Liam Chalk

Backtesting for Trading Strategies Python

Created a platform for users to test Python and C++ algorithmic trading strategies against historical data

Hosted on AWS with Django fullstack and Python backend

CORE-V Wally Contributor

Wrote C and assembly language coverage tests for a RISC-V 5-stage pipelined processor written in SystemVerilog

Focused on PMPCFG and PMPADDR to improve coverage for the Privilege, IFU, and LSU units

Computer Vision 3D Object Reconstruction

Created 3D reconstructed models in Python using object masking, SIFT keypoint detection, and point clouds

Applications for computer aided design and 3D printing

Coronavirus Mutation Tracking

Tracking coronavirus mutations using closest neighbor matching and viral clades

Website for biotechnology lab experiments

Connect Four Bot

Wrote Python code for human vs human or human vs computer Connect Four

Built a bot to analyze positions, score all possible moves, and play optimally

Pollution State Estimation Tracking Research

Designing a particle filter to track PM2.5 air pollution using a car-mounted sensor

Team of three students coding in Python and visualizing pollution movement

E84 Analog LED Display for Music Frequency

Built a circuit display for a speaker system

Used analog low, band, and high pass filtering

Fiberglass Rocket with Advanced Avionics

Flight data measured with thermistors, a GPS, an accelerometer, a magnetometer, and a gyroscope. The rocket was designed to collect altitude, acceleration, velocity, temperature, and rotation during the flight.

Constructed from a Madcow 54mm Adventurer body and used a custom internal avionics bay. The rocket uses a Featherweight Raven 3 as the main flight computer, an Eggtimer Quark as the back-up flight computer, and the Teensy Data Logger to save sensor data on an SD card. Four flights flown with J425, J453, and J530 motors.

Team of four students building hardware, flight electronics, and analyzing flight data.

High Powered Experimental Rockets

Studied flight dynamics and rockety concepts

Built and launched an L1 rocket for Tripoli certification, currently building an L2 rocket

Underwater Robot

E80 Project using GPS, thermistors, microphones, pressure sensor, and motor PID control

Worked in a team of four students to design, build, and test a robot for underwater audio detection and tracking

Sorting Type Spacing

Team of four students designed a sorting machine in SolidWorks and tested using motion analysis simulation

Final product fabricated from steel using waterjet cutting