Undergrad

Undergraduate Projects #

Undergraduate Research Symposium #

Creating a Linguistic Gold Standard for Greek #

I worked with the late iSchool professor, Efthimis Efthimiadis, to help parse the Greek language for use in Greek search engines.

Me presenting at the Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Me presenting at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Look at that young Zach!

It was my first real use case for python and learning firsthand how O(n) can impact your code. My initial code took waaay to long to run. But with some improvements, I could scan the whole corpus and find the stems in less than 5 minutes.

Align #

Re-imagining the Calendar #

Align was a design project in which my team and I were tasked with creating a new way to think about calendars.

We explored several options, and landed upon going with a time-line visualization. My biggest individual contribution was the video, and I had a blast with it.

One Bus Away #

Transit Ambassador Project #

The One Bus Away Transit Ambassador was my Informatics capstone project. One Bus Away is a service that gives you real-time bus times. Our program aimed to reduce time errors via “Transit Ambassadors” – power users who want to give back to the service.