Teaching Assistant for MRSD Project I (16-681) in Spring 2023

• Refined a custom feature-matching tool across two educational platforms, implementing advanced corner and color detection techniques to improve object recognition capabilities

• Employed optimization strategies to ensure the tool effectively handled challenges such as variations in scale, rotation, lighting conditions, and occlusions

• Expanded functionality of the visualization tool by incorporating additional features and fixes

• Implemented multimodal sensor fusion using EKF to improve image alignment and stitching

• Managed a community of youth that worked towards implementing tech-for-social-good solutions

• Led the conceptualization, development and production of the following products:

1. Portable air quality monitors installed in 50 public buses

2. A portal used by citizens to report civic issues, for example, potholes