President and Founder, Groton Hax (Hackathon) Club (formerly Groton AI Club)
Although I love Groton, at times I have wished there were more opportunities for STEM extracurriculars. In Junior year, I decided someone would have to create them and co-founded Groton Hax, a fun coding community geared towards teaching people applicable skills for building real projects and competing at Hackathons. As a data scientist, I thrive off the raw excitement and atmosphere of possibility that pervades rapid-fire hackathon projects. Getting to share what I know at meetings, managing projects to redesign the school’s infrastructure (like rebuilding our Global Education website), and leading teams has fostered my own growth as a coder, and been incredibly fun.
Bay Area Hacks for ML, Fintech and Societal Change, July 2020
Placed 5th out of 414 Participants (including working professionals) and won a $350 subscription.
Actalytics is a platform to help social activist groups or individuals to optimize their political outreach and manage effective campaigns. Our algorithm ranks House and Senate representatives most likely to vote for specific legislation based on past voting record, time in office, and their district’s political views, curating recommendations for who should be targeted. My contribution was web scraping to find the data and creating a logistic regression machine learning model that provided the recommendations. I also helped integrate the model into the Flask backend. This Hackathon inspired me to incorporate my first startup company, Activalytics LLC.
Actalytics is a platform to help social activist groups or individuals to optimize their political outreach and manage effective campaigns. Our algorithm ranks House and Senate representatives most likely to vote for specific legislation based on past voting record, time in office, and their district’s political views, curating recommendations for who should be targeted. My contribution was web scraping to find the data and creating a logistic regression machine learning model that provided the recommendations. I also helped integrate the model into the Flask backend. This Hackathon inspired me to incorporate my first startup company, Activalytics LLC.
New England High Schools Hackathon (HackNEHS), October 2019
Placed 2nd out of 20 teams; won Amazon Echo Dot. The hackathon was sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
The Green New Meal calculates the carbon “foodprint” of various recipes, and recommends the most sustainable meals for climate-conscious consumers. It then helps shoppers buy groceries for these recipes based on what ingredients they have at home.
I worked on implementing a K-Nearest-Neighbors algorithm to find the best-fitting recipe given a list of ingredients as well as the web-interface.
The Green New Meal calculates the carbon “foodprint” of various recipes, and recommends the most sustainable meals for climate-conscious consumers. It then helps shoppers buy groceries for these recipes based on what ingredients they have at home.
I worked on implementing a K-Nearest-Neighbors algorithm to find the best-fitting recipe given a list of ingredients as well as the web-interface.
Middlesex School Virtual Hackathon, April 2020
Best Solution to a World Problem, Amazon Gift Card
This was the first hackathon for our less experienced Groton Hax members; I was juggling our project with guiding Groton’s other junior team. Our project, “The Good News Hub” scraped the internet for positive news articles to raise COVID spirits and compiled them on a website. I was responsible for querying news and hosting a Python API using the Bottle framework that the front end used.
This was the first hackathon for our less experienced Groton Hax members; I was juggling our project with guiding Groton’s other junior team. Our project, “The Good News Hub” scraped the internet for positive news articles to raise COVID spirits and compiled them on a website. I was responsible for querying news and hosting a Python API using the Bottle framework that the front end used.
Berkshire Hathaway Hackathon “Designing Circular Navigation tools for the Vast Cyberspace”, June 2018
2nd Place, $1000 cash.
Built a graph-based navigation tool for traversing menus. Usable across all platforms, including car screens, websites, mobile phones, and VR games.
I worked on the front-end website and the architecture design.
Built a graph-based navigation tool for traversing menus. Usable across all platforms, including car screens, websites, mobile phones, and VR games.
I worked on the front-end website and the architecture design.
MIT Blueprint, February 9
We built a new interface for accessing emails based on social media like Instagram. Users could scroll through and perform basic actions like replying in a far more aesthetically pleasing and interactive way.