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Edmonton, Ab, Ca

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Project (ARVP) is club at the University of Alberta that currently develops autonomous underwater vehicles which compete in the annual international RoboSub competition.Working as software co-lead to manage a team of university software developers and a repository for all of our code. Other responsibilities include developing simulators, improving control systems, developing artificial intelligence models, and creating CI/CD pipelines which save hours of review time.

San Francisco Bay Area

San Mateo, California, United States

Summer intern on the video team, May - August 2023.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Designed a fast GPU prefix sum algorithm that runs on OpenGL, Vulkan, and WebGPU for use in order-independent transparency and other applications.• Worked on the Asymptote vector graphics language, porting OpenGL code to Vulkan and implementing a web renderer using the new WebGPU API.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Developed a web based GUI with Typescript and Svelte to play the game of Hex. Includes interactive data visualization UI to view the AI's Monte Carlo Tree.• Integrated client-server code with safety and error checking to play Hex online with multiplayer in real time.• Developed high performance C++ engine and Rust engine in WASM to simulate the game of Hex.• Implemented CI/CD pipeline for automatic building, and deployment.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Built Monte Carlo and Deep Learning AI agents that play the game of Othello using Python and Keras. Implemented interactive GUI and testing framework for the player and agents.• Developed Geodesic Y engine in C++ that could dynamically generate and play various board types.• Implemented C++ Geodesic Y engine in DeepMind OpenSpiel Framework.