Mississippi Jail Projections: Understanding the Bailable Population
- Supports The Bail Project's expansion into Mississippi by analyzing the pretrial population and identifying individuals eligible for bail assistance.
- Scrapes jail roster data daily from 17 Mississippi counties that publish records online.
- Processes and feeds collected data into an interactive analysis tool for insights.
- Provides data-driven insights on jail demographics, bail amounts, and trends based on county, charges, and other factors to help allocate resources effectively.
Mozilla MVP Spring Lab, WeAreImpactful.org
- Created website using GitHub Pages and React to connect technologists to socially impactful opportunities and provide a forum for impact-driven students to interact (4,000 monthly users).
- Selected in top 5% of teams to receive a $7,500 grant and mentorship from top serial entrepreneurs for Mozilla’s MVP Lab.
- Won $30,000 grant from New America to expand the website and research pathways in public interest technology.
Hiding from the Eyes of the City
- Interactive installation developed with Prof. Ben Aranda & Cooper Union Architecture Seminar, allowing participants to test facial recognition and explore anonymity in real-time.
- Highlights ethical concerns surrounding surveillance, privacy, and countermeasures against unauthorized tracking.
Data Science for Social Good, Cooper Union Elective
The following are group projects I worked on:
- Analyzed Robinhood’s job placement programs by processing and visualizing data from community partner programs, performing correlation analysis, machine learning modeling (XGBoost, Random Forest, SVM, Lasso), and demographic insights to identify key factors influencing job placement, retention, and program effectiveness, helping optimize resource allocation and funding decisions.
- Developed data-driven and interactive projects for City Harvest to analyze and visualize food insecurity trends in NYC, including a meal distribution website, a machine learning model predicting meal and supply gaps, and a tactile art installation raising awareness on food insecurity, using data from City Harvest, FeedNYC, and Open Source NYC datasets.
- Analyzed data from Grameen America, a nonprofit microfinance organization founded by Muhammad Yunus, to examine retention trends among members and identify key factors influencing long-term participation.
Invention Factory
- The SAYFT System (Security at Your FingerTips) is an improved, flexible, and discreet security system that provides an additional layer of protection against concealed weapons in the form of metal detection.
- The system comprises a metal detecting panel that can be hidden in different embodiments, such as a door or rug. Each embodiment communicates wirelessly with a smartphone application and features such as a camera, an automatic door lock, and a speaker, in order to provide the user with more information about the potential danger of a situation.
