Crowd-sourced study spot information in the palm of your hand Using Spott you could check informations about your favorite study spots in campus. It shows what’s the open hours for each study spot, how crowded it is, and what amenities are available in that study spot. Spott solves 3 major UIUC students problem: checking whether a study spot is open, […]
Alfred – Virtual Butler
An alexa app that knows where you put stuff using Amazon echo, web server, and bluetooth beacons Have you ever stayed in an airbnb room, a hotel, or even crashing to a friend’s place and found yourself knowing nothing about where things are? Well now, with an echo and a bunch of bluetooth beacons you could label every corner of […]
Altruist Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19_6mbKdtFI A volunteering ‘job board’ for communities using interconnected Amazon Echo Altruist Club is a platform where members can post and fulfill requests to other fellow members nearby. These requests involve those of all kinds, from renting ladders, to help painting a house. We hope to help foster stronger communities with this platform.
PokeSlot
Pokemon Slot Machine Game This was a Java app that I made back in the end of high school. Java was my first programming language. And back then I was trying to learn to use the swing library for UI elements. So I thought why not make a silly slot machine game that uses as much UI elements as I […]
Task Slave App
Previous Next This is the first native Android app I made. I made it right before I went to college. I name it TaskSlave because I am a slave of my own task list. And I used to use it often. I made it because I often create a To-Do list out of papers, and realized that I could’ve saved […]
Project Chimr
This is a project that my hackathon team made in Wildhacks 2015. We won “Best Communication Hacks” nominated by Twilio. More details of the project can be found here. Simple, secure, and trendy-looking box that’s easy to install Chimr is contained in a secure cardboard casing with ‘stylish’ skin that is up-to date with the current trend. It is very […]
Virtual Reality for Interior Design (VRID) Research Project
VRID is an explorative research project under Professor Ranjitha Kumar of University of Illinois. In this research, we measured the usability of virtual reality systems for creative tasks such as Interior Design in contrast to traiditional desktop systems. Results shows that users are more immeresed, more engaged, more creative, spent more time, willing to spend more money, and overall more […]
The Hacker Culture
This short piece is about a reminiscent of my stays in California. In Silicon Valley to be precise. And how unique of a culture it has, to be the center of the global tech industry. It forever changed my view in life and business. The year was 2014. I just came to the states right after I finished high school. […]
Why I Pursue Computer Science
Some say life is a journey. And I have to say, I’ve been privileged to work with very smart and ambitious people during my journey so far. I met these people at different places: UIUC, PayPal, Silicon Valley, LA, Chicago, etc. And they also came from different places: USA, Iran, China, Germany, etc. Everybody has a name, everybody has a […]