Public property tax data is often presented in raw formats, making it difficult for the average user to interpret. Our client initially developed a product that provided access to Kern County property tax information only. Our project enhances accessibility by developing ParcelSearch.com, a platform that centralizes property tax data. With this rebranded system, we have expanded coverage to include Kern, Monterey, and Tulare Counties, with plans for further expansion. Users can create accounts and choose from various subscription plans to conduct property searches using multiple search criteria: owner name, parcel number, and legal descriptions. With the development of a user-friendly interface and expanded search functionalities, the platform caters to realtors, investors, and homeowners seeking property insights. This system was built using modern web technologies, including Vue.js for the frontend, Java and Spring Boot for the backend, and PostgreSQL for database management, to name a few. Future plans include expanding nationwide to create an all-encompassing and user-friendly property data platform.

Longspeeds is an innovative e-commerce platform designed to streamline the buying and selling of auto parts, providing a seamless experience for both individual customers and automotive businesses. The platform offers a comprehensive catalog of high-quality parts for a wide range of vehicles, from everyday cars to performance and specialty models. Leveraging modern web technologies such as Next.js, Longspeeds ensures fast performance, responsive design, and secure transactions. Key features include advanced search and filtering, user-friendly inventory management, real-time order tracking, and support for both retail and wholesale transactions. With a focus on reliability, affordability, and user satisfaction, Longspeeds aims to become a trusted destination for auto enthusiasts and mechanics alike.

Academic advising presents significant challenges in both time management and complexity. Currently, students navigate between two advising options: generic online resources and personalized consultations with professors and advisors. While personalized advisement offers tailored advice, professors cannot be expected to meet with every undergraduate in their major, especially as enrollment grows, and academic advisors may lack specialized knowledge required for some majors. Echelon addresses this gap by creating a middle ground between generic and personalized advising, offering students an effective supplement and saving time for all parties involved. Echelon functions as an intelligent chatbot assistant powered by large language models such as Llama 3 and Mistral. Upon signup, students share their academic records, enabling Echelon to create individualized profiles that consider key factors such as major/minor selection and performance in critical courses. The project is being built using TypeScript and Rust with Svelte and Axum frameworks, respectively. Echelon utilizes PostgreSQL for user account and conversation storage and Qdrant for vector storage and retrieval. Designed with flexibility in mind, Echelon can be deployed at any university, given basic institutional information such as course catalogs and degree requirements.

Cryptococcus is an invasive fungus that causes cryptococcosis, an infection that highly affects immunocompromised people. There are currently a limited number of antifungals available to treat Cryptococcus, and with the increased in antimicrobial resistance, we need different alternatives to treat fungal infections. Our lab has identified proteins involved in the synthesis of eicosanoids, which are lipid signaling molecules involved in regulating the immune response. Moreover, fungi can produce eicosanoids using different enzymes that humans do, opening a line to identify new drug targets using these pathways. Previously, our lab had identified genes upregulated in the presence of the eicosanoid’s precursor, arachidonic acid. Our goal is to use bioinformatics to predict and characterize the protein structure, using AlphaFold2, a machine learning application based on a deep neural network, and using this tool, identify small molecules that will bind to the proteins and help make drug design more efficient.

FWDX BioBlade is a web-based system designed to automate genetic sequence comparison for Fort Worth Diagnostics (FWDX), a company specializing in high-quality diagnostic reagents. FWDX faces a significant challenge: ensuring its reagents remain effective as pathogens mutate over time. Currently, this process is manual, time-intensive, and costly, relying on external bioinformatic consultants to compare existing reagent sequences against national and international genetic databases like NCBI and GISAID.

BioBlade improves this workflow by automating sequence comparisons, detecting mutations or deletions, and generating real-time reports. This automation significantly reduces turnaround time, improves accuracy, and lowers costs, empowering FWDX scientists and regulatory personnel with timely and accurate information. Key features include:
- Automated sequence analysis for efficient reagent validation
- Customizable query intervals for up-to-date comparisons
- A user-friendly reporting dashboard for streamlined decision-making

As artificial intelligence and machine learning continue to evolve, the need for efficient search and retrieval mechanisms for unstructured data has grown exponentially. Traditional relational databases, optimized for structured queries, struggle with the high-dimensional nature of modern AI-generated embeddings. This challenge has led to the rise of vector databases, specialized systems designed to store, index, and retrieve data based on similarity rather than exact matching.

