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Hi, I'm Jai.

Computer Science graduate (Honours) from Dalhousie University, now building AI, XR, and mobile products — with 8 accepted research papers along the way. Off the keyboard: roller hockey, tennis, and competitive debating.

Open to opportunities across Canada

8Peer-reviewed publications

10+Projects shipped

1200+Students led

2×Hackathon winner

8Peer-reviewed publications

10+Projects shipped

1200+Students led

2×Hackathon winner

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◆CS Society President◆Research Assistant @ Dalhousie◆10+ Projects Shipped◆2 Hackathon Wins◆8 Peer-Reviewed Publications◆Accepted to IEEE ISMAR 2026◆CS Honours Graduate 2026◆Halifax, NS◆Open to Work◆CS Society President◆Research Assistant @ Dalhousie◆10+ Projects Shipped◆2 Hackathon Wins◆8 Peer-Reviewed Publications◆Accepted to IEEE ISMAR 2026◆CS Honours Graduate 2026◆Halifax, NS◆Open to Work

Selected work

Projects I've shipped

A mix of research, hackathon, and side projects — touching AI, mobile, VR, and HCI.

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~/grid-sailing-experiment-platform.tsxFlagship

Featured project

Grid-Sailing Experiment Platform

A Python/Pygame desktop experiment management system built as lead developer for a Dalhousie Faculty of Health cognitive research study.

6 experimental groups with researcher and participant login, plus session block logic
SQLite data layer tracking reaction time, accuracy, score, and movement time
In-app analytics viewer with drill-down charts and CSV export

PythonPygameSQLiteGitHub Actions

~/good-neighbour.tsxLive App

Good Neighbour

A community-connection app live on the App Store and Google Play — inherited from another developer, now under my ownership.

Extended the Stripe subscription billing system including payment gating middleware, webhook handler, and subscription lifecycle sync
Maintain the AWS-hosted production backend serving 1,300+ users across 8 facilitator communities in Canada
Took over 3 repos and a live deployment, leading a small team under a non-technical founder

React NativeExpoNode.jsAWSStripePrismaFirebase

~/argumentmapper.tsxIEEE ISMAR '26

ArgumentMapper

A mixed-reality system where a generative AI agent turns any topic into an interactive spatial argument graph you can walk through.

LLM parses a user topic and generates a typed argument graph, rendered as spatial content in Meta Quest 3
Node expansion re-invokes the agent in context, enabling dynamic AI-driven content growth
Published at the IEEE ISMAR XRAG '26 workshop

Unity 6C#Meta Quest 3Llama 3.3 70BGroq APIOpenXR

~/grid-sailing-experiment-platform.tsxFlagship

Featured project

Grid-Sailing Experiment Platform

A Python/Pygame desktop experiment management system built as lead developer for a Dalhousie Faculty of Health cognitive research study.

6 experimental groups with researcher and participant login, plus session block logic
SQLite data layer tracking reaction time, accuracy, score, and movement time
In-app analytics viewer with drill-down charts and CSV export

PythonPygameSQLiteGitHub Actions

~/good-neighbour.tsxLive App

Good Neighbour

A community-connection app live on the App Store and Google Play — inherited from another developer, now under my ownership.

Extended the Stripe subscription billing system including payment gating middleware, webhook handler, and subscription lifecycle sync
Maintain the AWS-hosted production backend serving 1,300+ users across 8 facilitator communities in Canada
Took over 3 repos and a live deployment, leading a small team under a non-technical founder

React NativeExpoNode.jsAWSStripePrismaFirebase

~/argumentmapper.tsxIEEE ISMAR '26

ArgumentMapper

A mixed-reality system where a generative AI agent turns any topic into an interactive spatial argument graph you can walk through.

LLM parses a user topic and generates a typed argument graph, rendered as spatial content in Meta Quest 3
Node expansion re-invokes the agent in context, enabling dynamic AI-driven content growth
Published at the IEEE ISMAR XRAG '26 workshop

Unity 6C#Meta Quest 3Llama 3.3 70BGroq APIOpenXR

Where I've contributed

Experience

Roles that have shaped how I work — research, leadership, support, and student engagement.

Research

Lead Developer

Grid-Sailing Project, Faculty of Health

2026 — Present

Dalhousie University

Built a Python/Pygame desktop experiment management system as lead developer for a Faculty of Health cognitive research study — 6 experimental groups with researcher and participant login, session block logic, SQLite data layer tracking reaction time and accuracy, in-app analytics viewer with drill-down charts, and CSV export.

PythonPygameSQLite

Product

Lead Developer

Good Neighbour App

2026 — Present

Took over a community-connection app live on the App Store and Google Play, inheriting 3 repos and a production deployment. Extended the Stripe subscription billing system (payment gating middleware, webhook handler, subscription lifecycle sync) and maintained the AWS-hosted production backend serving 1,300+ users across 8 facilitator communities in Canada.

AWSStripePrismaFirebaseReact Native

Research

Research Assistant

BeHCI Lab

2025 — Present

Dalhousie University

Building EmoScape VR, Care Companion, ArgumentMapper, EarCoach, Step Inside the Match, and TriSelect — privacy-first, AI-driven systems spanning mobile, VR, and mixed reality, with work accepted at IEEE ISMAR 2026 and ICMI 2026.

