Aug 2022 - May 2024
Cornell Tech
Dual MSc in Information Science with a concentration in Urban Tech
GPA: 4.0
Relevant Coursework (Highlights)
Design Across Disciplines
The course was taught by Jenny Sabin (or here)
Driven by the cellular automata model, this traveling exhibit creates an immersive visualization of water quality, leaving shore-stabilizing artifacts in its wake.
In this project, we used Rhino & Grasshopper to create fully parametric designs, both the top and bottom structures regenerate uniquely each time the script runs. It was a blend of design experimentation and technical execution at its core.
Article showcasing our work (link here)
Urban Data Final Project
The course was taught by Emma Pierson
Our final project was understanding or as we called it ‘quantifying gentrification’ in NYC. We compared 2011 and 2019 data from different census databases, we looked at different factors such as median rent, education level, age etc… per zipcode and then came up with a ‘gentrification formula’, we then mapped this over NYC and the result was this:
As you can see from 2011 to 2019, areas such as north-west Brooklyn (Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick) and FiDi, were the areas that gentrified the most, while areas such as Flushing or South and South-East Brooklyn were the ones that gentrified the least in that time period.
Developing and Designing Interactive Devices
This course is taught by Wendy Ju. This course covers the human-centered and technical workings behind interactive devices ranging from cell phones and video controllers to household appliances and smart cars. This is a hands-on, lab-based course.
This is my Github repo for the class with all the Projects we made.
One fun example of what I worked on with Stanley Walker is this International hotline 🌍 ☎️, an OpenAi phone that lets you call a random person in the world
- transcribe microphone audio w/ Whisper
- chatgtp api
- prompt configured to pick a random location and build an identify based on this place, continue to natural conversation
- gTTS (google text-to-speech) output
We've kept on working on it and integrated ElevenLabs and a proximity sensor (with responding lights) for better user experience. We also added a 3D printed housing.
For our final project we decided to make an interactive camera that could automatically translate what it was seeing, you could just say the language you wanted to know the element that you were looking to and then it would automatically translate it. We called it PolyPi (from polyglot- someone who can speak many languages and pi, because we were using a Raspberry Pi).
This was the housing:
And this is how it worked in action:
Here is a link to the repo
Product Studio
Here we worked on a project called Criate. We were set a challenge by Patreon to help content creators realize economic freedom from their art. We were finalists in the Open Studio of 2024, you can see a picture of me here in the Cornell Tech Instagram.
Courses Taken:
Fall 2022
INFO 6410 HCI & Design - (A)
INFO 5430 Urban Data - (A)
INFO 5410 Urban Systems - (A)
NBAY 5301 Intro to Entrepreneurial Finance - (A)
TECH 5310 Business Fundamentals - (B+)
DESIGN 6151 Design & Making Across Disciplines - (A+)
Spring 2023
CS 5356 Building Startup Systems - (A+)
CS 5304 Data Science in the Wild - (A)
INFO 5420 Urban Design Strategies - (A+)
INFO 5368 Practical Applications in Machine Learning - (A+)
INFO 5455 Smart Cities - (A)
Fall 2023
TECH 5900 - Product Studio (A+)
INFO 5920 - Specialization Project (A+)
NBAY 6090 - Digital Marketing (A)
INFO 5345 - Developing and Designing Interactive Devices (A)
NBAY 5670 - Management Writing (Pass/Fail course - Passed)
NBAY 6085 - Leadership Insights for Building Ventures (Pass/Fail course - Passed)
TECH 5999 - Independent Study (Pass/Fail course - Passed)
Spring 2024
CS 5670 - Introduction to Computer Vision (A)
NBAY 5710 - Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains ()
TECH 5130 - Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist ()
TECH 5910 - Startup Studio ()
NBAY 6145 - AI Strategy and Application ()
NBAY 6820 - Negotiation Essentials ()
NBA 5645 - Dilemmas in Founding New Ventures ()