Max's Projects
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Whirlwind
Private but compliant decentralized swaps.
Using zero-knowledge proofs, Whirlwind allows for temporarily private trades on Osmosis until withdrawal. Submitted to the Delphi Labs Cosmos Hackathon with a friend. May 2023. Circom, SnarkJS, Rust, Arkworks, CosmWasm.
Plunge
Explore your curiosity :)
Use AI as your guide as you dive down your next rabbit hole. Apr 2023. Next.js, GPT-4 API, Vercel, Drizzle ORM, Clerk, Planetscale.
Dance Music Player
Music player for dancers.
Navigate songs by lyrics, speed up and slow down songs, and loop intuitively. Mar 2022. React.js, Spotify API, Firebase.
Table
Just you, your friends, and a tabletop.
We set the cards on the table, but you choose how you play. My brother and I are working together to recreate the "cards with friends" experience, but remotely. WIP. React.js, Three.js, Colyseus.
Whitelist
A minimalist productivity app.
Managing tasks should be just that. This blazing-fast app helps you spend less time on checkboxing and more time executing. Jul 2020. React.js, Firebase.
Network Analysis
Investigating disease spread using a human interaction network.
School project. Proposes a Markovian temporal graph generation algorithm based on existing data, with O(n) runtime while preserving temporal correlations. Nov 2020. NumPy, Pandas, NetworkX.
Data Consulting
Better fundraising for nonprofits.
I worked with 5 analysts to devise a fundraising strategy for Friends of the Semel Institute at UCLA, analyzing $17M in donations. Aug 2020. NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, Mapbox.
VoxelCAD
3D building made easy.
Anyone should be able to build 3D. Create smooth models using blocky voxels via marching cubes isosurfacing! Jun 2020. Three.js, React.js.
COVID-19 Stories
An anonymous story sharing platform.
No matter what you're going through—you're not alone. Share your story or read others'. I led this project during my time as a Daily Bruin editor. It received a Pacemaker Award for COVID-19 reporting. Mar 2020. React.js, Mapbox, Django.
AnimalDraw
Enhanced animal drawings!
Use NVidia's GauGAN to transform your animal sketch into a more realistic version! Jan 2020. Pytorch, Swift, iOS.
OWC Turbine
Ocean wave energy collection.
A smarter check-valve system to collect energy from both the push AND pull of ocean waves. Aug 2018. AutoCAD, 3D printing, plexiglass.
Paper Mâché Latias
School project for AP Calculus BC.
I built one of my favorite Pokémon and calculated its exact volume! May 2017. Mathematica, chicken wire, paper mâché.