Robotics

As the vice captain of the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team at Texas A&M, I've created quite a few different programs. The team as a whole creates a robot which goes underwater and completes an obstacle course in a pool. We aren't allowed to use remote controls, so the programming is more involved, and I've learned some interesting things. This includes using the Robot Operating System (ROS) to create publishers and subscribers for all of our sensors (such as depth sensors, thrusters, and more). I've also experimented on creating our object detection model. Our previous models didn't work well underwater, so we trained a new RoboFlow camera model, and used RoboFlow's Docker-based inference server to run it locally (so it worked without internet connectivity).

Research

In my work as a research assistant for Dr. Morriss of the Texas A&M Law School, I've worked on several projects with interesting data analytics. I've worked on graphing the influence of various patents using network analytics, and am currently graphing the evolution of African Tax Treaties. I've also helped create and maintain software which extracts citations from legal cases, either domestic or international.

Papers

I've also worked on several research papers. As a research assistant, I co-wrote a paper on patent data as a means of determinining industrial policy, which is out for publication in Fall 2025. I wrote a paper on Free Speech Zones and the First Amendment, which earned Texas A&M University's nomination for the Portz Scholar Award. The Texas A&M Honors faculty selected this paper out of all papers written by Honors students in the 2024–2025 academic year.