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Developing an Augmented Reality (AR) Storytelling Project with a team of 3 students under the mentorship of Dr. Rawan Alghofaili, focused on enhancing users’ presentation experience based on skeletal, textual, and speech inputs. • Applied Vector Quantized-Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE) neural network to train and generate skeletal motion tokens to fine-tune the model’s encoder/decoder architecture using skeletal data captured using Azure Kinect and Femtobolt. • Utilized C# and Python to set up Virtual Reality (VR) Environment in Unity.

• Collaborated with a team of 30+ officers to organize the second-largest 24 hour hackathon in the U.S., which attracts 2500+ registrations, 1000+ hackers, and 200+ project submissions. • Designed logo, Instagram feed, stickers, and other promotional assets for the 11th iteration of HackUTD using Procreate, Figma, and Adobe Fresco.

• Managed and coordinated meetings for a team of 5 mentees and 2 industry professionals.• Led group discussions to foster mentor-mentee relationships and gained insight into maintaining a professional lifestyle.• Maintained consistent communication with program leaders, providing timely updates on team progress and status.

• Developed chatbot to inform users about data breaches and another project which used a key to encrypt and decrypt messages. • Researched and created a program that would display a scatterplot comparing women's wellness and accessibility to resources in Nepal in comparison to Colombia using Python data processing libraries.

Handled incoming calls to campus and outgoing calls, responded to inquiries. Proctored and graded practice tests. Assisted students in signing up for tests, workshops, and classes.

One-on-one tutoring of middle and high school students in Algebra I and Algebra II, Tutored students via the Math Honors tutoring program for high school students.

• Developed a education advocacy website, personal portfolio, and Buzzfeed style personality quiz using JavaScript, CSS, and HTML• Presented projects to a panel of 60 members and Ford Employees and engaged in Ford Motor Company partner events