Xander Carruth

I am developing a mixed iOS and VR app which will provide a social education hub for art, philosophy, and technology. My aim with this app is to create more fulfilling and interactive social experiences.

My second time at BioMojo, during which I used Natural Language Processing to create an intent classifier for biomedical conversation using state-of-the-art models and techniques. I also was in charge of mentoring another intern assigned to this project.

While researching at this subgroup of the Center for Educational Informatics, I created the data collection mechanisms deployed to universities across the US for the creation of a new adaptive learning textbook. I also developed an intuitive method of extracting and displaying the data collected in previous experiments.

Through this internship, I conducted a study for the Department of Defense into the feasibility of using remote assist software with the Microsoft Hololens 2 to carry out remote surgical operations. I also implemented lemmatization, sentiment analysis, and intent recognition models on biomedical dialogue.

While researching at this lab under the NCSU design college, I practiced the design methodology of fast iteration on VR-related projects. I namely worked on the VR Hoverboard project to help create field trips in VR and the Pop'n'Play project to provide fun experiences in VR for kids.