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What's on the desk right now — books, lab projects, courses, and the things that don't fit neatly into a résumé.

Lab — What's Cooking

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Nadir

ADAS sensor drift detection with Kalman filter banks, multi-sensor fusion, and edge inference for OEM fleets.

PythonC++Kalman FiltersLiDARRadar
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Visa AIMS

Active Incident Management System — autonomous L2 incident orchestration on production financial datalake.

TypeScriptPythonMLStream Processing
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IVSurf v2

Regime-adaptive vol surface with HMM-gated model switching between SVI, SABR, and Heston.

PythonGARCHscikit-learn
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Stipulate

Micro-startup — card benefit intelligence API parsing 200+ US cards with LLM routing to maximize rewards.

TypeScriptHonoNext.jsLLMFintech
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Graphite

Micro-startup — embeddable Rust TSDB for financial tick data with custom LSM-tree and GQL query language.

RustLSM-treePyO3GQL

Reading

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Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives

John Hull

Working through Greeks and exotic options — feeding directly into IVSurf.

reading

Probabilistic Robotics

Thrun, Burgard & Fox

Kalman filters and sensor fusion for Nadir drift detection architecture.

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

Foundation for Visa AIMS stream processing and datalake pipeline design.

done

Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications

Szeliski

Reference for BOS/PIV pipeline development at PPPL and NASA.

Connect

Courses @ Michigan

  • EECS 281 — Data Structures & Algorithms
  • EECS 370 — Computer Organization
  • EECS 376 — Foundations of Computer Science
  • EECS 445 — Introduction to Machine Learning
  • EECS 442 — Computer Vision
  • EECS 484 — Database Management Systems

Fun Facts

  • Co-founded Nadir for ADAS sensor drift detection targeting OEM integration
  • 18+ public GitHub repos including IVSurf, KiloFlicks, BallStars, and EdgeBoard
  • 3 peer-reviewed publications in BOS imaging and biomimetic aerodynamics
  • Presented NASA research to 200+ researchers at GLOBE Symposium
  • Udemy instructor — teaching software engineering and computer vision

Hobbies

Photography — portraits, travel, tech — on Instagram and Pinterest

Sports analytics — the original inspiration for Hooply

Autonomous systems field research — Serve Robotics, Waymo

Teaching on Udemy

Try BallStars

Advanced basketball career simulation — open source on GitHub

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