Pokémon GO, Monster Hunter Now, and Pikmin Bloom

(Acquired Niantic's games division)

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• Assisted faculty to teach a CS capstone course of 50+ students by holding weekly office hours to explain programming methods for AR/VR projects in Unreal/Unity and answering questions on Piazza.

• Received unanimously positive feedback from students’ teaching evaluations.

Core Infrastructure/Trust & Safety Team

• Used open-source LLMs to build content moderation features like flagging messages under a specific category, summarizing chat messages to give moderators context on a flagged message, and translating chat messages, which reduced dependence on third-party APIs and improved user data privacy.

• Built a safety feature to block/hide harmful URLs w/ 3 tiers of security in Java, GCP, & Protobuf.

• Developed an AR Android/iOS mobile app with Unity3D/C#/Vuforia using accurate 3D statistical body shape models to test vehicle designs for accommodation of various occupant body types.

• Tested the app through real-world experiments to ensure accuracy of body shape measurements for use in automobile engineering and medical areas.

• Won the Blue Ribbon Award for exceptional presentation of the app during the Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Michigan and third place in the 2022 UMTRI Summer Research Poster Contest.