Portfolio

Cool Projects

• Plant Health Monitoring System (Capstone): Built a microcontroller-based system using sensor input and unsupervised learning to detect early plant stress. GitHub, Presentation
• FPGA-Based Platform Game Controller (Final Project): Developed a retro-inspired platformer using Verilog on the Nexys 4 FPGA board. GitHub
• Flick Pick Chrome Extension (Hackathon): Created a Chrome extension that applies collaborative filtering to generate personalized movie recommendations. GitHub
• Raspberry Pi-based k-means for music genre classification (Final Project): Developed a Raspberry Pi-based k-means classification model utilizing volume sensor data to classify music genres and generate song recommendations. GitHub

Outreach Presentations

• Cabrera, A.*, Lopez, A.* (2024). “Bridging Cultures, Building Breakthroughs: AI Ethics.” Invited to discuss ethics in generative AI and Latinx representation at the University of California, Riverside’s SHPEtinas conference, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, View Presentation, Featured Post
• Cabrera, A.*, Dove, C.*, Del Pesce, V.* (2024). “Black College Success STEAM Closing Program Generative AI Workshop.” Led an introductory workshop on generative AI and AI ethics at the University of Southern California’s Black College Success STEAM Closing Program, View Presentation

* Indicates equal contribution.