• Naval Vessel Classification: Fine-tuned models on 8,908 ship images across five categories. Achieved 92.54% accuracy with Google's Vision Transformer and 90.35% with Microsoft's Swin Transformer using a learning rate of 5e-5.
• Ship Arrival Regression Analysis: Developed predictive models to optimize ship arrival patterns at SaqrPort using AIS data, regression trees, and random forests. Analyzed arrival patterns for 904 vessels to mitigate costly demurrage fees.
• Network Security: Built a DNS spoofing tool capable of hijacking HTTP connections through a three-stage attack: ARP spoofing, DNS response manipulation, and HTTP request interception. Implemented port scanning and ARP spoofing detection in Go.
• Web Security: Designed defenses against seven web attacks, including cookie theft, cross-site request forgery (CSRF), and SQL injection. Implemented CSRF tokens, cookie signing, and input sanitization.
• Quantum Mechanics & Free Will: Explored the intersection of physics and human agency by examining how quantum indeterminacy challenges deterministic models.

Some of my favorite classes at Stanford (in roughly the order I took them):

• MKTG 535 Product Launch: Essential for aspiring entrepreneurs. The class was intense, with lots of cold-calling, but incredibly insightful. Each case discussion had founders or investors from the case come speak with the class. One of the few classes where I felt compelled to take real notes.
• CS 224G Apps With LLMs Inside: A hands-on, project-based class with little admin. Taught by two serial founders who are also Stanford CS PhDs, the course focused on learning the latest tech and practical implementation. I was fortunate to be part of its inaugural cohort.
• CEE 216 Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital: Weekly seminars featuring founders and VCs, including Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Mark Pincus (Zynga), and Eddie Kim (Gusto). A mix of grad students and undergrads made for great conversation.
• POLECON 549 The Business World - Moral & Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature: We basically read a book each week and had deep discussions on them. Scotty McLennan is the only GSB professor who dares to talk about spirituality. I can't speak for every student, but I definitely appreciate him for it.
• APPPHYS 363 Modern Physics & Literature: A hidden gem of a class that is jointly taught by the Physics & English departments. Topics included time, causality, higher dimensions, and quantum ontology. Read works by Rovelli, Bergson, Ken Liu, and Liu Cixin, including The Three-Body Problem series. Physics PhDs in the class helped the rest of us follow along.
• GSBGEN 312 I'm Just a Bil: A notorious GSB class known for being controversial and challenging, taught by Keith Hennessey, former Director of the National Economic Council. It was essentially a legislative simulation. The most demanding class I’ve taken but also the one I learned the most from.
• GSBGEN 346 Freedom, Democracy, and Capitalism: Another one from Keith Hennessey. I think his goal is to reduce the number of morally inept business leaders the GSB produces. No one else challenges us to think as critically about the world as he does.
• STRAMGT 354 Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: A popular GSB class that usually requires a "super round" - using one of your two golden ticket cards for high-demand electives - to enroll. The course was mostly guest lectures and a business plan competition with a team. Being taught by Scott Kupor (author of Secrets of Sand Hill Road, a reason in my decision to attend business school) and Eric Schmidt was a huge privilege. We had many incredible founder and investor guests. It’s one of those classes that made sitting in the classroom feel surreal.