Hello!

I am currently a 1st year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park. I earned my bachelor's degree in Joint Computer Science and Math from Harvey Mudd College. I am interested in planning algorithms and problems arising from multi-agent coordination and communication.

In the past, I was part of AMISTAD Lab where I studied notions of algorithm capacity and dataset complexity with Prof. George Montañez. I was also part of a neural networks research group exploring programming language translation under the guidance of Prof. Robert Keller.

In my free time, I enjoy running, building physical computing projects with Arduino, and developing apps for iOS.

Publications

Drissi, Sandoval, Ojha, Medero. "Harvey Mudd College at SemEval-2019 Task 4: The Clint-Buchanan Hyperpartisan News Detector". In Proceedings of The 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2019. [arXiv:1905.01962]

Drissi, Watkins, Khant, Ojha, Sandoval, Segev, Weiner, Keller. “Programming Language Translation using a Grammar-Driven Tree-to-Tree Model”. Neural Abstract Machines and Program Induction (NAMPI), 2018. [arXiv:1807.01784]

Teaching

CMSC 436: Programming Handheld Systems, Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland at College Park

CS 81: Computability and Logic, Grader and Tutor, Harvey Mudd College

MATH 187: Operations Research, Grader, Harvey Mudd College

Projects

• I'm developing experimental software to turn AR-enabled iPhones into 3D-scanners. Here's a point cloud of a full-size pickup truck captured with my iPhone 7:

  

• I'm continuing to build TapTunes, an app which brings album dashboards to augmented reality. The project won 2nd Place in the Advanced category at the 5C Hackathon in 2017.

• I built Arithmetical for students. The variety of arithmetic games and upcoming factorization, unit circle, and matrix games can help anyone practice mental math while racing against the clock. View the app's Privacy Policy.

• I recently wired and wrote software for a 32x32 LED matrix that accurately displays time, local weather, and a recent news headline. It uses an Arduino Mega outfitted with an ethernet shield and is installed in my home:

  

Contact

Feel free to email psando AT cs DOT umd DOT edu