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Welcome. I’m a developer with expertise in machine learning, quantitative finance and web design, answering real-world questions through computation, optimization and visualization. I have a bachelor’s in applied mathematics and a data science certificate.

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  • July 23, 2026

    Deep Learning for Clothing Classification

    To practice convolutional neural network (CNN) design, I wanted to work on a classification problem that was more challenging than toy datasets but still lightweight enough to train quickly on my local machine. The following details the design of a 3-block CNN architecture and the lessons I learned from training it on clothing image data. Dataset Characteristics Clothing classification with…

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  • July 1, 2026

    Java Elevator Simulator

    This is an interactive elevator simulator written in Java with Swing graphics. Users can click the ▲ (up) and ▼ (down) buttons on each floor to spawn riders and call the elevator. When a rider enters the elevator, the user selects their destination floor via a pop-up panel. The program uses a scheduling algorithm called LOOK to fulfill passenger requests…

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  • April 21, 2026

    OCR Image Search

    This Flask app scans a folder of images and makes the text inside them fully searchable, using open-source Tesseract OCR. This could be helpful for someone who has a massive folder of screenshots or scanned documents and wants to find what they need without uploading everything to a cloud service. This app runs 100% locally on your own machine. Instead…

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