Tyler Lynch

Computer Science Student & Athlete @ University of Virginia


Projects

2024

Portfolio Website

February 2024 - Present

Personal Project

Go to Code
  • The website we are on right now!
  • Static webpage written in HTML styled with CSS
  • Trying to follow web dev best practices.

Conway's Corner

February 2024 - May 2024

CS 4640 - Programming Languages for Web Applications

Gif of Conway's Corner Demo. Go to Site
  • Online simulation of Conway's Game of Life using Javascript.
  • Allows users to share and demo their simulations.
  • Front controller design pattern with PHP backend.

2023

F 1/10 Autonomous Racing

August 2023 - December 2023

Tesla Team

  • Secured 2nd place in a time trial race against 8 competing teams by designing and optimizing a Pure Pursuit autonomous racing program for our F 1/10 race car.
  • Implemented Follow the Gap for head-to-head racing.
  • Implemented PID Wall Following in early tests.

2022

A Self Learning System for Emotion Awareness and Adaptation in Humanoid Robots

September 2022

UVA Link Lab, Human-AI Technology Lab

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  • Published at the 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).
  • Conducted a 2-stage user study, achieving a 12% increase in emotion recognition accuracy and an 8.28% improvement in successfully eliciting intended emotions between stages.
  • Developed an adaptive learning system for real-time emotion recognition in humanoid robots.
  • Implemented Convolutional Neural Networks, utilizing ResNet50 and Inception v3, for facial expression analysis.

Studdy Buddy

January 2022 - March 2022

CS 3240 - Advanced Software Development

  • Study-Buddy is a website where students can list which UVA courses they are in and communicate with other students to set up study events.
  • Built using Django framework with a SQLite database.
  • Utilizes Google Calendar and Google Auth APIs.
  • Runs on a Heroku instance and takes advantage of GitHub Actions Continuous Integration.

2019

The Effect of Machine Learning on Website Security

December 2018 - March 2019

Battlefield High School Science Fair

  • Created a program that solved Google Recaptchas using image recognition and machine learning.
  • The project was written in Java and Python utilizing TensorFlow.
  • Won the Computer Science division of the Battlefield High School science fair and placed 3rd at the Prince William County School Regional Fair.