UnityFlutterFastAPIOllamaMeta Quest 3

Leadership

President, CS Society

Dalhousie University

2025 — Apr 2026

Leading Dalhousie's largest faculty society — 1200+ Computer Science students. Organized a 300+ guest Snowball Awards Gala, hackathons, and ski trips; managed sponsorships and the executive team.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

Software Engineering, Intro Programming & Theory of CS

2025 — Apr 2026

Dalhousie University

Supervising 8+ Agile teams shipping Firebase-backed Android apps, running weekly labs for 60+ intro programming students, and marking 150+ formal-proof submissions — across three concurrent courses.

Support

Technical Analyst (ITS)

Dalhousie University

Sep 2023 — Apr 2026

Resolved 500+ IT and security incidents for a 20,000+ user base using ServiceNow and CrowdStrike Falcon EDR, maintaining compliance with NIST 800 series and ISO 27001 standards. Integrated Splunk SIEM for log analysis and threat detection, and implemented Azure AD SSO and MFA, reducing unauthorized access risk across university accounts.

CrowdStrikeSplunkServiceNowAzure ADNIST 800ISO 27001

Research

Lead Developer

Grid-Sailing Project, Faculty of Health

2026 — Present

Dalhousie University

PythonPygameSQLite

Product

Lead Developer

Good Neighbour App

2026 — Present

AWSStripePrismaFirebaseReact Native

Research

Research Assistant

BeHCI Lab

2025 — Present

Dalhousie University

UnityFlutterFastAPIOllamaMeta Quest 3

Leadership

President, CS Society

Dalhousie University

2025 — Apr 2026

Leading Dalhousie's largest faculty society — 1200+ Computer Science students. Organized a 300+ guest Snowball Awards Gala, hackathons, and ski trips; managed sponsorships and the executive team.

Research output

Publications & talks

Peer-reviewed work spanning HCI, AI-assisted programming education, and VR interaction — from journal chapters to conference proceedings.

Accepted2026

Step Inside the Match: Embodied Spatial Football Analytics in Mixed Reality

IEEE ISMAR 2026 Posters, Bari, Italy

Accepted2026

TriSelect: Distance Adaptive Multimodal Object Selection in VR Using Eye Gaze, Hand Gesture, and Voice

ICMI 2026, ACM

Accepted2026

ArgumentMapper: Spatial Contracts for Agent-Generated Argument Exploration in Mixed Reality

XRAG '26, IEEE ISMAR 2026 workshop

Accepted2026

EarCoach: AI-Mediated Spoken Scaffolding for Attention-Aware Heads-Up Programming Support

AHIMR '26, IEEE ISMAR 2026 workshop

Accepted2026

ProxiSense: Proximity-Driven Display Adaptation via Low-Cost 2D LiDAR

ACM SUI 2026 Posters, Bari, Italy

What I work with

Skills & tooling

A focused toolkit I reach for across software, research, and design — chosen because they ship.

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonJavaCC#SwiftSQLReactReact NativeNext.jsNode.jsExpressGraphQLUnityPygameExpoPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBSupabaseRedisFirebaseAWSGCPVercelNetlifyPrismaStripeEASOllamaWhisperRAGDBSCANGroq APILlama 3.3Prompt Engineeringscikit-learnpandasNumPyComputer VisionNLPUnityMeta Quest 3OpenXRXR Interaction ToolkitARWebXRArduinoRaspberry Pi 4CrowdStrike Falcon EDRSplunk SIEMServiceNowAzure ADNIST 800ISO 27001GitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsCI/CDJUnitEspressoTypeScriptJavaScriptPythonJavaCC#SwiftSQLReactReact NativeNext.jsNode.jsExpressGraphQLUnityPygameExpoPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBSupabaseRedisFirebaseAWSGCPVercelNetlifyPrismaStripeEASOllamaWhisperRAGDBSCANGroq APILlama 3.3Prompt Engineeringscikit-learnpandasNumPyComputer VisionNLPUnityMeta Quest 3OpenXRXR Interaction ToolkitARWebXRArduinoRaspberry Pi 4CrowdStrike Falcon EDRSplunk SIEMServiceNowAzure ADNIST 800ISO 27001GitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsCI/CDJUnitEspresso

Languages & Frameworks

Building software across web, mobile, and interactive systems with a strong foundation in programming and architecture.

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonJavaCC#SwiftSQLReactReact NativeNext.jsNode.jsExpressGraphQLUnityPygameExpo

Data & Cloud

Modeling, storing, and shipping data — from relational schemas to production cloud deployments.

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBSupabaseRedisFirebaseAWSGCPVercelNetlifyPrismaStripeEAS

AI & Research

Applying language models, retrieval, and classical ML to systems that get evaluated with real users.

OllamaWhisperRAGDBSCANGroq APILlama 3.3Prompt Engineeringscikit-learnpandasNumPyComputer VisionNLP

XR & Hardware

Building spatial interfaces and sensor-driven systems for headsets and embedded hardware.

UnityMeta Quest 3OpenXRXR Interaction ToolkitARWebXRArduinoRaspberry Pi 4

Security & DevOps

Keeping systems secure, observable, and continuously shipping — with compliance standards in mind.

CrowdStrike Falcon EDRSplunk SIEMServiceNowAzure ADNIST 800ISO 27001GitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsCI/CDJUnitEspresso