Technology

Hayao Miyazaki is my favorite artist and director. Though I haven’t watched his entire filmography, every moment of the films I have seen captivates me. In “Spirited Away,” the dust ball creatures exemplify his artistic prowess—his ability to infuse life into the mundane through his drawings. His work is truly a labor of love. Every scene in his animated films is hand-drawn and painted with watercolor. To put this dedication in perspective: a single 4 second crowd scene from Studio Ghibli required 1 year and 3 months to complete. At 24 frames per second, that’s 96 images—roughly 6.4 images per month or one-third of an image in an eight-hour workday. At this rate, animators would spend a decade creating just 28.8 seconds of footage. This extraordinary commitment to craft has established Miyazaki’s work as iconic for decades. ...

Content recommendation system leveraging embedding similarity for personalized content recommendation.

Interactive chat interface with multiple AI agents, enabling dynamic conversation flows and specialized problem-solving capabilities.

Content recommendation system based on dynamic user profiles.

Interactive learning aids for reading comprehension and engagement.

Advised by Prof. Kristian Hammond. Developed LLM product that analyzes real-time audio conversations, detects relevancy and misconceptions, and provides targeted Socratic questions and material suggestions through RAG. Groupal aims to help students work together more effectively and build a deeper understanding in study sessions. The project’s goal is to create a virtual learning assistant that listens to real-time student discussions, detects misconceptions, and facilitates discussions through Socratic questioning techniques and relevant background knowledge retrieval. ...

A trip planning tool for generating itinearies based on article url input and content extraction. (Prototype: what2do-51224.web.app)

Insight extraction from popular opinion. Multi-modal ai content understanding for opinion and insight extraction from shortform videos. (crowdlistening.com) Credits: Madison Bratley, Violet Liu

Content understanding, generative agentic workflows, voice ai.

Realtime conversation with aI companion to help you note down feelings and journals for the day. (Prototype: https://peptalk-navy.web.app/) Credits: Lian Zhang, Janna Lee, Soham Shah, Jonny Kong