist signups before launch. i own the knowledge graph and rendering: a polar-constrained force-directed layout solver for an adaptive knowledge graph of 804 topics and 1,506 edges across 22 subjects, and a batched canvas renderer with three-tier level of detail and an actor-based geometry cache.
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mean eats
campus dining app shipped to the app store and used by 300+ unt students across 5 dining halls, with live menus, meal-plan tracking, and nutrition data. five scrapers run serverless on aws lambda and eventbridge with 180+ days of uptime, and an offline cache with on-device recommendations cuts redundant api calls by 60%+.
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ratelimiter
distributed rate limiting service with redis-backed shared state: 10,381 req/s at 5.14 ms median latency (57 ms p99) with zero errors across 20,000 requests from 100 concurrent workers.
reimplemented as a c++ library covering six algorithms (token bucket, atomic token bucket, gcra leaky bucket, sliding window log, sliding window counter, fixed window), benchmarked against the python service on the same workload.
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cabt neural handwriting decoder
transformer decoder for intracortical handwriting bci, with temporal patch embedding, rotary position encoding, geglu feed-forward blocks, and causal masking. full training and evaluation pipeline on the willett et al. 2021 benchmark; evaluation against published gru baselines is in progress.
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eegtrust seizure detection
dual-head spatiotemporal graph neural network for real-time pediatric seizure detection, scoring above 0.90 f1 on the tuh and chb-mit benchmarks. a neurosymbolic explainability layer surfaces human-readable firing-pattern rules, built with clinical deployment in mind. open-source with pretrained weights.
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caring tutors connect
nonprofit delivering 1:1 tutoring for hospitalized and underserved students. built the automated tutor–student matching system and scaled it across multiple school districts.
awards
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international logic olympiad
finalist, 4th place internationally (top ~0.1%)
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y combinator startup school
top 1% of participants; invited to dinner with yc partners
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unt integration bee
1st place, competing as a tams high school student against undergraduate and graduate students
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international biology battle
gold medal, 8th place globally
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bpa investors challenge
22nd nationally; ~25% return on a $100,000 simulated portfolio over one month
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hacktams
winner
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deca
state champion + icdc scholarship
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julian c. stanley scholarship
awarded for advanced mathematical aptitude and research acumen
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undergraduate research fund award
$500 for protein language model research in the azad lab