Work
What I’ve founded, researched, and shipped. Each project has its own page: why I started it, what I did, and how far it’s gotten.
Building now
2 projects
2024 – now
Lucky
A voice-first digital guide dog that reads PDFs and email aloud for blind and low-vision people.
Exhibited at VISIONS 2026; presented to ~300 blind users
Oct 2026 – now
Library of College
An evidence bank for college essays: save your stories all year, then let AI find which ones answer each prompt.
Live in private beta
Research
2 projects
2025 – 2026
Small models vs. GPT-5 on fraud detection
Can a fine-tuned open-weight model beat a frontier model at spotting deception? Across seven domains, the smaller one did.
A fine-tuned 20B model beat GPT-5: 0.78 vs. 0.65 F1
Summer 2025
Fine-tuning GPT-2 XL on a free GPU
My first fine-tune: teaching a 1.5B-parameter model from 2019 to suggest five synonyms or antonyms for any word.
From garbled text to 3–4 sensible words out of 5
Congressional App Challenge, three years running
3 projects
2025
SnakeID
Point your phone at a snake and find out whether it's venomous, with safety guidance if it is.
Congressional App Challenge district runner-up
2024
Bills Simplified for Kids
Upload a bill from Congress and ask it questions, with answers explained so kids can understand them.
2024 Congressional App Challenge entry
Oct 2023
TeenTalk
An AI listener for teens: type what's on your mind and get a supportive, spoken response, with crisis resources when it matters.
My first Congressional App Challenge entry, in 9th grade
Shipped
5 projects
2026
Khan Academy MCP
An open-source MCP server that lets AI assistants search, browse, and read Khan Academy.
Open source; install with one command
2026
OpenCitation
A free, open-source citation manager with no ads, no tracking, and no account required.
Web, Chrome extension, and desktop; 668 tests
Jan 2026
AWS Breaks
Brakes for an AWS account: pause every running service to stop the bill, without deleting anything.
Open-source CLI, installable with pip
Summer 2024
Infotruster
A Chrome extension that uses AI to summarize the Terms of Service and privacy policies people skip.
Most Outstanding Company; first 10 paying customers
2024 – 2025
KTutor
An AI tutor that adapts to how each student learns, through video, games, or audio.
Two provisional patent applications; ran a 5-intern program
Early
2 projects
2020 – 2021
Kids Cloud Club
A free online club where I taught other kids cloud computing and AWS over Zoom.
Free classes for kids around the world, including India
Summer 2019
AWS Robotics internship
A summer with the AWS Robotics team, helping test and program their TurtleBot robots.
Programmed the TurtleBot at age 10