Projects
A renter rights app that helps tenants connect with local non-profits, document their issues, notify their landlord about their compliance obligations, and learn their rights. Selected as "Best of legal apps" on iOS and Android by ProductHunt. View the homepage, the web app. Download the iOS or Android apps.
Through a grant from Microsoft's AI for Earth project, I'm working with a partner to help detect a machine learning algorithm that can detect potentially viral videos in city council meetings. This can help non-profits, especially environmental-focused ones, raise awareness about policy issues and help find clips to raise donations.
NAI Compliance Monitoring Tools
Praised by the FTC staff as "giving NAI teeth", this project automated and expanded various aspects of NAI compliance. This desktop software monitored privacy policies for changes and was able to systematically explore the data collection practices across websites and apps on nearly any wi-fi connected device. View more details here.FitMyCal
FitMyCal connects your Fitbit activity and sleep data with your Google calendar. This lets you visualize your physical history by looking at your Google calendar. Try the FitMyApp app.
Happy Homes
This was the first place winner of Uber's "Hacking the Last Mile" hackathon. relating to the "last mile." The weekend project triangulates affordable rental housing to reduce long commute times to work, home, and family (school, daycare) by cross-correlating rental housing costs, apartment occupancy, transit times, driving congestion, and the distance between home & work. Read about the work and see the code at https://celebratingcities.github.io/.
Finding BitCoin Hackers
As a final project for a class at Stanford, this technique discovered BitCoin hackers. Hackers would send secret codes to each other through codes in the amount of the bitcoint transfer. Using Benford's Law, we found this secret communication network, revealing a number of previously unknown hacker codes. Read the paper titled "The Hacker’s Code: Finding Bitcoin Thieves Through the
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DocuPeace
An advanced document assembly and form app. Allows you to draft professional document templates using custom logic, data, and real-time previews. Allows easy intake of data with options to better standardize the inputs than Google Forms.Glass Walls
This project imports housing data from public sources and connects with the guestbook from RenterPeace to provide transparency to apartments and landlords before tenants rent.
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