Hi, I'm

Liyaan




ABOUT

I'm a rising senior at Brown University studying Computer Science. In my free time, I play the piano as part of Brown's Applied Music Program and I write as a Senior Reporter for The Brown Daily Herald. Check out my stories!
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EXPERIENCE




PROJECTS

Web Application - Twitter Feed
Used React to create a user interface which displays recent Tweets on specific topic. Users can stop and restart the feed. Tweets are displayed in chronological order with most recent tweets at the top.
Web Application - Realtime Chatroom
Developed a realtime chatroom in NodeJS with a MongoDB backend. Users can post and receive messages and live typing notifications. Messages are censored for abusive language using the profanity-censor npm module.
Web Application - This Website
I coded this website using HTML, CSS and Javascript. The comics in this section are from XKCD.
Machine Learning - Decision Tree
Implemented a decision tree model in python to predict the outcome of a chess game. Trained the model on the chess.csv dataset, which contains 36 features, representing the current state of the chess board.
Machine Learning - Neural Networks
Implemented a feed forward neural network from scratch in Python, using stochastic gradient descent. Trained the neural network to predict the quality of wine, using the UCI Wine Dataset.
Functional Programming - Campus Tour
Designed a program that calculates the optimal path to take from one location on Brown's campus to another, based on a set of locations. Utilized graphical coordinates and Dijkstra’s Algorithm to implement an efficient algorithm.
Recommendation Engine - Books
Developed a program in Pyret that analyzes a list of files to give users a recommendation of both singular books and pairs of books based on the frequency of books appearing in conjunction.
iOS App Development - UScreen
Worked on iOS application for UScreen, a Brown University student startup. Developed augmented reality interface using ARKit to display areas of a user’s face most sensitive to the sun. Notify user to apply sunscreen based on current UV index.



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