- Geospatial Computer Vision and GenAI AI/ML at AWS
- Custom AI/ML model for Edge Computer Vision
- AI/ML Artwork at the Smithsonian
- Data Platform for Clinical Genomic Research
- Video Analytics for Retail
- Tyco Patent Award
- Wireless Analytics for Retail
- Chicago Bicycle Safety Data Visualization
- Augmented Reality Art Viewing Platform
- Smart Snowboard
- Open Source Person Tracking for Humanities
- Local History via Mobile Augmented Reality
- Experimental Art & Architecture in LA
- Wearable AR Application Prototyping
- Experimental Art & Architecture in Chicago
- Realtime Sensors for Performance
- Collaborative XR Authoring and Performance
- Ambient Informatics – IOT Case Study
- Macroeconomic Sculpture
- Future Internet Architecture Research
- Chicago Digital Youth UX Case Study
- Research Proposal: Education, Agriculture, Technology
- Mobile Application Development
- Facial Recognition Artwork – Bustin’ Out
- Playscape 3: Interactive Ocean (Pediatric Ward)
- Face Invaders AR Artwork
- Web Interaction Design
- Face Detection Artwork: Thought Bubbles
- Metagenomic AR Visualization – Atlas In Silico
- Warhol Timeline
- Public Art IOT in UK
- Playscape 2: Interactive Media – (Pediatric Ward)
- Point of Sale Case Study
- SDSS
- Digital Architecture Case Study : Rodan
- Playscape 1: Interactive Hologram (Pediatric Ward)
- Play (at Danny’s)
- Realtime Video Art
Geospatial Computer Vision and GenAI AI/ML at AWS
From 2020-2024, I worked as a Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer at AWS Worldwide Public Sector, assisting government and nonprofits with AI/ML solutions. I collaborated with talented colleagues and customers on diverse use cases […]
Custom AI/ML model for Edge Computer Vision
I’m co-author on a paper ‘CupidShuffle’ that modifies MobileNet embedding to to use Transformers, result is an efficient embedded computer vision model targeting edge/IOT. The core idea and implementation were performed by co-author Matt, I […]
AI/ML Artwork at the Smithsonian
I helped build an AI/ML sculpture in the Smithsonian Futures Exhibition (2021-22) AWS commissioned Suchi Reddy to create an artwork projecting a positive and inclusive vision for AI/ML conceptual framework for the artwork and embedding […]
Data Platform for Clinical Genomic Research
At Tempus 2019-2022 as a paired engineering lead on a ‘one pizza‘ team, I designed, built, and realized a custom clinical and molecular research platform enabling scientific collaboration on one of the largest anonymized multimodal […]
Video Analytics for Retail
2017-18, I led a cross-functional R&D team at our company that partnered w/ R&D at Xylinx, Intel, Google, and XNOR for next generation retail smart camera design. I first demonstrated initial ‘back end’ AI/ML models […]
Tyco Patent Award
I made a tool that improved data quality of an ‘edge IOT’ application at work (which was not coincidentally the product I was hired to help maintain, extend, and refactor 2015 – 2017). It was […]
Wireless Analytics for Retail
Refactored an acquired startup ‘interior analytics’ code into a standard production micro-services application deployment (CI/CD, dev/state/production, testing, monitoring) initially bluetooth, then wifi Succeeded – got it over 70x faster. decomposed the ‘application monolith’ w/ micro-service […]
Chicago Bicycle Safety Data Visualization
This is an interactive data visualization that allows intuitively deep exploration of a dataframe on bicycle accidents in Chicago. Day of Week, Time of Day, Severity of Accident, Hit and Run, and Month*, are both […]
Augmented Reality Art Viewing Platform
This was an ideal client: a self-funded and accomplished artist (Richard Shelton) that wanted to show lifetimes of work by accomplished yet under-represented artists in a pop-up art gallery in Los Angeles, down the street […]
Smart Snowboard
Worked with a great group of 4 talented hackers over 3 months in our spare time to develop a really great little circuit that gets mounted in a snowboard. (Samy Kamkar did the lighting patterns, […]
Open Source Person Tracking for Humanities
OpenPTrack is an open source person tracking project that is meant for creative uses of person tracking. (including STEM education). Installed ten multi-sensor installations (and counting) throughout 2014 & early 2015 using OpenPtrack, a scalable open-source […]
Local History via Mobile Augmented Reality
Worked with UCLA REMAP to make the LASHP Trails, which soft launched in April 2014. Helped a cohort of students and researchers glue together local histories and geography as immersive geographic AR layers over what […]
Experimental Art & Architecture in LA
Helped produce and engineer the LA launch of Skyline in Downtown LA Feb 13-22, 2014. 10 impossibly creative installations, musical performances in urban spaces rarely open to the public. for free! See LA Times article […]
Wearable AR Application Prototyping
Google Glass development as part of a research project at UCLA Software prototypes included continuous photography, sensor broadcast, video publishing and realtime distributed teleprompter. some press here, and here. some small bits of the code, here… Tools: Java, […]
Experimental Art & Architecture in Chicago
Assisted production and installation of interactive artwork nightly along the river in Chicago, as part of Level – a new event by now-dissolved LERATA in conjunction with Art Expo Chicago. Installation artists : Daniel Miller (Site A), Julio […]
Realtime Sensors for Performance
“Wearable Sensors for Multimedia Performance” Einstein’s Dreams As an experiment in augmentation of live aerial performance, I wrote engine to process and filter realtime data from the VN-100 industrial gyroscope, as well as various motion graphics […]
