Research Projects


(2017 – 2019) Ergonomic Posture Monitoring and Analysis
Published June 2019
Morris, K., Zhao, M., Lam, J., Jacobsen, G., Horgan, S., & Talke, F. E. (2019, June). A Wearable Neck Measurement Device and Monitoring System to Improve Ergonomic Performance of Surgeons. In Information Storage and Processing Systems (vol. 59124, p. V001T09A002). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
(2019 – Present) UWB Localization
Zhao, M., Chang, T., Arun, A., Ayyalasomayajula, R., Zhang, C., & Bharadia, D. (Under major revision). ULoc: Low-Power, Scalable and cm-Accurate UWB-Tag Localization and Tracking for Indoor Applications. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 3, Article 140 (September 2021), https://doi.org/10.1145/3478124
Class Projects


(2020) Pinball Machine — Arcade pinball machine game made real GitHub




(2018) Tubular Robot (Displayed in front of UCSD ECE Student Affairs office) GitHub
(2017) EMG(Electromyography) Bluetooth Game Controller



(2016) Line Following Robot
(2016) Audio Amplifier from scratch
Hackathon / Competition Projects
FacialRecognitionDoorbell — Display name of registered guests when they ring the bell (24 hours at Hard Hack 2017) GitHub
SmartHomeSecurity — Unlock any doors with your authorized face (24 hours at Hard Hack 2018) GitHub
Webroot Snake Game AI — An AI that automatically plays snake game strategically competing with 3 other opponents (10 hours at Webroot Hack 2018, 15th out of 212) Demo, GitHub
TrustMe — Make promises with people real, using DocuSign (36 hours at SD Hacks 2018) Devpost, GitHub
TrustCart — Voice-controlled smart shopping cart to help finding any grocery (24 hours at Hard Hack 2019) Devpost, GitHub
SafeRoute — Find the safest way to get around LA at night, backed by LA crime data (36 hours at LA Hacks 2019, Honorable Mention: Site 101 Big Data Award) Devpost, GitHub
EasyStroll — Smart walker to help Parkson’s patients walking, and their caretakers to track them (3 months at UCSD ECE Design Competition 2019) GitHub
BullyGuard — A bot that utilizes machine learning to detect cyberbullying (36 hours at SD Hacks 2019, Best Use of AWS AI/ML Services 1st) Devpost, GitHub
Individual Self-funded Projects



FightMem — A smart, customized Ebbinghaus Quizzing / Flash Cards App built with PyQt5 (Github)