Projects

This website is a place for me to test out all things web development. I noticed there were very few courses at Laurier that taught students about web development in languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript so I began taking the Odin Project’s crash course for web development to help me learn. I first became interested in web development after the Research2Slides project below where one of my classmates suggested we present our final work in our software engineering class in the form of a web application. After exploring web development in my free time, I got this domain to showcase what I’ve learned and to continue learning through various online resources outside of school.

The Research2Slides web application project has been one of the most enjoyable projects I’ve work on thus far. During my second year at Laurier I worked on this project for a large portion of my grade in CP317 (Software Engineering) alongside three of my classmates. This project taught us all how to work collaboratively and how to go beyond our classroom learning in an effort to solve the problem at hand. We were given two very broad project ideas as a starting point but really made this one our own. The project’s goal was to be able to convert research papers into neatly summarized slideshows ready for presentation and we did just that. I worked mainly on the backend of this project creating classes in Java to structure the project and make sure all of the many parts worked together seamlessly. We learned to used text and image stripping libraries to convert PDFs to usable formats, followed by a lot of text manipulation before we were ready to send it to a LLM to summarize. After the text was summarized, I worked to automate the process of creating and designing the PowerPoints all within a Java program as well. Before this project we all had extremely limited exposure to working with AI and web development. The end product was something we were all very proud of that could be used by students, researchers, and professors to easily convert their work into a presentable format in the future. While not currently hosted on a server feel free to send me any questions you may have and explore the repo on my GitHub.

As a large portion of my grade in CP420 (Applied Cryptography) Fall 2024 term I completed a research paper alongside one of my classmates. We could choose any cryptography related topic to conduct a systematic literature review on; we chose to explore the applications of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) in vehicle security. After learning about encryption standards like DES and AES in class we wondered what new standards could be the future of security and ECC definitely fits the bill. We reviewed as much research as possible that discussed different applications of ECC in vehicles and VANETs as technology in vehicles continues to expand rapidly. I really enjoyed this project and we are in the process of getting our literature review published in the new year. I would also love to participate in more research both in my classes and outside of class related to cryptography or LLMs. Feel free to give the paper a quick skim or read by clicking the image to the right.