Software Engineer at Microsoft who studied Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science at Duke University. Interested in algorithms, app development, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, rock climbing, and Duke basketball. Contact me at molson194@gmail.com.
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Recipe website that links with AmazonFresh. Applied for start up funding. Waiting to hear back.
Publishing book on Amazon. Novel about real-world topics that never come up in class.
Published 'Scaling properties of noise-induced switching in a bistable tunnel diode circuit' in Europhysics Journal
Created art Instagram account and bot to generate traffic. Got 2000+ followers.
Used LSTM to predict intra-day stock prices and SVM to predict tennis match winners.
Algorithm that compares potential to make money through sports betting. Determined small-conference NCAA basketball is best sport to bet on.
My blog about life, school, work, politics, computer science, and other random topics.
Simple compiler to learn about different stages of modern compiler construction.
Followed tutorial and created bootloader, built kernal (with malloc), made video outputs, handled interrupts, and built a shell.
Written in SML-NJ for ECE 553. Based on Modern Compiler Implementation by Andrew Appel
Automatically schedules tenting shifts based on availability for UNC and other games
Learning about web development in Go. Job website with personal profiles (similar to LinkedIn)
Mirror that displays weather, calendar, and random video. Group project for Embedded Systems course.
Awarded Lord Foundation Grant for $5,000 to study memristors. Produced integrated circuit and verified switching for memristor
Supervised learning (SVM, neural networks), Unsupervised learning (clustering, deep learning), and best practices (bias/variance theory).
Currently taking course on front and back end web development. Learning js, bootstrap, jQuery, databases, node, vue, react, and d3.
iOS app that compares Uber and Lyft surge pricing at your current location
Trying to emulate a military visualization and control software. Simplified globe display using Cesium.js.
Chess playing program using minimax algorithm and alpha beta algorithm
Watched all lectures and completed all assignments for introductory course in ML that covers the basic theory, algorithms, and applications
Figured out how to simulate location to teleport anywhere to catch pokemon. Picture at White House.
Challenge your friends to beer pong games and see who is the best based on number of wins or cup differential
Graphic design work using GIMP
Learned about search problems (A*, CSP, minimax), reinforcement learning, bayes nets, hidden markov models, and machine learning.
Anonymous group messaging app made with Swift. Released to the App Store.
Simple alarm system using Arduino Uno, ping sensor, led strip, and piezoelectric speaker.
Started working on algorithmic trading. Decided trading on fundamentals has low chance of success (despite my +600% gain). Next, I am working on trading based on news sentiment.
Built dashboard and beer tracker for Avery IPAs and APIs hackathon. Used Vaadin and Pusher to display and track data.
Simple traffic light made with Arduino UNO, 3 LEDs, and 3 220-Ohm resistors.
Travel website with trips for study abroad students.
Current events texting service using Plivo SMS, Heroku cloud (Flask), and Wikipedia current events
Wake up call service using Plivo Call API, Heroku cloud (Flask), and APScheduler.
An iOS social media plotform for dares. Facebook integration for friends and Stripe integration for crowdfunding.
Mac App of simple spider solitaire game. Play with 1, 2, or 4 decks. Undo and redo moves. Built and released in 5 days.
Simple snake game built on FPGA with Verilog and MIPS code. Used FPGA buttons as inputs, VGA as game output, and 7-segment LED as score output.
Built in Verilog HDL for FPGA. Included multiplier, divider, ALU, register file. Used bypassing, fast branching, and many other tricks to speed up computation.
Automated python script used to enroll a student in classes, so the student gets classes before they fill up. Helped me get into golf class.
Built this website to show my portfolio. Used template to help with CSS.
Python script to automate Southwest flight checkin.
Latex and PDF of my resume.
Spontaneous location-based event planning app for iOS. Parse cloud backend. Built in approximately 6 hours at HackDuke.
Adder, comparator, SR Latch, JKFF, FSM Counter, Asychronous FSM, Light following Arduino with RFID detection
Speed of light, blackbody spectrum, muon detection, optical interference with Michelson interferometer, photoelectric effect, two-slit interference
Music synthesis, digital audio effects (echo, flanging, feedback), touch tone phone decoder, sampling and aliasing, voice scrambler/descrambler, AM radio
Built program counter, register file, and ALU for simple processor. Used logisim to design circuit elements.
Implemented single level cache and memory system in Java. Used write-back and write-allocate. Handled hits and misses.
Created huffman compression algorithm and huffman decompression algorithm in Java. Derived pre-character encodings and wrote bits according to the encoding.
Made text generator based on characters and words in Java. Used a hashmap to store data efficiently.
Estimated the value of the percolation threshold via the Monte Carlo Simultion in Java. Used DFS to see if a path existed. Used union find to connect elements in a set.
Implemented in Java for Boggle game. Used Binary search with all possible words. Used trie algorithm to create word prefixes.
