QuickShift.io

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to July 2026

• Published list:

  • Scientific reincarnation

  • Event alarms

  • Celebrating digital health goals

  • Volumetric light

  • Anti-phishing contacts

  • Next-gen gas stove

  • Paid genome surveys

  • E-paper display approach

  • Debt-credit card hybrid

  • Apple TouchID and FaceID

  • Drone swarm gunshot locator

• Compared naked mole rat fibroblasts and human induced pluripotent stem cells against human fibroblasts to try to find genes that prevent aging, since naked mole rats and IPSCs don’t age while human somatic cells do

• Discovered that indeed there are genes that NMR fibroblast cells have more in common with human IPSCs than human fibroblasts

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to April 2026

• Published list:

  • 3D printing organs

  • Transparent car window display

  • Pokemon gamified version of microscope creatures

  • Shared appreciation mortgage

  • AI smart camera triggers

  • iPad shortcut buttons

  • Wearable talking indicator

  • Manual trigger for Tesla top down view

  • Tesla external microphone array

  • Variably inflatable blanket to regulate temperature

  • Live chat highlight feature

  • Enhanced hold assist

  • Cellular environment

• Conducted network analysis to see if there’s a central mechanism that controls aging due to the closely connected network discovered in the previous aging research

• Using the hybrid metric from the previous aging machinery research, found a network split that produced a stand out community for aging genes. However, the community was fairly sparse for aging genes

• Link to Github Repo

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to January 2026

• Published list:

  • Hot-swappable smart glasses battery

  • Smart dimming sunglasses

  • Passthrough perfect vision

  • Power boosting home battery

  • Webapp for managing organizations

  • Fantastic longevity side effect

  • Next-gen scissors

  • ChatGPT inline-branching

  • Bioinformatics as a service

  • Moving costs

  • Aging research standard

  • Aging experiments

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to November 2025

• Published list:

  • Uncovering embryonic repair mechanisms

  • Reddit for scientific research

  • Threaded live chats

  • Centrifugal gravity space station

  • Apple watch touch ID

  • Micro-dosed time off

  • Mobile experience

  • Car experience

  • Dial phone to enable lost mode

  • Programmable cell

  • Security wearable

  • Keyboard for the mute

• Unpublished list

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to September 2025

• Published list:

  • Aiding developing countries

  • Fingerprinting children

  • How consciousness is created

  • High resolution IPSC generation

  • Blocking cellular reprogramming

  • Gmail native burner addresses

  • Hide my phone number

  • Building strong legal institutions

  • Teacher mental health upcertification

• Unpublished list

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to July 2025

• Published list:

  • Sharing email legitimacy

  • Genetically engineered babies

  • Three body problem random number generator

  • Hospital recording lapel pin

  • Recommendation engine diet

  • MR glasses

  • TV as a monitor

  • High school MOOC class

  • 2nd chances for ex-cons

  • Pumped hydro sea wall

  • Caller ID metrics

  • Car train

  • Classroom lecture shift

  • Synthetically aged body double

  • Universal basic income dilemma

  • Service for monitoring pollutants

  • Government efficiency data

• Unpublished list

• Conducted network analysis to see if it’s possible to enrich for central aging related genes from a global aging gene dataset. This was done by taking the global aging gene dataset and seeing where the network paths criss-cross/overlaps between them; the more a gene is criss-crossed the more likely it’s a central gene

• Found closely connected aging network within biogrid network from global aging genes

• Created a hybrid metric with aging gene centrality overlaps and pubmed search results. Many of the genes found at the top are also found in the GenAge dataset (genes identified as related to aging)

• Link to Github Repo

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to May 2025

• Published list:

  • Stock market graphs

  • Pea plant biology kit

  • Hive mind conversations

  • Electromagnetic spaceship docking

  • Police webcam

  • Social media Youtube

  • Walking exoskeleton

  • Github style legislation

  • Stacked FDM printing

  • Vacuum sealing electric motors

  • Roll cage attachment for bicycles

  • Remote autopilot

  • Chrome pinned tabs

  • Cargo ship security

  • Text messaging app routing

  • Social security number security

• Unpublished list

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to March 2025

• Published list:

  • Standard car safety equipment

  • Low age cancers

  • Squarespace or website builder staging

  • Journal Light Kickstarter

  • Chrome’s missing feature

  • Safer vapes

  • Boarding a moving ship

  • Kindle Whisper Sync

  • Open-source government software

  • IPSC transformation efficiency

  • Neural-link telepathy

  • Ultra-secure library computers

• Unpublished list

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to January 2025

• Published list:

