Kai Meister - Portfolio

Fast64 - Banjo-Kazooie Module

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Directly connect Blender to a Banjo-Kazooie ROM file.

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Extract level data from the game files, including geometry, textures and gameplay functionalities.

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Edit existing levels or create new ones, translate them back into N64 data and inject them into the game files.

BerryMe - CNN Berry Recognition

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Designed and trained a CNN Pipeline to count berries.

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Pipeline applies various image processing techniques to clean up the data for the CNN model.

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Determined most problematic aspects of the data by evaluating attention heatmaps.

ASTrAEA Exoplanet Pipeline (M.Sc.)

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Designed fully autonomous reduction pipeline for astrophysical spectra of exoplanetary atmospheres.

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Evaluated 1700+ spectra from 20 different exoplanets.

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Generalized various complex reduction steps with algorithmic approaches to achieve complete autonomy.

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Devised a module that interfaces into multiple existing APIs to gather and verify data on analyzed exoplanets.

Dusty Lyman-Break Galaxies (B.Sc.)

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Formulate Dust Models for simulated Lyman-Break galaxies from the Illustris Project.

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Evaluate models through light-transport code, capture simulated light and identify Lyman-Break features.

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Compare extracted simulation results with real-world counterparts to assess model accuracies.

Pi-Plays-Pokémon Heatmap

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Process days of video footage from a Pokémon twitch stream to extract data for statistical analyses (parallelized process).

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Use OpenCV to match processed footage to map-mosaics to track and export player location.

MKDD RNG Bruteforcer

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Predict random item-draws in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! by simulating its (deterministic) RNG for multiple possible game-states.

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Given a specific sequence of item-draws, bruteforce for game-states that allow the sequence to occur.

ScriptHawk - Bomberman 64

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Monitor and parse in-game memory like player position and movement state in real time.

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Edit game-state on demand for testing purposes (setting infinite HP, instant warping, editting collectables).

Banjo-Kazooie Gap Bruteforcer

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Analysed game code to understand arithmetic floating-point errors in collision logic, which create infinitesimal gaps.

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Developed a Bruteforcer to find and exploit these gaps.

Data Science Projects