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Hi. I'm Ashwin. I will be starting my freshman year at UC Berkeley Fall 2018 and will be studying Computer Science. Programming and web design have always played a large role in my life considering its application to nearly everything; the power of computing nowadays opens up opportunities to develop methods and algorithms to simplify every-day tasks. Computer Science also challenges the mind to overcome obstacles that are unmatched in other fields. I believe the problem-solving aspect of computer science can also be applied to business and financial fields. These reasons ultimately sparked my interest in Computer Science and my dedication to the field. Some of my projects are listed below:
At Facebook's Global Hackathon in Menlo Park, three other college students and I represented HackIllinois and competed against 16 of the best hackathon teams from universities around the world. We built an app to detect sadness using biometric data and sentiment analysis data from Facebook posts. The app would automatically contact friends and family members if the user is abnormally sad, prompting them to contact the user. After making it to the top 5 round, we presented in front of Facebook executives and were later awarded an honorable mention, or 4th overall. (See 21:30 below)
In Feburary 2017, Wanqi Zhu, Alex Gajewski, Jonathan Lipman, and I competed in the annual HackIllinois at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Competing against around 3000+ college students from around the nation, our team created a BitCoin algorithm platform for live data tests and simulations. We ended up winning Facebook's Favorite Hack, inviting us to the Global Hackathon at Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park in Fall 2017. More information about the project can be found here.
During the 2016-2017 year, I built a smartphone controlled car using a Bluetooth Low Energy module and an Arduino. Some of the processes in completing the car included: designing a chassis and laser-cutting the template in acrylic, soldering numerous circuits, coding with Arduino's C++ dialect, understanding electronical concepts like Pulse Width Modulation and the physics behind AC and DC Motors. More information can be found here.