  • Theories of aging

  • Wearable sleep timer

  • Lawn care robot

  • Modernizing libraries

  • Emergency call hook ins

  • Dog aging paradox

  • Bed time yoga

  • Metal detector MRI safety

  • Real time online dating

  • Seeing perspectives

  • 3D camera green screens

  • Parachute rotational dampener

  • iPhone FaceID aesthetic

  • Updated soldier glasses

  • Gun perspective

  • Sirutins

• Unpublished list

• Conducted bioinformatics study to see if it’s possible to enrich for aging related genes by seeing which genes show up the most when you take the shortest regulatory path between OSK factors and global aging genes (the same genes found to either up/down regulate across multiple aging cell types)

• Did find enriched intermediary genes but not results that were more enriched than randomly selected target gene controls

• Link to Github Repo

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to December 2024

• Published list:

  • Epigenetically dissimilar organisms

  • Automatically supporting youtube creators

  • Human embedded airtag

  • Bioweapon

  • Child Malnutrition

  • Graphyte Improvement

  • E-cigarette Regulation

  • 3D scanning for optimization

  • Publishing through Github

  • Strategy game innovation

  • Sustainable aviation fuel distribution

• Unpublished list

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to November 2024

• Published list:

  • Drastically different housing model

  • Mortgage policy

  • Mortgage insurance

  • Malaria research

  • Urban design

  • Multi-format communication

  • Google sign-in flaw

  • Conversation organizer

  • Google maps limitation

  • Hold for me website

  • Password protected

  • Civilization AI

  • Enabling the disabled and elderly

  • Climate change responsibility

  • ChatGPT design

  • Government IDs

  • Robotic arm

• Unpublished list

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to September 2024

• Published list:

  • Personal process to innovation

  • Locking desktop apps and webapps

  • Smartphone rear display

  • AR ghost

  • Managing extremism

  • 360 soldier cam

  • Proper posture

  • Practice combat drone

  • Science vs engineering

  • Branches of consciousness

  • Malaria ponchos

  • Security loophole with smartwatches

  • Inflation adjusted wages

  • In conflict but not in combat

  • Life lesson for kids

  • Mining Mars

  • Streamlining Entrepreneurship

• Unpublished list and released previously unpublished ideas:

  • Improving office chairs

  • Greatly improving the design of Siri/Google assistant text messages

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to June 2024

• Published list:

  • CO2 Sequestration and Recycling

  • Rescuing clinical trials through DNA sequencing

  • Temporary apps

  • Apple watch software design

  • Smartphone/Tablet/Laptop mount

  • 3D printed custom eyeglasses

  • Pointing in video calls

  • Corporate citizen profit sharing

  • Ambilight TVs

  • Custom voice assistant actions

  • CO2 alchemy

  • P2P home sales

  • Browser Payments

  • Computer Booths

  • Mail QR codes

  • Trial Adulting student project

  • Tactical endoscope

  • 1Password Security update

  • New type of shirt

  • Solar still

  • Tricorder

  • Electro-permanent magnet

  • Alien robots

  • Acceptance can be better than fighting

  • True age

• Unpublished list and released previously unpublished ideas:

  • Next-gen authentication mechanism

  • Aging theories and experiments

• Developing an assistant that essentially serves a real-time generated powerpoint to your conversation

• Developed an outline function, conceptual auto-correct, and auto google search questions

• Conducted bioinformatics study to see if gene duplication of tumor suppressor genes is a evolutionarily converging feature and can be used to identify important cancer fighting genes previously unknown in the genome

• Found ZNF560 gene which was consistently duplicated in the low cancer group compared to the high cancer group

• Link to Github Repo

• Various ideas I’ve come up with up to February 2024

• Published list:

  • Organ specific chimera

  • Housing musical chairs

  • Corruption bounties

  • Streamlined journalism payments

  • EV charging batteries

  • Direct ground water aquifer recharge

  • Desalination and waste water combination

  • Atomic recycler

  • Infinite capacity battery

  • Personal cooling unit

  • Smartphone improvements

  • Next-gen wheelchair

  • Virtual mailing addresses

  • Concept touchscreen trackpad

  • Sleep guard

  • Apple Health app

  • Smartphone satellite communications

  • Conversations with ear protection

  • Massage robot

  • Better digital payments

  • Translation with beam-forming microphones

  • Unified communications app

  • Digital security review

  • Modular housing

  • Thermoregulating clothes

• Unpublished list and released previously unpublished ideas:

