I graduated from Duke University in May 2016 with a double major in ECE and computer science and a minor in economics.
- Programming
- For our course on databases, my friends and I wrote a relational algebra interpreter (demo, code).
- For my course on computational geometry, I studied RRT-ANNs, a word I made up to refer to RRTs (rapidly-exploring random trees) that use an approximate nearest-neighbor subroutine in place of an exact nearest-neighbor one. I visualized their behavior and wrote some (probably wrong) proofs.
- For my course on robotics, my friends and I wrote a robotic arm controller for the Amazon Picking Challenge. You can see a video of it in action, as well as the code.
- For the same course on robotics, I wrote a controller for a simulated robot arm (video, code, writeup).
- For our course on compilers, my friends and I wrote a lot of SML code as we worked through Andrew Appel’s book.
- Cell biology
- I worked with Dr. Sharyn Endow to study motor proteins in Drosophila.
- We published “The kinesin-13 KLP10A motor regulates oocyte spindle length and affects EB1 binding without altering microtubule growth rates” in Biology Open.
- I gave an informal talk about some classical genetic work that I did in fruit flies.
- Misc
- I noticed that some powerlifting state records were weirdly low and was able to set new ones in the USAPL GA Teen (18-19), 123 lb weight class. My lifts were 259 lb squat, 159.8 lb bench press, and 270.1 lb deadlift.