2026 AI for Improved Learning A paper serving both as an opinion piece and the summary of a course on how to learn in the age of AI 2025 Board Game AI Strategy For my UF IPPD senior design project, I built an AI to play the board game "Settlers of Catan". Also, as primary author and lead AI developer won Best Paper for Simulation at IITSEC 2025. Learning to Dispatch For my UF B.S. honors thesis, I created a reinforcement learning framework for train dispatching networks. GatorPy For my ECH4905 (Chemical Optimization) class, I built a linear programming solver from scratch in Python. 2024 Pokemon ML Project To help other students, I built a walkthrough of a machine learning project using NumPy, Pandas, SciKit-Learn, and Matplotlib. Midi Crusher For fun, I built a python package to compress MIDI files more easily, and won UF ISE 2024 best research poster. Music Genre Classifier For my ESI4610 (Data Analytics) class, I used machine learning to classify the genre of the song from the audio file. Plant Trait Classification For my ESI4611 (Machine Learning) class, we built a multimodal ML model and competed in the 2024 plant trait classification Kaggle competition. 2023 VBA ERP Module For my ESI4356 (DSS & VBA) class, I built an Excel VBA module for a steel manufacturing firm to automate ordering decisions. TRAFFIC For fun, I pitched an AI system to predict transportation traffic with two of my friends, and won 4th place at UF 2023 Gator Tank Finalist. 2022 Backing Track Generator My first ever programming project - A heuristic algorithm that randomly generates musical backing tracks for improvisation.