  • Smart chemotherapeutics

  • Research in the how and why of aging

  • Next-gen calculator

• Participated in Kaggle competition that recreated the qualification round from Google’s 2016 annual code competition

• Wrote a scheduler to manage drone operations to deliver products from warehouses

• Scored 101674 with the top score being 114399

• Link to Github Repo | Link to Kaggle Leaderboard (Team name “Jing Luo”)

• Developed a prototype to convert audio into haptic (vibration) feedback for the deaf

• Could feel a person’s voice

• Built with arduino components and python

• Link to Github Repo

• Developed an online web-app based clipboard to easily share information between devices and people

• Designed specifically to streamline the sharing flow using HTML5 clipboard APIs, human-readable URLs, and QR codes

• Built with HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, Node.js, Express, Sequelize, Postgres, Mocha, Chai, Heroku, SendGrid, and Recaptcha

• Link to Github Repo

• Analyzed mock pandemic data to determine a scoring function to correlate specific characteristics about each city/county/state and it’s associated spread of infection providing insight on areas of susceptibility, effectiveness of interventions, and etc

• Contracted to help manage and develop an IOT solution to improve transparency, provide insights, and optimize efficiency for RMS (Rail Management Services) one of America’s largest intermodal shipping companies

• Generally led the execution side of the project

• Assisted with all facets of development: product design, frontend development, and backend development

• Helped hire, vet, and manage contractors while coordinating closely with the project manager

• Developed in collaboration with Gnar.io

• Contributed to development of software as a service to make using computer vision as easy as setting up an email filter

• Assisted with multiple facets of development such as product design, frontend development, backend development, API design, and various product demos

• Product design work included initial conceptualization and collaboration with an external design team

• Frontend development included new feature development, bug fixes, Github issue management, and collaboration with an external development team

• Backend development included new feature development, bug fixes, API design, and collaboration with the internal backend development team

• Product demos covered a wide range such as a counterfeit currency detector, recycling assistant, data fusion demos, a data explorer to comb through various events and camera feeds, and a sophisticated google voice assistant with advanced navigation and querying capabilities

Project: Online Community Web App
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018

• A twitter/reddit hybrid for fun, practice, and learning about building online communities

• Built with HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, Redux, Node.js, Express, Mongoose, Mongodb, and Heroku

• Link to Github Repo

Contract: Robotic Microscope Prototype
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018

• Contracted to create a fully automated fluorescent multi-spectral microscope prototype with sub-micron resolution, a control system (covering XYZ axis motion control, LED brightness and selection, collimator adjustment, polarizer toggle, and polarizer rotation), automated giga-pixel image capture, and a display/control interface

• Managed all planning and engineering from idea to working prototype covering all hardware, electronic, software, and optical aspects

• Helping save the rainforest by improving satellite image classification. Images can be classified as some combination of forest cover, roads, cloudy, habitation, mining, slash and burn, and others

• Implemented a fine-tuned deep convolutional neural network based solution with custom features. The network architecture fed the image data into the pre-trained Xception neural network as the initial layers, and then the network output was combined with image RGB statistics into a final output layer

• Achieved accuracy score of 0.90 with the winning accuracy of 0.93 as reference

• Utilized AWS EC2 GPU instances with customized images to accelerate development

• Used Bash, Python, Scikit-learn, Numpy, Pandas, Tensorflow, and Keras

• Developed companion web app to help understand and fine tune canny edge, hough line, and harris corner detection algorithm settings. Built with HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, Python, Flask, openCV, and Heroku

• Link to Github Repo | Link to Kaggle Leaderboard (Team name “TeamRocket”)

Contract: Purdue Alumni Association Chrome Extension
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017

• Contracted to enable credit card swipe payments for for Purdue Alumni Association to replace hand entered data

• Developed a credit card Chrome extension that enables swipe payments by collecting raw data from a USB connected card swiper, parsing the data, and pasting it into the web form

• Self-contained extension written with HTML, CSS, and vanilla javascript with no outside dependencies, various attack surfaces covered, completely transient handling of credit card information, and requiring minimal permissions

• Developed in collaboration with Gnar.io, which provided the visual design

• Developed a custom journaling application enabling users to easily view and organize their memories

