Software & Research Projects
The Evolution of Trust & Safety Policies of Digital Platforms
About
This project involves collaborating with my research team to analyze trends in policy changes across various digital platforms over time. The goal is to gain insight into their content policies, help inform policy development, and enhance transparency online.
Python, HTML, Beautiful Soup
Undergraduate Research Assistant - BU Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences (CDS)
October 2023 - present
Technical Skills
Allison McDonald, PhD, Assistant Professor at BU CDS; Deepak Kumar, PhD, Assistant Professor at University of California San Diego Computer Science and Engineering
Advisors
Time-Series Forecasting of Water Quality Indices
About
This project involved collaborating with 3 undergraduate students to create an LSTM model to predict water quality indices, implement a pipeline to retrieve real-time data and run the forecasting model, develop a benchmark to evaluate performance, and create a chatbot to display results. The goal was to gain insight into forecasting water quality indices to address the environmental impact of AI and data center water consumption.
Advisors
Natalie Isak, ML Engineer II; Christine Yang, ML Software Engineer; Aarti Dwivedi, Applied Scientist II
Technical Skills
Microsoft Planetary Computer Satellite Data, Python, Sci-Kit Learn, HTML, CSS, Flask, OpenAI API
AI Studio Fellow - Microsoft
August 2024 - December 2024
GitHub
EduSync
About
EduSync is a full-stack web application that simplifies content organization across various learning management systems — from Blackboard to Gradescope to Piazza. Students can access their course materials, assignments, and schedules on a single platform, allowing for better organization and time management. Our team presented a prototype of EduSync in Spring 2024 at BU’s Demo Day, an Experiential Learning Expo.
Technical Skills
Typescript, React, Tailwind CSS, Firebase
Technical Lead - BU Spark! Innovation Fellowship and Launch Lab Program
January 2024 - December 2024
GitHub
Peer Feedback in Open-Source Software Communities
About
A Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) project focused on examining the influence of peer feedback on newcomer retention in GitHub, an open-source software community. The goal is to help improve collaboration within OSS communities.
Python, BERT Language Model
Advisor
Laura Dabbish, PhD, MS, Professor at CMU HCII and Director of Connected Experience Lab
REU Intern - Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute (CMU HCII)
May 2023 - August 2023