Rearchitected Android’s data store logic into several singleton models while removing dependency cycles throughout the app, removed SQL queries and data store access run on the main thread to reduce the number of crashes caused by ANRs, and updated the download manager to prioritize streaming downloads over concurrent automatic downloads.

Implemented mentions in group chats, designed future-proofed message types for the WhatsApp Android application, updated registration flow, and created notifications in preparation for device deprecation.

Developed an Android Wearable app for the Grey project that provided secured access control to physical space at the Carnegie Mellon Collaborative Innovation Center based on user permissions.

Technologies used: Java, Android, Ant, Subversion

The Research Science Institute selects 81 students out of an international pool of over 1000 high school students to conduct research in the Boston area for the summer.

There, I conducted research in the field of group theory under the direction of Dr. Moon Duchin and found a novel method for predicting the growth functions of generating sets of the standard integer lattice.