Zak's Projects

EEG-based Emotion Recognition in Music: A research project I conducted in high school alongside a professor at a local university, where I wrote Python code to train a SVM-based machine learning model to predict someone's emotional response to music. I also created a demonstration application where an EEG headset could be connected, and it would predict the emotional response of the wearer.The working paper can be found here!

SSMIF Fall 2022 Coding Challenge: In Fall 2022, I applied to the Stevens Student Managed Investment Fund (SSMIF). As the second round of the application, I had to solve a Python coding challenge. The first question I solved had me calculate various metrics (like Volatility, Sharpe Ratio) and do statistical tests on Coke and Tesla's stocks based on 2021 data, and for the second challenge I did a stepwise linear regression, as well as a Bayesian Ridge regression on polynomial transformed features for a given dataset.

My New Tab Website: A website I created that I use as my browser's new tab page using simple HTML, CSS and Javascript. It features links on the side to sites I visit frequently, a clock on the top that I made using Javascript, my "regular" schedule for the day on the right that I made change days using Javascript, and a randomized inspirational quote in the middle. You can take a look at it live here!

RedditScraping: A small Python program with a GUI I made to use Reddit's API to collect memes that matched a given search, and display those memes in a viewer.

My Projects