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  • Student at Cornell University studying electrical and computer engineering.
  • Engineer, programmer, designer, hacker, and aspiring polymath.
  • Worked most recently at Barclays Capital.
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Using NMEAP on an 8-bit ATmega

I've been using the NMEAP library by David Howard for parsing GPS sentences for an ECE 4760 project with an ATmega 1280. It's a wonderful library, but it runs into problems decoding UTC timestamps on ...

National Geothermal Student Competition!

Several fellow CUSD students and I won a $10K award from the Department of Energy to research geothermal exploration technology as part of the National Geothermal Student Competition! We're traveling ...

CSS Twitter Buttons

Had to make this for a project I'm working on, and I figured the Internet should know. Twitter's official buttons rely on JavaScript, which takes a second to run and is not usable in all ...

Portfolio Projects
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HelioWatcher (spring 2012)

The HelioWatcher is a solar tracking & analytics platform, capable of orientating a solar panel towards the position of maximum efficiency and performing long-term data logging to analyze optimal ...

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Hacking the PopShop (spring 2012)

Jeremy Blum, Sam Sinensky and I turned a whiteboard into a tactile control panel for the lights and music in the PopShop, a new co-working/entrepreneurial space at Cornell University. This was our ...

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Debcite (summer 2010-present)

Debcite is a search engine that provides the full text of articles based on search queries in the form of citations. It's designed primarily for use by intercollegiate debate teams, which frequently ...

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Nerf Sentry Gun (spring 2009)

The nerf sentry gun was a final project for Cornell's CS1114 - Introduction to Computing with MATLAB & Robotics. Jeremy Blum and I used servo motors and a digital I/O device to rotate & fire a Nerf ...

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Implementing IR detection on the MSP430 (spring 2011)

Nebiyou Tulu and I implemented infrared capabilities on the MSP430 as part of a project for Cornell's ECE 3140 - Embedded Systems. The system acts as the basis for a potential laser tag system that ...

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imgdb (fall 2010)

imgdb is a simple, minimalist collaborative image gallery library. It uses PHP and MySQL to set up an image gallery that allows collaborative uploading, tagging of images, and easy browsing. This was ...

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