Work
Competitions, internship work, and side projects — turning messy data into working systems.
Pi515 · Iowa · 2026
Built AI agents and multi-modal systems for Pi515's Day of Innovation, focused on applying practical AI to real problems affecting Iowa communities. Reached the finalist round.
Full-stack private prediction league app for the FIFA World Cup 2026. Friends create leagues, predict exact scorelines, and compete on a live leaderboard. Predictions lock the moment a match goes live.
HuggingFace Hackathon · 2026
AI-driven murder mystery game where a single ~27B model authors the entire case — plot, suspects, clues, and lies — then role-plays every character live as you interrogate them. Awarded the "best-agent" tag at the hackathon.
Karrera AI · 2025–2026
Production ML pipeline for Karrera's professional capability database. MinHash + HDBSCAN clustering reduced redundancy by 70% across 260K+ entries. Neural classifiers trained across 312 categories with ChromaDB vector search.
Kaggle Competition · 2024–Present
Three-time competitor in Kaggle's NCAA tournament prediction challenge. Built BigQuery feature tables from 30+ sources, ensembled 5 models, implemented Monte Carlo simulation. Top 37% in 2024 (302/820 teams). Top 13% in 2026 — Brier score 0.1287, placing 451st out of 3,462 teams.
Analyzed 10 seasons of scheduling data to quantify travel and back-to-back game impact. Built animated US travel maps and home-away streak heatmaps. Key finding: MIA gained 3.8 wins, POR lost 3.3 wins due to scheduling (2019–2024).
Noon App · 2023
Co-developed UP, a decentralized professional identity platform. Designed and built Knowledge and Social Graphs to power an AI assistant that understands users' skills, career trajectories, and professional networks.