Projects

Greedy

Hack2Impact 2025

Greedy is a web-based learning platform designed for instructors and students. Instructors can create and manage courses or classes, while students can enroll and engage with course content. The platform focuses on streamlining class organization and enhancing student-teacher interaction.

3rd DAIN + Fetch AI Honorable Mention

Project Dave

LAHacks 2025

An AI agent that can search for anyone you need, automate networking, cold emails, outreach, and more! It integrates with social platforms, offers customizable outreach sequences, and provides analytics to optimize engagement.

Recovrly

DiamondHacks 2025

Recovrly is a hybrid recovery companion that combines a supportive social app with a cheerful, AI-timed medication robot named Clamshell. Designed for patients recovering from illness or surgery, the platform helps users track progress, connect with others on similar journeys, and receive friendly medication reminders. With milestone sharing, community feeds, and an integrated chatbot, Recovrly turns healing into a shared, uplifting experience—while Clamshell adds joy and consistency to daily routines, increasing adherence and reducing the isolation often felt during recovery.

AITA

VEST

AITA (Am I The A**hole) is an app that leverages AI to analyze and summarize posts from Reddit's AITA community. Using the Reddit API to fetch posts and the Gemini for natural language processing, the app provides concise summaries, key points, and sentiment analysis of AITA stories. Users can quickly understand complex interpersonal situations, swipe either left for "You're the asshole" (YTA) or right for "You're not the asshole" (NTA), and view community judgments without reading lengthy posts, making ethical discussions more accessible and engaging.

MeowMate

Creative Labs 2025

MeowMate is a swipe-based AI-driven cat adoption platform designed to connect cats with their perfect homes. Our dual account system serves both adopters and shelters, with automated profile generation for easy cat listing. The app's matching algorithm allows users to specify must-have criteria and preferences like breed, color, and age. Using advanced vector embeddings technology, we create personalized recommendations by ranking cats based on user preferences, making the adoption process more efficient and increasing successful placement rates for shelter cats.

Brain Cleaner

VEST 2025

Brain Cleaner transforms dense PDF documents into engaging, easily digestible "brainrot" style videos. Leveraging the Chunkr API and OpenAI API, our platform extracts key information from your PDFs, generates a compelling script, and seamlessly integrates it with visually stimulating background videos. Users can customize their experience, save generated videos for future reference, and share knowledge in a format designed for maximum engagement and retention.

fitchck

CS35L

fitchck is a digital wardrobe platform that helps users organize their clothing, generate stylish outfits, and share their fashion with the community. Many people struggle with organizing their wardrobe or deciding what to wear. That's where fitchck comes in! The app features an intuitive categorization system where users can upload and organize clothing by type, color, season, and occasion. Our AI-powered chatbot analyzes your wardrobe and suggests personalized outfit combinations based on your style preferences, current weather conditions, and planned activities. The social component allows users to share their favorite outfits on community feeds, gain inspiration from others, and receive feedback on their style choices.

RollCall

HOTH 2025

RollCall is a social accountability app that helps users stay committed to their schedules and responsibilities. The platform integrates with Google Calendar to fetch scheduled events and requires users to upload real-time images of themselves at events to mark attendance. Friends can validate these images through endorsements, creating a community of mutual accountability. The app tracks attendance streaks, encouraging consistency through gamification and social interaction, transforming productivity into a shared, engaging experience.

Hack A Food

Hacklytics 2025

Hack A Food is a platform that investigates what's really in our packaged food. When scanning a barcode, users receive detailed insights on ingredients, nutrients, additives, and environmental impacts of food production. The app provides comprehensive information through the Open Food Facts dataset of over 3.7 million food varieties. Using TF-IDF vectorization and cosine similarity algorithms, we recommend similar healthier alternatives based on product names, keywords, and nutritional attributes. Our goal is to empower users to make better, more sustainable food choices through accessible nutritional education.

Top 15 Finalist

Plant Portal

Hack for Humanity 2025

Plant Portal is a platform that bridges the digital and physical worlds of gardening. Users can build virtual gardens that mirror their real-life planting efforts, fostering environmental awareness and community-driven sustainability. The platform features AI-powered plant recognition that provides species details and environmental impact data, tracks carbon reduction by showing how each plant contributes to sustainability, and connects users with a community of like-minded individuals.

Best Use of Melissa API

Unity Nonprofits

IrvineHacks

Unity Nonprofits connects users with local charitable organizations based on their interests and location. Users simply input their zip code to discover nearby nonprofits that align with their values. We built our own API by ingesting and enhancing Melissa's nonprofit database, using Playwright with AgentQL for reliable data scraping. The platform processes this information through Perplexity to provide up-to-date details on relevant organizations. Our mission is to make community involvement accessible to everyone, inspired by a chance conversation about giving back to our communities.

LockedIn

SBHacks 2025

LockedIn is a productivity platform designed to combat digital distractions and procrastination. Users can upload their homework assignments, and our AI-powered system intelligently manages these tasks throughout the week, displaying them on an interactive calendar. Built with JavaScript, TypeScript, MongoDB, and Anthropic's Claude API, LockedIn helps users stay focused and organized with their academic responsibilities, reducing time spent doomscrolling and increasing productive work sessions.

MNIST Classification

ENGR1ML Final Project

This MNIST Classification project implements a convolutional neural network for recognizing handwritten digits. The model architecture incorporates convolutional layers to extract spatial features from the images, batch normalization to stabilize and accelerate training, and linear layers for final classification. This approach effectively leverages the strengths of CNNs to achieve high accuracy in digit recognition, demonstrating fundamental deep learning concepts and techniques for image classification tasks.

SVM Face Detection

Inspirit AI

This SVM Face Detection project implements a Support Vector Machine classifier for facial recognition in images. The system uses OpenCV for image processing and feature extraction, followed by SVM classification with Scikit-learn. The model is trained on the TinyFace dataset to identify and locate faces in various lighting conditions and orientations. This project demonstrates practical applications of machine learning for computer vision tasks, combining classical ML techniques with modern image processing libraries.

City Builder

Corpus Hacks 2023

My first hackathon where we built City Builder. Based off Clash of Clans, players can place different buildings to increase their wealth, happiness, and health. Different buildings have varying effects on these stats, such that a factory would increase wealth, but decrease happiness, health whereas a gym would decrease health but increase happiness and health