Hi! I am a senior undergraduate studying electrical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My research focuses on the applications of signal processing and machine learning in earth science. I am especially interested in acoustics and remote sensing.

Beehive Audio ML Classification

Group Project

At my university I am the leader of WaggleNet, a student-run research group focused on using sensors and analytics to monitor the health of beehives. Within the group, I lead the bioacoustics research project. Over the past two years, I have had the opportunity to deploy a recording device I created at the university's bee lab. Between the fall of 2024 and spring of 2025, I was able to record 15 days worth of data from two hives. Using data from the fall, I trained a classification model to distinguish between disturbed and undisturbed hives. I used an FFT to extract features from audio clips, and experimented with different deep net architectures. Using logistic regression, I was able to achieve 90% validation accuracy on our dataset. Moving forward, I plan to explore more sophisticated methods for feature extraction and will be working with Prof. Gene Robinson of the university's entomology department on exploratory data analysis.

FPGA Deep Net Implementation

Independent School Project, 2024

During the Fall 2024 semester, I took a class on FPGA design at my university. For the final project, I implemented the forward pass of an MLP deep net in hardware with SystemVerilog. I trained a model on the MNIST digit detection dataset using PyTorch, and loaded the weights onto the hardware. Using a serial connection, the FPGA was able to receive and classify input images in live time. The model performed with 97% validation accuracy.

Tetrix

Group Project

An online co-op version of tetris where every time a new player joins, the playing board gets wider. I worked on the database end of the project, learning to use Firebase and OAuth. The project involved coding with mainly HTML and JavaScript.

Tube TV Oscilloscope

Personal Project

Driving the deflection coils of a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) with an audio amplifier to use as a rudimentary oscilloscope in X-Y mode. This was my first experience with high voltage electronics.