Collaborative XR Authoring and Performance
I supported the STEM ‘Digital Mural project’ where sensors enabled the students and public to interact with the student web-authored murals through body movements linearized to concepts. My role was extracting needs to form use […]
Ambient Informatics – IOT Case Study
I wrote the original controlling software for a responsive bus bench that was a collaboration between architecture and engineering – it was designed by the UCLA Architecture department and facilitated by our UCLA REMAP lab. […]
Macroeconomic Sculpture
The sculpture, commissioned by Transmedia 2012, visualizes creative labor and its relationship to GDP across the world: it has five intertwined strands of fifty lighting elements, each of which represents a country. They are arranged by GDP per […]
Future Internet Architecture Research
As a UCLA Staff Research Analyst, I was fortunate to contribute to the National Science Foundation’s Future Internet project called Named Data Networking (NDN). We wrote applications in both IP and NDN to compare them, […]
Chicago Digital Youth UX Case Study
Formal Usability Study and UX as a final project for a usability class, instructed by Nicole Pinkard when she was at DePaul. It was a real-world project: how to get urban youth access to the […]
Research Proposal: Education, Agriculture, Technology
EAT was a Chicago-based nonprofit that focuses on food production and technology as a means to enhance education, personal health & environmental awareness. It did so by hosting hackathons, engaging other non profits, and facilitating […]
Mobile Application Development
I created a mobile version of a calendar and print-project site. One of the first applications to use HP’s cloud print API. This, along with PhotoBooth, was my first commercial IOS application. Performed while working […]
Facial Recognition Artwork – Bustin’ Out
I made and installed an interactive public artwork for an annual week-long experimental art & architecture event in New Orleans using facial recognition for fun. Visitors would experience their head projected on a bust, tony-style, […]
Playscape 3: Interactive Ocean (Pediatric Ward)
My third interactive design study for a pediatric ward. I conceived, developed, and installed a 4800×1200 video wall array with 3D generative organisms that respond to both crowd behavior as well as individual children. Multiuser. […]
Face Invaders AR Artwork
This was initially a functional prototype toward an idea of emotive inversion. You smile, it frowns. It oppresses. It reads your emotions, and is rather menacing. It was meant as a playful reaction to people’s […]
Web Interaction Design
As BBSing in early 90s grew into early web experimentation in 1994-7, I did my first commercial website (for a Chicago shoe store) in 1998 (RIP Soul Junkies !) As freelance (2004-2008) and then as […]
Face Detection Artwork: Thought Bubbles
Two storefront windows along Canal street in New Orleans were transformed for one week into nightly ‘intelligent video mirrors’ for an Art & Architecture festival. One simply took pictures of anyone who faced their reflection […]
Metagenomic AR Visualization – Atlas In Silico
Participated in a team to realize a 60-monitor stereoscopic VR experience that allowed the user multimodal interaction with over the millions of new proteins from Craig Venter’s CAMERA project; which followed Darwin’s path, sampling and […]
Warhol Timeline
Wrote custom serial driver for capacitive touchscreen z-depth, and added actionscript to existing application to interface. (2007). this was before everyone had a touch screen in their pocket 😉 tools: Flash/Actionscript, Python, PHP, Java, Linux, XML […]
Public Art IOT in UK
Working with a group of artists in the UK, I helped prototype future work while installing and maintaining ongoing work. Tools: Python, C, serial, Pure Data, linux, embedded systems
Playscape 2: Interactive Media – (Pediatric Ward)
My second interactive design study for a pediatric ward in Hackensack, NJ. Primary components: digital screen behind waterfall seamless indoor video windows interactive kiosks, audio spotlights, media server worked for MVMT with Setpixel to design […]
Point of Sale Case Study
Developed a Point of Sale system w/ Kiosks in 2003 from scratch from user interviews & needs extraction per role. Went to extreme of building our own credit card gateway to avoid third party transaction […]
SDSS
Actual coordinates of 300,000 Galaxies plotted and projected, responding in realtime to the proximity of the viewer(s). 15 feet of gallery floor space is thus isomorphically aligned to the 15 billion light years of our […]
Digital Architecture Case Study : Rodan
Interactive bathroom mirrors w/ video effects and information graphic overlays. Made custom plugins to existing open source software. Also interactive bathroom foyer projection indicating occupancy, average wait times, as well as interactive artificial life for […]
Playscape 1: Interactive Hologram (Pediatric Ward)
My first interactive design study for a pediatric ward. Interactive environmental sound installation in a Children’s Hospital waiting room. 64 frames of a 3D render fused into a PHSCologram by Artn. Natural sounds react to […]
Play (at Danny’s)
Play was Chicago’s longest running weekly experimental night (eventually second only to Jeff Parker‘s and John Herndon‘s Tuesday @ Rodan). (for seasonal, not weekly, hats off to Lampo!) Every single Monday night from 1997 to 2004, […]
Realtime Video Art
from 1997 – 2002 I did realtime video with an SGI o2, often making sensors for input until cameras ate the sensors. Culminated with winning a contest for Brothomstates Music Video for Warp Records / […]