This repository contains presentations of projects I've undertaken over the years!
- Applications of Ant Colony Optimization A Fall 2022 final project for honors algorithms (CS 311H) at UMass Amherst. See this repository for code and more!
- Bayesian Optimization For Birdflow Hyperparameter Tuning The culmination of work during a Spring 2023 independent study with Professor Daniel Sheldon; a presentation detailing the results of using bayesian optimization to select hyperparameters for BirdFlow, a framework for generating probabilisitc models of bird migratory behavior. To learn more about the technical details of BirdFlow, see this paper! To try out BirdFlow for yourself, see the BirdFlowR package.
- Mixture of Products Work done during Summer / Fall 2023 on experimenting with a mixture of products model structure for birdflow, which enables modelling of long-range dependencies in bird migration paths, including site fidelity - birds' tendency to return to the same breeding locations every year.
- Virtual Reality Pose Estimation for the Fetch Robot: the product of my Summer '21 work at UMass Lowell's Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Lab and NERVE Center; a virtual reality interface for manually estimating and setting the pose of the Fetch robot
- Operating Boston Dynamics' Spot In Virtual Reality: a virtual reality interface for performing manipulation and navigation tasks with Boston Dynamics' Spot robot; the product of my Summer '22 work at UMass Lowell's HRI Lab
- SeasonWatch: Presentations given during a Summer 2024 Fellowship with Public Interest Tech-New England. Worked with SeasonWatch, a nonprofit based in India which collects crowdsourced observations of trees, to analyze tree flowering and fruiting phenophases. We presented weekly to our collaborators at SeasonWatch, at the PIT-NE midpoint and community showcase presentations, and at an invited talk to SeasonWatch and citizen scientists. A sample weekly presentation, and the final showcase presentation, are attached here.
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Honors Thesis Proposal Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 senior honors thesis on extending the BirdFlow loss function to use a more expressive distance metric between model / ground truth marginals: the 2-Wasserstein Squared distance
$W_2^2$