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

Technical Skills