6-Axis Robotic Arm

November 2024 - April 2025

Led a 5-member team building control systems for a 6-DOF robotic arm inspired by the Modern Robotics UR3 for presentation at UIUC's Engineering Open House event.

• Developed Arduino Mega control framework for stepper/encoder integration and closed-loop actuation
• Implemented serial streaming between Python motion planning and Arduino firmware
• Coordinated with mechanical and electrical engineering teams to integrate hardware and software

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Amazon Web Scraper

June 2023

Built a high-throughput Amazon scraper to extract product and price data via concurrent requests with intelligent caching and session management.

• Leveraged asyncio and aiohttp for concurrent web requests with BeautifulSoup parsing
• Implemented caching/session management and CSV export functionality
• Modular design supports background or cron execution for automated price monitoring

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Google PageRank Implementation

March 2023

Implemented Google's PageRank algorithm using both sampling and power-iteration convergence methods on crawled web graphs.

• Built HTML crawler and random-surfer transition model with damping factor
• Implemented both iterative and sampling-based PageRank computation approaches
• Simulated realistic web navigation patterns to rank page importance

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Social Media Site

December 2022

Designed a full-stack social media web application using Django framework with Bootstrap frontend and SQLite database.

• Integrated account/security management, posting, liking, commenting, and interactive features
• Applied Model-View-Controller architecture for maintainability and scalability
• Implemented user authentication and authorization with secure password handling

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