About

Hi there! Welcome in. I’m Sam — a data/quantitative science student from Emory (class of ’26), living in Atlanta.

My work so far has lived where machine learning meets things people can actually use: NLP pipelines with transformer models, prediction models with carefully engineered features, and the full-stack apps that put them on a screen. The projects shelf has the highlights — including a document-analysis dashboard live on Vercel — and the blog is where I write up what I’m learning along the way.

This site is part notebook, part workshop. The arcade holds the experiments that exist mostly because they were fun to build — try the Hunger Games simulator with your own friends as tributes.

When the laptop is closed, I’m usually somewhere in the photos below — on a volleyball court (eight years of it, plus a stint as club president and volunteer coach), behind a camera (once for Emory’s communications team, now mostly for the donkeys), trying my hand at ceramics, or reading (for one of my book clubs).

Looking for the formal version? Here’s my resume — or just say hi.

Sam sitting on a rock in front of a barn, smiling — hi, I'm Sam

Beyond the keyboard

A few frames from the parts of life that don’t compile.

Sam smiling while petting a donkey inside the barn — quality control at the barn

Six graduates in gowns posed on marble steps — graduation day at Emory

Friends in a small motorboat under a railroad bridge — the trusty vessel

A handmade ceramic vase covered in octopus tentacles — a ceramics detour

Two mountain goats on a rocky slope near the snow line — hiking company

A fluffy gray cat sitting in the grass — senior barn cat

Two people flexing and laughing in front of the barn — farm crew

Two people sitting in front of a glowing aquarium tank — field trip