Projects

In this paper, we develop a cost-benefit model that uses housing and demographic data from the U.S. Census, solar irradiance and electricity price data from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and roof segmentation data from Google's Project Sunroof to study cost-effectiveness by zip code of purchasing one particular model of a rooftop solar installation, the Tesla solar roof and Powerwall.

We find that zip codes in the arid, sunny Southwest have the highest cost-effectiveness, while Appalachia and western Washington have the lowest cost-effectiveness, due to low electricity prices and low solar irradiance, respectively. We also discuss the impact of different federal and state subsidy models on cost-effectiveness.

Along with assisting in the data preprocessing and analysis, I made and designed the maps displaying our results using QGIS and Adobe Illustrator.

An online buy-sell platform used by over 10,000 people in Hyde Park and its surrounding neighborhoods in Chicago. I built it using React, Django, Docker, and Amazon AWS.

Every year millions of people around the world read The Chicago Maroon's journalism online. I rebuilt the website from the ground up using Django as well as JavaScript and moved the site from being hosted locally to being supported by Amazon AWS.

The Maroon received an award from the Illinois College Press Association for being the best university newspaper website in Illinois in 2018. It won in the large school (4,000+ students) non-dailies category.