SELECTED WORK

Projects

A collection of the projects I've worked on — headlined by STL NMF, my AI and mathematics research, alongside supplementary work from coursework and personal interest. If nothing else, please check out STL NMF.

STL NMF
★ FEATURED RESEARCH

STL NMF

The culmination of my research in Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) applied to Spatial Transcriptomics data. Conducted at Case Western Reserve University under Dr. Weihong Guo, with the endless support of fellow researcher Jiasen Zhang.

Matrix FactorizationDeep LearningSpatial Transcriptomics
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8-Puzzle

8-Puzzle

AI Coursework

A 3×3 sliding-tile puzzle solved with two agents — A* search and local beam search — built for my Artificial Intelligence coursework at CWRU.

Iris Classification

Iris Classification

ML

Classifying the classic 150-sample iris dataset with two approaches — k-means clustering and a neural network — comparing their performance across experiments.

Email Classification ↗

Email Classification ↗

GitHub

A spam/not-spam classifier over ~7,000 emails with partially labeled data, built with Clay Preusch. Full writeup on GitHub.

Vessel Classification ↗

Vessel Classification ↗

GitHub

Classifying vessel tracks from AIS telemetry (position, speed, course) into k boats — another collaboration with Clay Preusch. Full writeup on GitHub.

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