  • Giant Timeline View of your Life

  • Photos, Gifs, Videos, and Video previews

  • Add new entries instantly anywhere

  • Entries don't require a full date

  • Dropbox backup

  • Companion AI

• Enables users to define a journal entry date and time with whatever you know about when it happened (such as "2016 May", "2016 May 23rd", "2016 May 25th 5pm", "before 2016", “after 2016 November”). And it still sorts with whatever available information using a custom recursive sorting algorithm, so if you try to put something somewhere that doesn’t make sense, it stops you from doing that and keeps your entries chronological order consistent

• Includes custom frontend components such as variable component size lazy loader and click to journal entry scrollbar

• Integrated with Dropbox Api along with customized external libraries to provide local syncing and full media support

• Includes a backend companion AI to help you write your journal entries using custom heuristics with a combination of summarization and sentiment analysis to identify areas to inquire about

• Built with HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, Flux, Python, Flask, Google Natural Language API, and Heroku

• Link to Web App | Link to Github Repo | Link to Kickstarter beta intro video

• Developed a low cost (less than $200) handsfree computer interface using an eyetracker and EMG (electrical muscle impulse sensor) combo to contribute to the general wealth of knowledge

• Used python to interconnect an external library that provided a mouse API, the eyetracker SDK, and the arduino that’s connected to the EMG

• Link to Instructable | Link to Github Repo

• Contributed to development of a nanopore-based DNA sequencer that enables long continuous DNA reads vital to analyzing the human genome

• Conducted key research and provided key guidance to enable accomplishment of a product goal (minimum 10X multiplier to sequencing yield via improvements to hardware lifespan) a year ahead of schedule using a combination of system engineering and failure analysis requiring interdisciplinary knowledge and collaboration in chemistry, physics, molecular biology, engineering, and experimental design

• In addition, the increased throughput early in development will potentially save the company millions of dollars in R&D cost over time

• Developed a 95% accurate, robust, scalable, and adjustable signal processing algorithm that identifies and quantifies a key signal pattern on gigabytes of data within minutes using a variety of statistical methods. Used Python, Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn

• Assigned patents: Patent1 Patent2

• Invented a powerful portable smartphone microscope to combine the features and portability of a smartphone with the ability to see into an invisible world

  • Simple versatility with compatibility with nearly any smartphone or tablet with auto-focus+exposure

  • Flexible power with 30X, 170X, or 340X Optical magnification with ~5 micron resolution

  • Ultraportable enough to fit in your pocket, it goes where you go. Runs for hours on two AAA batteries

• Successfully crowdfunded over $30,000 which is among the 95% percentile of campaigns Link to Kickstarter | Link to Indiegogo

• Communicated with press resulting in articles in TechRepublic, Fastcompany, and L'Atelier BNP Paribas along with handling public relations among backers

• Manufactured the microscopes in-house through a combination of advanced technologies such as 3D printing, resin casting, laser-cutting, waterjet cutting, machining, and etc. Optimized and failure analyzed the manufacturing process

• Designed a nature-inspired modular repositionable succulent wall planter

• Link to STL file

• Assisting with the construction of a whole-cell model of E. coli with applications in synthetic biology

• Developing the code in MatLab to integrate genome-scale models of the transcription regulation and metabolism of E. coli

• Providing direction for the representation of the biology within our model, what parameters to test, translating and mapping interactions into databases, and identifying and addressing various bugs.

• Worked as part of a team with the advisor and one other intern, whom I helped by providing additional explanation and guidance

• Wrote the transcription regulation and metabolism sections of the manuscript

• Paper has been cited over 100 times

• Link to Paper: An integrative, multi-scale, genome-wide model reveals the phenotypic landscape of Escherichia coli. EMBO Molecular Systems Biology May 2014

• Ran a tutoring service that taught math, college-level chemistry, physics, organic chemistry, and biology

• Helped students move up from Ds and Cs to As

• Contributing factor to me achieving a 98 percentile score on the MCAT

• A song I wrote that marked the beginning of a journey

• Another side of what I’ve achieved

• The deeds

  • Forgave someone who tried to murder me

  • Defended my mom from my abusive father

  • Saved a kid from getting run over by a truck

  • Saved two girls from being assaulted in one incident

  • Saved one girl from being assaulted in another incident

  • Saved my younger brother from bullies

  • Rushed someone who had what looked like a rifle in college

  • Saved a baby and her mother from an oncoming train

  • Volunteered as a big brother mentor