Projects

Things I have built

Research systems, clinical tools, robots, drones, and a fair number of things assembled over a weekend under competition pressure. 19 projects shown.

MMM-272 motion generation output
Motion generation

MMM-272: Enhanced Text-to-Motion Generation

State-of-the-art text-to-motion generation with 272-dimensional representation, achieving superior animation quality for game engines. Direct SMPL rotation recovery removes IK artefacts from BVH output.

FID 0.093PyTorch CLIPHumanML3D
Motion autoencoder reconstruction
Representation learning

Motion Encoder Research — VQ-VAE

A VQ-VAE producing discrete motion embeddings for transformer-based generation. Codebook resets and EMA stabilisation brought reconstruction error to L2 0.0159 and L1 0.0640.

L2 0.0159VQ-VAEPyTorch
Wav2Lip running on iOS
On-device inference

Wav2Lip Lip-Sync Model — iOS Deployment

Converted and optimised a lip-sync generation model for mobile inference with CoreML, running the full pipeline on Apple silicon.

CoreMLSwiftModel conversion
GitScan repository analysis interface
Applied AI

GitScan: AI-Driven GitHub Repo Security Analyzer

Scans repositories for security issues and surfaces prioritised, explained findings rather than raw rule hits.

OpenAI APISecurityNext.js
Organ donation algorithm visualisation
Duke Heart Center & UNC

DCD Organ Donation Algorithm

An algorithm projecting a 94% improvement in organ-donation success rate while reducing ICU workload. Presented at the Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society.

+94% successHealthcare AI
Chest X-ray classification results
Medical imaging

ResNet CNN Fine-Tuned on CheXpert

Chest X-ray classification via fine-tuned ResNet50, reaching 90% accuracy on pneumonia detection, trained on a self-built GPU cluster.

90% accuracyResNet50CheXpert
VitalHealth application
AI4Health

VitalHealth: AI-Powered Health Monitoring

An iOS health monitoring system built around continuous signals and an AI scoring layer, developed at the UNCC AI4Health Center.

iOSHealth scoring
Hospital infection map
Data visualisation

Hospital Infection Map

A geospatial visualisation of hospital infection data, built to make regional patterns legible at a glance.

DataVizHealthcare
Humanoid robot platform
Embodied AI

Humanoid Robot

Advanced humanoid robotics system integrating AI-powered motion control, computer vision, and real-time sensor fusion, with autonomous navigation and human interaction.

Sensor fusionAI controlROS
17-DOF expressive humanoid head
Human–robot interaction

Humanoid Expressive Head — 17 DOF

A seventeen-degree-of-freedom expressive head driven by a language model, mapping dialogue state onto facial articulation in real time.

17-DOFROSOpenAI
Home lab GPU cluster
Infrastructure

Home Lab — AI Fine-Tuning Cluster

Dell PowerEdge servers and a 40 TB NAS over 10 GbE, used for quantisation and fine-tuning experiments on Tesla P100 GPUs.

40 TB NAS10 GbEQuantisation
Waterproof FPV drone
Hardware

Waterproof FPV Drone — Underwater Capable

A sealed FPV airframe with conformal-coated electronics that survives submersion and keeps flying after it surfaces.

ElectronicsFPV
5 inch FPV race drone
Hardware

5" FPV Digital Race Drone

A high-speed digital FPV racing build, tuned end to end from motor selection through PID rates.

Digital FPVRacing
Restored vintage Apple hardware
Restoration

Vintage Apple Device Restoration

Board-level repair and restoration of vintage Apple hardware, including micro-soldering and recapping.

Micro-solderingApple
1st place NASA Space Apps Challenge project
NASA Space Apps 2025

Raptor RAG — Space Biology Retrieval

Built Raptor RAG: an advanced retrieval-augmented generation system designed around NASA's space biology data for intelligent ingestion and retrieval. Also selected as a Global Nominee.

Global nomineeLLMsVector search
1st place NC State competitive programming contest
NC State, 2024

Competitive Programming Contest

Solved complex algorithmic challenges with optimized C++ and Python solutions, demonstrating advanced problem-solving skills.

C++PythonAlgorithms
1st place Truist Immersive FinTech Experience
Truist, 2024

Immersive FinTech Experience

A cloud-hosted financial tool built and pitched over the course of the Truist immersive programme.

FinTechAWS
1st place HackNC 2024
HackNC 2024, UNC Chapel Hill

HackNC — Winning Build

A full-stack build completed with a family team over a single weekend at UNC Chapel Hill.

Web devRapid prototyping
2nd place Unity Vision iOS app
NC State Hackathon

Unity Vision — Privacy-First Face Data

A Swift iOS app letting users contribute facial data to retrain models on more diverse datasets, with encryption designed in from the start.

SwiftPrivacyNodeJS

More on GitHub

Source for many of these projects, plus smaller experiments, lives on GitHub.