David C Thames
ABOUT ME
I am a CS Student at Virginia Tech with interests in human-computer-interaction, machine learning, virtual reality, and entrepreneurship. This summer I will be interning at Amazon. I currently am a researcher in the Crowd Lab at Virginia Tech, where I work on an application combining AI and crowd-sourcing for facial recognition. I also conduct undergraduate research at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology on Virtual Reality interactions. I was a Software Developer Intern at the MITRE Corporation in the Agile Engineering and Innovation Department for two years. In addition, I founded a web design company, DesigN, and a website to teach high school students math through interactive and engaging games, Math-IO.com. I conducted research in conjunction with ODU and MITRE on mobile web archiving, writing a research paper on my findings as a research project. I also work on many of my own projects and compete in hackathons and other competitions with topics ranging from developing prototyping, hacking, algorithms, web design, app development, and more.
MY WORK
Amazon AWS Intern
interned on the AWS Glue Team as a software development engineer (SDE).
Internship At MITRE Corperation
I am software development intern in the Agile Engineering and Innovation department at MITRE Corporation. I have been able to work across many technologies, including cyber security, fail-safe networking, web development, and evolving standards of interactive EPubs, on both research and prototype development for government sponsors. I was awarded a spark award for my "dedication to learning and competitive spirit."
Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech
As an undergraduate researcher in the crowd intelligence lab at Virginia Tech, I worked on using crowd sourcing and artificial intelligence to identify civil war portraits as part of the Civil War Photo Sleuth project.
Conduct VR
Using natural motion recognition through virtual reality (Oculus Rift or HTC Vive) users are able to conduct a musical concert through a song. Presented at the Virginia Tech Science Festival and in progress research with the help of the Virginia Tech Institute for Creativity Arts and Technology.
Exercise Experience
Founded a company developing innovative VR exercise equipment, specifically a stationary VR bike.
Mobile Mink – Web Service
Developed as part of my Governor's School for Science and Technology Research Project with my Mentor Justin Brunelle at MITRE Corporation. - Web Service to provide aggregated memento data sorted from oldest to newest for a given URI-R. Using the Memento API, we retrieve a list of Time- Maps for a URI-R (e.g., http://www.google.com/). We request each TimeMap individually, compiling the URI-Ms from the TimeMaps, sorting the mementos by memento datetime from newest to oldest, and returning the entire set of known URI-Ms in a newly aggregated TimeMap to the requesting client.
Website: Senior Help Specialists
Designed and developed a website for Senior Health Specialists.
Website: Spritsail Enterprises
Designed and developed a website for Spritsail Enterprises. Currently, work in progress.
Social Stocks
Social Stocks is a web API and web app created for VTHacks which helps to correlate social media data (frequency of certain tweets) to stock market data. It won best use of MicroStrategy and Best Github Developer App.
Minimalism App
Created for VTHacks, Minimalism Apps aims to help people focus on their life by removing distractions of material items. The app won the SQLServe award from SQL Sentry. - Removing the distractions and clutter from your life can help you focus on the things that matter, but we have found it can be difficult to keep pushing to maintain this goal. Our app will allow you to compete with friends and make removing clutter as simple and intuitive as possible. Challenge your friends and family to get rid of items not adding value to your life and play the 30-day minimalism game. Take pictures of items you are giving up and using google cloud vision, our app will recognize the items in your photo (and allow you to edit these predictions) and even suggest charities to donate to based on the type of items.
VR News
Data visualization of news through VR. Created for Hoya Hacks.
Team 122 | NASA Knights Website
We are FIRST Robotics Competition team 122. Our team’s motto is “Inspire at all costs.” Team 122 has not sustained itself for the past 20 years to receive glory or fame but rather to continue helping the FIRST community grow and inspire young people all over the world. Webpage: DavidCThames.com
Math I/O
We are a small, but quickly expanding, group of programmers, designers, and mathematicians that develop fun, educational games. These games give students a deeper understanding of topics by visualizing them through the games’ graphics and interactive elements.
Real Person for President
Hugh Hoffman: A Real Person for a Real America DISCLAIMER: FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY. This is a purely satirical presidential campaign website made for an AP Government school project. The views represented in this page in no way represent those of the creators.
GCC Project 2016
This mock website was created at the Great Computer Challenge at Old Dominion University in 2016 under a time limit. It won 2nd place in the web design category.
A.I. Apparel
Using a database of the user’s clothing, A.I. Apparel finds the best clothes for the day through machine-learning based on factors like weather & occasion for the day (with other factors potentially being added in the future)
GCC Project 2015
This mock website was created at the Great Computer Challenge at Old Dominion University under a time limit. It won 3rd place in the web design category.
Demon Quest
Demon Quest is a medieval, RPG, Story based game created as an entry for the Technology Student Association competition in the game development category.
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Autonomous [w]Riting Machine (ARM)
Developed for BitCamp, two teammates and I developed a robotic arm which could teach itself the incremental units needed to type when given an undirected graph of the key layout of a keyboard and reading its own typing data from the computer. This project won “Best Rookie Hack” for the hackathon.
Material Editor
Coming soon...
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