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Clemson, SC, US

Clemson University, South Carolina, United States

- Industry partnership with NVIDIA as part of Clemson University's CPSC 4910 Senior Capstone Program- Enhancing an LLM with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Parameter-Efficient Fine Tuning (PEFT) to develop a virtual teaching assistant for supporting college students

Clemson University, South Carolina, United States

- Administering the TA training course with 28 students- Training professors and Head TAs to effectively utilize autograding technology- Creating a powerful and versatile Python autograding framework to be adopted across multiple classes- Assisting in the TA application process and interviewing

Clemson University, South Carolina, United States

Head Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for an introductory level C++ and C course- Led a team of 9 undergraduate teaching assistants- Designed and maintained 4 autograders to provide real-time feedback to 120 students- Distributed and reviewed the grading of 32 assignments - Developed the sample code for four 2-week course projects - Held office hours and.

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

- Won the 2024 VIPR-GS Best Poster Award for our off-road autonomy focus area- Implementing novel point cloud registration techniques for real-time offroad autonomous navigation- Exploring stereo and RGB-D imaging for 3D mapping and SLAM - Giving weekly progress updates as a slideshow presentation- Presenting to GVSC team members

Clemson University, South Carolina, United States

- Leading the software development effort for our custom PCB flight computers- Developing embedded C++ software- Building a HIL system for remote development

Clemson University, South Carolina, United States

- Developed full flight software for our Raspberry Pi student flight computer- Implemented data collection, state estimation, and radio transmission software- Wrote interfaces with an altimeter, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, radio and GPS- The flight computer flew on a rocket to over 10,000 feet and successfully collected over 2GB of usable.

Clemson University, South Carolina, United States

Integrative Cyberinfrastructure for Online Abuse Research (ICOAR) project- Full-stack Python web development- Utilizing APIs from 5 social media sites along with Kaggle and Hugging Face to automate data collection- Version control with Git and GitHub- Working within a team of 8- Giving weekly progress updates

Clemson University, South Carolina, United States

Unsupervised Video Denoising via Spatiotemporal Weighted Kernel- Trained, benchmarked, and organized over 1092 models on the Palmetto Cluster via Python and Bash automation- Proved our model to train 5x faster while maintaining comparable accuracy - Discovered key insights into object motion and framerate and their relationship with denoising

Bozeman, Montana, United States

- Automated LiDAR calibration reliability tests with Python- Solved 5 critical initialization issues on state-of-the-art scanners- Redesigned the polygon’s kickstart sequence for a 100% error reduction- Integrated key tests into a Buildkite pipeline- Developed robust CLIs for semi-automated LiDAR calibration interaction for our hardware team

EUREKA! is a research-focused summer program at Clemson that culminates in a poster forum. I served as one of two online counselors.- Planned and co-led 43 unique activities- Developed and presented the cyberbullying detection infrastructure project with my research mentor

Clemson University, South Carolina, United States

Teaching Assistant for CPSC 1070 - Programming Methodology. - Held office hours and attended labs twice a week - Graded weekly assignments in a timely manner