Hi, I'm Willie.
I'm working on a special little project. Of course, it involves AI. It's pretty interesting.
Back in college, I founded Nebula Labs, an organization dedicated to building tools to enhance students' educational experiences. I grew a team of four full-stack developers to a communiy of over thirty product designers, UI/UX designers, and engineers of all types spanning four product teams. Nebula Labs' first and flagship product is the Nebula Planner, a drag-and-drop degree plan tool that validates graduation requirements.
I was also the director of engineering for the UT Dallas student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. In that role, I led the creation and deployment of HackPortal, an ambitious open-source hackathon management system and user experience for the largest hackathon in north Texas.
I also formerly served as the secretary and director of technology for the Artificial Intelligence Society, a student-led nonprofit dedicated to making artificial intelligence accessible to a wider audience. There, I presented workshops and oversaw AIM, a mentorship program for students passionate in artificial intelligence. I also redesigned and rebuilt the website using Next.js and rolled out Google Workspace to 30+ team members.
I was a research assistant in the Intelligent Robotics and Vision Lab at UT Dallas, working on a project to build a system that could learn discrete semantic concepts from visual data.
I was an undergraduate researcher for Polycraft World in the Center for Engineering Innovation at UT Dallas as part of a government-funded grant focusing on building agents that can adapt to open-world environments. (I developed tools for a Minecraft mod for AI.)