Projects

A selection of things I have built -- from AI research tools to full-stack platforms. Each project taught me something new about engineering at the intersection of software and finance.

GitHub Activity

558 contributions in the last year

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Brama AI

November 2024 – Present

AI-powered investment platform that delivers institutional-grade financial insights to every investor.

PythonLangGraphRAGReactMongoDBAWS

GitHub Live Demo

GUARD-AI

October 2025 – November 2025

A model-agnostic framework for governance and runtime defense of AI agents.

PythonLLM/VLMsSecurityPyTorch

Paper

Coffee Chats

October 2025 – November 2025

AI-powered networking app that matches students and professionals with the right alumni and mentors.

ReactNode.jsAWSAI/ML

GitHub Live Demo

Real-time Earnings Calls Pipeline

March 2025 – June 2025

End-to-end pipeline that transcribes earnings calls, extracts sentiment, and executes trades based on hard and soft drivers.

PythonPyTorchNLPASRWhisperLLM

GitHub

WhisperChain+

April 2025 – May 2025

End-to-end encrypted messaging platform with role-based access control and multi-factor authentication.

React.jsNode.jsCryptographyWebSockets

GitHub Live Demo

More Projects

Do Outliers Matter?

2025

Research analyzing the impact of in-distribution outliers on video classification model performance.

PythonPyTorchDeep LearningComputer Vision

Perfect Strike

June 2024

Custom-designed and 3D-printed golf training aid to help golfers at all levels improve putting.

Fusion 3603D PrintingProduct Design

Moves AI App

May 2024 – June 2024

Social app that helps friend groups plan their perfect night out using AI-powered itinerary generation.

ReactNode.jsLlama 3Full Stack

MongoDB Collaborative Notes

May 2024

Golf-themed social media app with custom authentication and full CRUD functionality.

MongoDBReactNode.jsAuth

Firebase Collaborative Notes

April 2024

Real-time collaborative notes app with Firebase backend and live syncing.

FirebaseReactJavaScript

YouTube Clone

April 2024

React-based YouTube clone powered by the Google YouTube API.

ReactYouTube APIJavaScript

Video Action Classifier

March 2024

Won both ML competition tracks: 100% binary accuracy and 96.6% multi-class accuracy, outperforming 200 students.

PythonPyTorchSVMComputer Vision

k-NN / Naive Bayes / SVM Digit Classifiers

March 2024

Implemented and compared classical ML classifiers achieving up to 94.7% accuracy on digit recognition.

PythonNumPyML

Logistic Regression & Perceptron Classifiers

February 2024

Built logistic regression and perceptron models from scratch using cross-entropy loss and smooth ReLU.

PythonNumPyML

Regression with Gradient Descent

January 2024

Linear and non-linear regression models with gradient descent, ridge, and lasso regularization.

PythonNumPyOptimization

Neural Network Digit Classifier

November 2023

Built a neural network from scratch achieving 92.5% accuracy and winning the class-wide competition.

PythonNumPyDeep Learning

Poisson Image Blending

October 2023

Gradient-domain image processing for seamless image compositing using Poisson equation solvers.

PythonNumPyComputer Vision

Forensic License Plate Recognition

September 2023

Homography-based algorithm to remove perspective distortion and read license plates from surveillance images.

PythonNumPyComputer Vision

AI and Machine Learning — UChicago

June 2023 – August 2023

Developed a quantitative REIT trading strategy using ML, sentiment analysis, and time series analysis.

PythonMLSentiment AnalysisTime Series

Tiny Search Engine

February 2023 – March 2023

A complete search engine written in C with crawler, indexer, and querier modules.

CData StructuresSystems

Parts of Speech Predictor

September 2022 – November 2022

HMM-based part-of-speech tagger achieving over 93% accuracy using the Viterbi algorithm.

JavaHMMNLP

CO2 Race Car Project

March 2022

Won a CO2 car drag race by designing the most aerodynamic and lightest car using CFD and CAD.

Fusion 360CFD3D PrintingCNC

Texas Hold-Em App

2020

Four-player Texas Hold-Em poker app built in Swift for iOS.

SwiftXcodeiOS

1/16 GT2RS RC Car

Summer 2024

Custom-designed and 3D-printed 1/16 scale Porsche 911 GT2RS RC car with Arduino-controlled steering and drive.

ArduinoFusion 3603D PrintingElectronics