2007

Einstein Papers Project

I worked with Dr. Tilman Sauer on the Einstein Papers Project database. We worked to find an estimate of the number of items present in the archives, since duplications and errors are frequent. Dr. Sauer presented our work in an invited talk "The Expanding Universe of the Einstein Archives Database" at a workshop "Editing Centenary Scientific Manuscripts" held at Université 2 in Nancy, France on September 23-24, 2007.

By the request of the Einstein Papers Project, the work will not be shown here.

2008

Radiation Detection

I worked in the Infospheres lab with Dr. K. Mani Chandy, grad students Annie Liu, Concetta Pilotto, and Matt Wu, and another undergraduate student. We worked with Dr. Ryan McLean on a radiation detection project to interdict dirty bombs. 

IPSN Paper (was not accepted, unfortunately)

SURF Paper

SURF Presentation

My SURF Fellowship was funded by the Arthur Rock Foundation.

This project was featured in a news article: here.

2009

Community Seismic Network

I worked on the Community Seismic Network, with Dr. Robert Clayton, Dr. K. Mani Chandy, Dr. Andreas Krause, grad student Michael Olson, and three other undergraduate students.

SURF Paper

SURF Presentation

My SURF Fellowship was funded by Dr. Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu.

This project was featured in some news articles: here and here.

Caltech Student Microgravity Initiative

I also worked with a group of other undergraduates to apply for the NASA Microgravity University, with faculty support from Dr. Morteza Gherib. If accepted, we will be able to perform a fluid dynamics experiment in microgravity.

Proposal

The website for that project is available here.

Update: Unfortunately, we did not get accepted. It was still a good learning opportunity, though.

2010

Community Seismic Network

I continued my work on the Community Seismic Network, culminating in presenting my Bachelor's thesis to the department. My work was published in the Caltech Undergraduate Research Journal. The project has continued since I left it and is now available as an Android app.

Student Life and Master's Award

I was one of the winners of the 2010 Student Life and Master's Award. This is "presented to undergraduates whose concern for their fellow students has been demonstrated by persistent efforts to improve the quality of undergraduate life and by effective communication with members of the faculty and administration."

Beauchamp Fellowship

I was awarded a fellowship to pursue my PhD at Johns Hopkins University, working with Professor Yair Amir.

2011

Remote Telesurgery

I worked on enabling surgeons to perform sugery via the da Vinci surgical system over long distances reliably. Project page.

Spiney Android

This project was to explore the possiblity of sharing connectivity between phones by running an app. We ported Spines onto the Android platform for a proof of concept. Project page.