👋 Hi, I'm Ryan
Welcome to My Builds
Detecting Confusion via Eye-Tracking
Building Since December '25
Problem: Online media should adapt to your mental state.
Solution: Built eye-tracking glasses that detect when you're confused
Designed a size-constrained PCB for the glasses
Wrote a pupil finding algorithm
Trained an Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) that detects confusion using saccades and eye position
Impact/Awards: Building
Computer Vision Models for Tree Risk
Problem: The U.S. spends $5b+ a year trimming trees, so they don't fall on power lines. The process is super inefficient.
Solution: Built a system that locates at-risk trees
Trained CNNs to identify dying trees from Google Street View Images
Wrote algorithms to calculate tree height & find power line paths from satellite data
Impact: Pilot with national veg. management company.
1st-place in a 30-student accelerator, selected from 400 Stanford undergrads
100x Cheaper Chemical Sensor
Summer Research Project at UMass Chan
Problem: Paint and garment workers inhale colorless carcinogens called VOCs (like Benzene)
Solution: Engineered chemical dots (polydiacetylenes) that change color to detect VOCs
Built an app that interprets the color patterns using Machine Learning (PCA, SVM)
Impact/Awards: Grand Award (1st Place) in Category at Regeneron's International Science Fair. Published (1st Author).
