Projects

I love a good project, developing an idea, designing it, doing the engineering. Ever since high school when I decided I wanted to build a BASIC compiler I've been pursuing cool personal projects. I find it hard to resist a good challenge, which gets me into trouble sometimes when I'm supposed to be working on some boring homework problem.

Current Projects

• Micron: My official PhD work is a handheld microsurgical tool helping surgeons perform really delicate operations, specifically eye surgery. I work on the computer vision side of things (tracking, locating features, etc) and the control algorithms.
• Face Recognition:: A topic I became interested as a graduate student at CMU, especially the practical applications of using face recognition in real-world situations, such as on Facebook.

Previous Projects

• Compiler Tutorial: An unfinished tutorial-style book on how to create a BASIC to x86 Intel assembly compiler using C++ that I wrote in high school/beginning of college.
• Calculon: I am involved on the robotics team @ UCF developing an autonomous vehicle for the international competition IGVC
• Gamblore: The latest autonomous ground robot built in the Robotics Lab at UCF for the 2006-2007 IGVC competition. In addition to being team captain, I work on sensor integration, path planning, software engineering, and advise the computer vision systems.
• Object Recognition using ART Neural Networks: A class project to identify objects (obstacles, lines, etc) realtime in an image using trainable ART neural networks.
• Discover Vision: My research into machine vision systems for the Robotics Lab @ UCF has lead to the development of a rapid prototyping machine vision tool with a scripting language.
• Undergraduate Thesis: At UCF, I wrote my thesis Spring 2007. It was entitled Automatically Determining Consequences of Unexpected Events.
• CashTrek: A budgeting tool I am developing for my father for his financial counseling ministry.
• C++ Plugins Architecture: For DiscoverVision, I have implemented a plugins architecture for C++ that enables the development of independent algorithms in C++ that can be added to DiscoverVision through a DLL.

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