Yousef Al Hashemi
I am an undergraduate computer science student at McMaster University, I love programming, hacking, classic liturature, sports, and music. This website mainly focuses on the first two. I interned at Intel from May 2020 to August 2021, and at Questrade from May 2022 to August 2022. In the meantime I created the projects listed below.
RoomE was a capstone project on my Computer Science degree. It was a robot built from the ground up which would map an area using lidar. I created a mojority of the programatic logic of the system namely the pathfinding algorithm, the frontier exploration algorithm, the interpretation of lidar data, communicating via USB to the drive train system, and creating testing infrastructure for the system. The project was a great challenge and included many opportunities to solve algorithmic problems along with practical issues that occurred when constructing the physical product together.
Twitch Clipper was a scraping bot I made to create 10 minute videos of highlights from twitch streams. I had the idea when I was watching a video of twitch clips put into a compilation and thought that it was such a simple task that I could probably automate it. The end result was a bot that given a list of channels and a game will find recent popular clips for those channels and edit together a video of those clips.
Sorting Visualizer was one of my first personal projects. I made it in order to explore sorting algorithms in an interesting way. I was inspired by videos on Youtube called "The sounds of sorting", wherin bars of various lengths were scrambled and sorted with different algorithms, and each comparison and swap would play a sound. My take on this was to create a program which would create videos of images being scrambled and then sorted with the sorting algorithm or algorithms of the user's choice.
