Projects

XR and Unity development, AI and LLM work, and data science, nearly all of it with students.

Current

Energy per Token: The Power Footprint of AI

How much electricity does an AI response actually use? Measuring energy per token on accessible hardware, and finding which choices save the most.

Gaze Lab: Eye Tracking in XR

Unity

Eye Tracking

In development: a hands-on Unity lab I’m building for eye-tracked headsets like the Meta Quest Pro, covering gaze interaction, foveated rendering, fixations, heatmaps and…

Bucknell App MakerSpace

Software

Entrepreneurship

Co-founder and Faculty Guru of PGCEI’s new App MakerSpace, where students of any background turn app ideas into working prototypes.

Interdisciplinary Minor in Artificial Intelligence

Curriculum

With Diane Jakacki, designing and implementing Bucknell’s first truly cross-college minor in AI, open to students in all three colleges.

TTT-Code: Test-Time Training for Local LLMs

LLM

PyTorch

Undergraduate research on test-time training: letting small, locally run language models adapt to long contexts as they read them.

LILAC: aerosoL partIcLe wAter Calculator

Data Science

Software

Aerosol Science

Open scientific software for modeling water uptake by aerosol particles, built with collaborators in Chemical Engineering.

Design & Development in XR (CSCI 379)

Unity

Teaching

A course I built from scratch: students learn Unity on Meta Quest 3 headsets, then design and build their own accessible, immersive experiences.

Past projects with students and collaborators

EXCELerator: XR Development for Engineering

Teaching

Unity

Summers 2022–2025: I led incoming engineering students through XR design-and-development projects before their first semester.

Deep Learning for Coffee Analysis

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Sensors

Ryan Koes ’26 used machine learning on sensor and voltammetry data to characterize coffee objectively. His honors thesis, defended in spring 2026.

Digital Sojourns

Unity

Digital Humanities

Technical advisor (2023–2025) to Prof. David Del Testa’s immersive virtual study-abroad project, helping the team use Unity and XR to retrace Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Deep…

VR for Healthcare Training

Unity

Healthcare

Student prototypes of collaborative VR simulations for cardiac surgical education, with Dr. Tyler Wallen at Geisinger (2023–24).

Eye-Tracking Analytics

Machine Learning

Healthcare

Eye Tracking

Mining where groups of people look: scanpath pattern mining, webcam eye tracking, and visual-salience studies with Geisinger’s Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute.

Word Prediction for AAC

Machine Learning

Healthcare

NLP

Statistical language models and an Android app to help minimally verbal children with autism communicate faster.

Bioinformatics & Sequence Learning

Machine Learning

Bioinformatics

N-gram and signal-processing methods for DNA and protein sequences: subcellular localization, genome assembly, phylogenetics, and contact maps.