This symposium explores the fundamental concepts of vector databases, their key components—such as vector embeddings, indexing techniques, and similarity search algorithms—and their advantages over traditional databases. We discuss how vector search operates using distance metrics like cosine similarity and Euclidean distance and compare the roles of vector databases and standalone vector indexes.

This project presents an interactive forecasting tool for Influenza-like Illness (ILI) trends using historical CDC data and machine learning models. Built with Python and Streamlit, the app enables users to visualize yearly ILI patterns, compare predictive models, and forecast future cases based on recent trends. Three models — Linear Regression, Random Forest, and XGBoost — were evaluated using Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) and R² Score. Surprisingly, Linear Regression achieved the best performance with an RMSE of 0.106 and R² of 0.960, indicating that simple models can be effective for this type of time-series data. The app also includes features for dynamic forecasting and CSV export, making it a practical tool for public health analysis and planning.

Our client, Trailspur Capital Partners, is a real estate investment company based in Texas. We assist the company by building a database about commercial / industrial real estate to manage the market more easily and better decision-making. The business requires both the Geographic data from the County’s officials and the properties listings with vacancies information. Our goal is to design a database that can handle the aggregate data coming from both sources, which includes arranging and categorizing the properties, coming with several built-in functions namely identifying listings / vacancy changes, before deploying everything to the server. Our frontend, built with Vite and Vue, provides a smooth and interactive user experience while on the backend, we utilize AWS Lambda with Python to automate essential tasks, including downloading official county appraisal data, performing spatial merges using GIS functions, and managing our Supabase database. After successfully aggregating real estate data from both sources into a structured database, which enables easier tracking of property status changes, the platform efficiently processes and visualizes real-time property listings, allowing our client to analyze market trends and make data-driven investment decisions. Our project enhances real estate market intelligence for Trailspur Capital Partners. The system’s automated functions minimize manual workload and improve the accuracy of property tracking, providing a scalable solution for future expansion.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy often relies on patients consistently completing therapeutic homework, regularly assigned by their therapist. A leading cause of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy failure for patients is non-compliance with their assigned therapeutic homework. About 20%-50% of patients fail to complete assignments due to inconvenience, a lack of clear instructions, or forgetting to finish the assignment. MENDmate is an online platform designed to solve this problem by providing a streamlined user experience for homework assignment and completion. MENDmate allows providers to assign homework to their patients and monitor their progress. It also provides patients with the ability to track and complete their homework assignments. Additional features of MENDmate include a learning library that gives patients an opportunity to learn about mental illness and practice coping techniques, a journal that allows patients to record their experiences and daily mood and anxiety assessments. MENDmate also tracks and reports the patient's data trends such as completed assignment, mood level, and anxiety level, which allows both the therapist and the patient to keep track of their progress over time.

Fort Worth PsychWorks, a leading psychiatry office, provides comprehensive neuropsychological and psychological assessments for patients across all age groups. Currently, after administering a variety of cognitive and behavioral tests, psychiatrists must manually input the resulting data into report templates, a process that is both labor-intensive and inefficient. This manual approach can take between 45 minutes to two hours per report, detracting from the time available for direct patient care and reducing the clinic’s overall operational efficiency.
To address this challenge, our senior design project introduces an automated report generation system named the PsychWorks Report Generation System. This software solution empowers psychiatrists to select or customize templates tailored to individual patient needs, add or remove specific tests, and automatically generate detailed report text, tables, and charts based on input scores. By maintaining the flexibility of the existing Excel-based system while significantly reducing the time and effort required for report creation, the PsychReport Automator enhances the user experience for clinic staff, boosts the potential for billable hours, and ultimately supports improved patient outcomes.