Santa Clara, CA 95050 • (408) 335 8370 • cmcruse15@gmail.com
Education
Santa Clara High School graduate (4.0+ GPA)
Student at De Anza College (3.76 GPA as of transfer date)
Current Junior at UC Santa Cruz
Skills
Technical Skills
Relevant Courses
Experience
A neurotech project I developed as a part of a team. I worked on the software part of a hardware-software EEG focus tracker which implemented several ground-breaking signal analysis AI papers. The project isn't packaged yet, but is fully functional. This project is ongoing taken over by students at De Anza College
Highlighted as a section in De Anza and Foothill newspapers
With a team of 4, I helped develop NeuralNurse, a realtime face and object recognition device that's intended to help patients with dementia recognize faces and give context to who the face is associated with. The hardware includes a head mounted webcam, and rPI with a power supply that slips into the user's pocket. Considering we designed a fully functioning hardware device and software backend in just 9 hours, the project was majorly successful among judges and won 2nd place.
A platform which allows enterprises to share their research with peers and filter new papers by whichever subjects interest them or affect their startups or companies. Catchup! uses multiple AI agents in its backend to help the user tailor their own experience. https://trycatchup.vercel.app/ Prod is still in development.
Winner of the Groq and MultiOn awards at the Agents that Work 2.0 hackathon at CloudFlare.
Achievements
2nd place hackathon award winner at Berkeley Hackathon (NeuralNurse)
Hardware track hackathon award winner at SF Hacks 2024 (CleanMars)
Hackathon award winner at CloudFlare Hacks (Catchup)
Professor's Recommendation (Merit) : Data Structures and Algorithms
Neurotech project highlight and college sponsor at Foothill and De Anza College