Projects
Can creativity be crowdsourced? Can someone come up with a startup idea using the experience of many distributed workers from all around the world? I worked on this project with Roberto Goizueta for the final project of CS376: Research Topics in Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford.
Chativy
Helping students get into their dream college by providing a more efficient alternative to private college consulting.
Working on advanced tools to enhance the swimming experience in coordination with SAP, the business management solutions firm.
A Kinect based tool for practicing public speech. This is the final project for CS247: Human-Computer Interaction. I worked on this with Maurizio Calo Caligaris, Roberto Goizueta and Calvin Fernandez.
Built a “Bond Booth” for a user to experience how it is like to be to become James Bond for the Human-Computer Interaction Studio class at Stanford, using the KinectJS framework, Javascript, HTML5 and CSS. I worked on this project with Calvin Fernandez, Maurizio Caligaris and Roberto Giuzeta. Github code here
Look at Me When I am Talking to You
An iPhone mount that tracks someone’s voice, as a part of the Analog Circuits class at Stanford. Tools used in the process include Arduino, multimeter, oscilloscope, digital signal analyzer, Solidworks, lazer cutter, and drill press. I worked on this project with Tushar Gupta.
Joint Entity-Event Coreference via Spectral Coclustering
As a part of the Natural Language Processing class at Stanford, the goal of this project was to find relationships between different clusters of words. Git repository is available here.
Club Pinokyo in Bodrum, Turkey
I am responsible for the webpage, online reservations and digital payments of this hotel in Turkey.
An iPhone dating app that matches you with someone you like in your friend network once every week. Its still in alpha phase. I built this app with Alex Konigsberg, Jack Reidy and Bryce Kam as a part of CS194: Senior Project at Stanford. Our app won Twitter‘s award for best application/project and Garage Technology Venture’s award for second best application.
A machine learning project with a goal of predicting what news someone would be interested in reading based on which news articles the user has already read. We used Pulse‘s user data for this project. I worked on this project with Gil Shotan and Rory MacQueen.
Michele Botmann is a robot, built for the final project of ME210: Mechatronics at Stanford. I worked on the electronics components and software of the robot. Team Michele Botmann was the outstanding winner of the competition among 66 students and 16 teams. I worked on this project with Evan Luxon, Scott Cauble, and Annie Scalmanini.
A circuit that measures how much energy one’s biceps exert when lifting an object. This was the final project for EE122B: Introduction to Biomedical Electronics. I worked on this project with Gil Shotan. Here is a funny video of an early prototype: video
Melody Dragon: A Smart Music Application
Melody Dragon is an online tool that generates melodies based on an artificial intelligence (Q-learning) algorithm, improving the quality of its music based on user feedback. I worked on this project with Matt Rubin and Brian O’Connor.
A web application that allows iPhone users to easily take pictures of an item with their phone and list it on a list of classifieds. I worked on this project with Matt Rubin and Sakhsi Agarwal.