01 — Projects

Projects

A selection of things I've worked on — mostly machine learning and signal processing.

EEGgraph attention

ST-GAT for ADHD classification

A spatiotemporal graph attention network for Go/NoGo EEG, using phase-locking-value windows and trial-to-participant transfer learning. Results are on the research page.

open

Build

  • ERP-informed temporal windowing across five processing stages.
  • Per-window phase-locking-value adjacency graphs constraining message passing.
  • Patient-level aggregation distilling trial-level variability into compact embeddings.
  • 5-seed × 5-fold cross-validation against an EEGNet baseline.

Results

  • 75.3% ± 6.34% accuracy, +5.3 pp over EEGNet.
  • Group structure lives in embedding geometry, not spatial attention.
  • Discriminative variance compressed into few non-redundant graph-derived dimensions.
HD-MEAunsupervised

HD-MEA stress-resilience phenotyping

The pipeline behind my thesis — turning 4,096-electrode recordings into stable, label-free phenotypes of stress-exposed hippocampal slices.

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Build

  • Dual-stream processing: LFP for synaptic input, spikes for output.
  • Spectral parameterization plus spatial-entropy and burst-propagation features.
  • Vectorized artifact rejection and Gaussian kernel smoothing for 35B-sample ingestion.
  • GMM clustering with leave-one-slice-out validation and permutation nulls.

Results

  • Perfect leave-one-out stability (1.000) on the exposure signature.
  • Static features hit a hard ceiling separating resilient from vulnerable.
  • Network–energy ordering Control < Resilient < Vulnerable in microstate analysis.
computer visionself-supervised

Self-supervised representation learning on organoid microscopy

Learning from 80,000 unlabeled microscopy images with a masked autoencoder, and choosing the cluster count with an ILP solver instead of a guess.

open

Build

  • Masked Autoencoder (MAE) with a Vision Transformer backbone on 80k unlabeled images.
  • Custom correlation-clustering solver using integer linear programming (ILP) to auto-select cluster counts.

Results

  • Outperformed supervised baselines on unseen classes — ARI 0.54 vs 0.40.
  • Self-supervised pre-training learns semantic shape/texture features without labels.
optimizationstochastic

Stochastic optimization of uncertain energy markets

A two-stage stochastic program for investment and operations under demand uncertainty, including the formal value of modeling that uncertainty.

open

Build

  • Two-stage stochastic programming model in GAMS for a large-scale system.
  • Multi-variable optimization translated from theory into a solvable framework.

Results

  • Quantified the Value of Stochastic Solution (VSS) and Expected Value of Perfect Information (EVPI).
  • Showed when deterministic planning leaves money on the table.
mobilehealth

LiDAR walking-speed app

A smartphone app using LiDAR to measure walking speed — a health indicator for aging adults. Best capstone project at Penn State.

open

Build

  • LiDAR depth sensing on mobile to estimate gait velocity.
  • Designed for medical context: simple, unobtrusive, reproducible.

Result

  • Recognized as the best capstone project in the 2021 cohort for real-world impact.
ongoingliving page

More to come

More small projects, including my home server, live on the Lab page.