Hello, I'm Francisco.

I built a real-time eye-tracking system that uses an ordinary webcam to translate gaze direction into movement commands. The project grew from a personal interest in preserving independence for people whose mobility is limited.

• →Classified six eye states: left, right, up, down, center, and closed
• →Combined OpenCV, facial landmarks, image processing, and blink-aware controls
• →Tested the interface with a JetBot as a small-scale mobility platform
• →Earned 3rd Place in the undergraduate ACM Student Research Competition at Tapia 2025

I co-built a rideshare coordination platform for Pomona students traveling to and from regional airports. Its matching system balances overlapping travel windows, airport and terminal constraints, group size, and luggage capacity.

• →Reached 900+ unique student users traveling to and from regional airports
• →Built a Python matching engine that turns time windows, destinations, terminals, group size, and baggage limits into automated ride assignments
• →Built operations tooling in Next.js, React, and TypeScript with role-based access and explainable failure handling
• →Generated 1,600+ matches at roughly an 88% match rate, processing 500+ submissions in a single Spring Break cycle

At Pomona's ARCS Lab, I helped create dynamic simulation environments for low-cost robot research. I connected Unreal Engine, Python, and machine-learning workflows to generate data, control simulations, and test indoor navigation models.

• →Built environments and control tools in Unreal Engine 5 and Blender
• →Created real-time communication between Unreal Engine and Python using OSC
• →Improved an image-classification model from 22% to 61.2% through iterative experiments
• →Contributed to research presented at the 2023 and 2024 Southern California Robotics Symposiums