Projects

Built an end-to-end distributed search engine in Java with a custom HTTP server, distributed key-value store, Flame-style compute layer, robust crawler, inverted indexer, PageRank ranking, and frontend search interface.

• Custom web server, KVS, crawler, indexer, PageRank, and search frontend
• Robots.txt handling, rate limiting, blacklist filtering, and URL normalization

Built a time-series machine learning pipeline to predict League of Legends match outcomes from Riot API timeline data. Engineered temporal player/team features and compared deep learning models with tree-based baselines across multiple game-time checkpoints.

• Processed 128K+ in-game frames from 4,546 matches
• Engineered 256 temporal features with leakage-aware train/validation/test splits

Models of ideological conflict incorporating committed minorities and deradicalization factors. Applied bifurcation and stability analyses to study opinion fragmentation and group dynamics.

• Modeled interaction dynamics between mainstream and committed minority groups
• Studied stability, bifurcation behavior, and deradicalization strategies