aarsh/projects

Projects

Decentralized Study Notes Marketplace November 2024

★ 5 Web3 IPFS Solidity

Secure note sharing with decentralized storage and incentive design.

Prototyped a Web3 marketplace where students could publish, verify, and exchange high-quality study notes through IPFS-backed storage and Solidity-based reward mechanisms.

Protocol notes.market

iLog 2.0 April 2024

★ 7 IEEE Xplore Health AI Object Detection

Smart-health food identification and nutrition estimation system.

Built a lightweight object-detection pipeline that identifies foods and estimates nutritional values, demonstrating practical diet-tracking performance for real-world use.

Paper iLog 2.0

IoT Laundry Tracker February 2025

★ 4 IoT Sensors Dashboard

Campus-specific monitoring for dorm laundry availability.

Built a vibration-sensor device and web dashboard that tracks machine usage patterns in campus laundry rooms, making wait times visible before students walk across the dorm.

Device laundry.live

JWST Cosmic Ray Filtering Pipeline June 2025

★ 10 Python DBSCAN PCA Astronomy

Machine learning pipeline for telescope readout noise.

Designed a DBSCAN-PCA workflow for identifying and filtering cosmic ray artifacts in telescope detector readouts, improving runtime by 10x while preserving interpretable clustering behavior.

Gaussian noise reference texture Pipeline jwst-noise

Mars Terrain Segmentation Model March 2025

★ 8 Computer Vision MobileNetV3 DeepLabV3

Real-time semantic segmentation for rover navigation.

Created a lightweight MobileNetV3 and DeepLabV3 architecture for rover terrain parsing, tuned for low-latency edge deployment on Jetson Nano hardware.

Model terrain-seg

MindMates App October 2024

★ 12 AI Accessibility Education

AI-powered tutoring platform for autistic students in grades 2-10.

Developed a personalized learning platform deployed across 16 Title I schools, pitched to 14 Fortune 500 firms, and secured $12K in funding through the Congressional App Challenge ecosystem.

Website MindMates