inContext Notebook

The inContext notebook is a daily interactive language learning application built on language acquisition science and powered by recent AI advancements. Every day, users read personalized content tailored to their proficiency level, making language learning enjoyable and effective through materials they genuinely find interesting.

inContext Dictionary

The inContext extension is a novel AI dictionary that creates unique, context-informed definitions specifically tailored to the user's language level. It works as a browser extension that serves definitions quickly and with minimal hassle. inContext is capable of handling all kinds of words that regular dictionaries aren't able to. Definitions can also be saved and exported to Anki.

Analyzing Road Quality from Satellite Imagery

In collaboration with the World Bank, we trained a neural network on IRI data and millions of satellite images in order to understand quality of rural roads.
This was the top thesis in our class!

A few other things I've done.

Some Books are More Difficult to Translate than Others

In Kotomi Li's 彼岸花が咲く島, the author weaves language and East Asian history in such a way that makes it really hard to translate. I explain why.

  • Read the Article

Variational Auto-Encoders

A project where we try to deconstruct how VAEs work and then play around with the KL divergence.

  • Report

YOLO Algorithm for Chess

We summarize how the YOLO algorithm works and train one to detect chess pieces in real time.

  • Details

Tunneling in Hyrodynamic Quantum Analogs

My undergrad thesis was on a hyrodynamic system that acts a lot like a quantum system.

  • Some More Details

Is there Evidence for Water on Mars?

I spent a summer working on research funded by a NASA grant. We eventually published the results!

  • Read the Paper

I take Picures.

Here are some that I've taken.

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