Ruby Werman

Teacher's Pet

Teacher's Pet is an open-source web application that allows teachers to do track student engagement during Zoom calls. Students run the app alongside their Zoom class, collecting information about whether they’re looking at the screen and their emotions. The teacher can then use this data to measure engagement and general feedback, such as how many kids showed confusion or happiness throughout class. I worked with a small team to build this project for the MLH Fellowship's Opening Hackathon. Teacher's Pet uses a variety of open-source technologies including GazeTracking, OpenCV, Keras, and Flask.

Equity

Equity is a chrome extension for Amazon.com that provides ethical scores for products. The scores come from The Ethical Consumer, an independent, not-for-profit, co-operative, based in the United Kingdom. I worked on Equity with a small group for CalHacks 6.0. Built with Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Beautiful-soup, Json

Instagram Filters

I've created a variety of Instagram filters, including games, makeup/beauty, and promotional content. I work with influencers and universities to make custom filters for their pages, as well as feature filters on my personal account, @rubywerm. I use Spark AR Studio, Adobe Photoshop, and Illustrator.

61B: The Video Game

I worked with a partner to create a roguelike video game in Java with a psuedo-random map generator and fun interface. We developed the game from scratch and even added in some easter eggs!

NumPy Dupe

I implemented a subset of the NumPy module using optimization techniques and the Python-C interface. My version was 60 times faster than the naive implementation for matrix operations. Built with C, Python, OpenMP, Intel AVX Intrinsics

Fellow Crossing

I worked on Fellow Crossing with as small group as part of the Major League Hacking Fellowship's Halfway Hackathon. We came in first place in the Community Building category!

Fellow Crossing is a video game that encourages socialization between coworkers. It includes a spacious map with a server-wide chatbox feature, a coffee room with voice calling features, a music room with synchronized background music, and a personal office space with customizable furniture. These features were developed with the goal of encouraging small talk and mingling amongst fellows during their break times.

The game was fundamentally built using the Godot game engine and Gd scripts. The server-side SQL database and game host is through AWS, while the client-side game is published on itch io. Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator were used to create graphics for the game, and Python scripts were written for the voice chat and music room features.

The game is published here as downloadable executables.

Movie Genre Classifier

I used k-nearest neighbors to build a classifier that predicts a movie's genre using the frequency of words in its screenplay with 80% accuracy. Built with Python and Jupyter Notebook.

61CPU

I built a pipelined CPU from scratch in Logism. This included wiring up an arithmetic logic unit, a register file, a control logic unit, an immediate generator, and branch comparator. I then wrote and ran RISC-V code (an open standard instruction set architecture) on my CPU, fun stuff.

Misc. Design

During my senior year of high school I decided to teach myself Adobe Photoshop by designing stickers. My designs grew in popularity, and I turned my hobby into a small business. I've sold over 2,500 stickers, apparel, and wall art. Now, I graphic design for a variety of clubs on campus and take custom orders.