Research

Algorand Blockchain Improvement Research

May 2022 - Dec 2022, Troy, New York

Advisors:
Oshani Seneviratne, Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Tetherless World Constellation
Lirong Xia, Associate professor, Computer Science Department, RPI

Algorand

The world’s most powerful and sustainable blockchain, created by Turing Award winner, Silvio Micali

Determined that the blockchain lacked incentive for participators of host nodes.
Developed an algorithm and proposal to incentivize validators without losing original advantages of the blockchain.

CureQuest

May 2021 — May 2023, Troy, New York

Advisor: Benjamin Chia-Ming Chang, Director of GSAS and Professor, GSAS, RPI

CureQuest

An educational adventure game collaborated with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai about Clinical Translational Therapeutics by Unity (C#).

The project is published in 2021 7th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN).

Leading and cooperating with a team of 5 to design and implement some brand new mechanics and scenes for the game.

• Developed crafting system for brewing new medicines and aromas.
• Created a system to save and load the game using serialized objects and json.
• Designed and programmed a notebook system with expandable storage count.
• Developed a pitch system that utilized the notebook for funding pitch.
• Helped teammates on Unity development and questions, and made suggestions and modifications to level design.