Class of 2028

George Conlan

Student engineer and researcher · Robotics software, embedded hardware, quantitative research

I love Movies!

Selected work

Timeline

2021
Altar server
Began serving at Mass.
2025
DECA ICDC Finalist
Principles of Entrepreneurship; 5th at State.
Summer 2025
University of Washington
Started concurrent enrollment in Java programming.
May 2026
AMRIA Health
Co-founded a medical imaging platform at CascadiaJS; 10th of ~300.
May 2026
Seattle Solvers FTC #23511
Joined the software team; cut autonomous position error 6.8x.
July 2026
Cα network model and Parthenon
Protein flexibility benchmark on 99 structures; quant research engine.
Sept 2026
Parts inventory API and NWHS treasurer
Deployed a multi-team inventory API; became treasurer of a 501(c)(3).
Oct 2026
Finly and Torque Atlas
Tracking tag in PCBWay review; actuator benchmark running end to end in simulation.

WHAT I'M FOCUSED ON

Now

Last updated October 2026

Building Finly's first board run Working through PCBWay's engineering review on the UWB tracking tag before the first boards are fabricated.
Robotics Seattle Solvers autonomy Path planning and path following for FTC #23511's autonomous routines.
Research V8 engine cycle Modeling the thermodynamic cycle of V8 engines to find where efficiency can be gained.
Hardware Torque Atlas bench All ten actuator tests run in simulation; the physical bench is next.
Math AMC 12 and AIME Competition math preparation for this season.
Watching Interstellar, again Still number one on the Movies page.

01 / EXPERIENCE & VENTURES

Work

A robotics team, a hardware startup, and a hackathon build.

May 2026 to Present
Seattle, WA

Seattle Solvers FTC #23511

Software Team Member

Built a differential swerve drivetrain and custom path follower in Java (SolversLib, JUnit 5), plus a browser simulator that matches the Java on 166,400 random inputs and generates autonomous code from planned paths.

Cut mean final position error 6.8x (18.8 to 2.8 in) and mean autonomous time 16% (5.60 s to 4.71 s) over 42 runs.

Owned path planning in a three-way split of the autonomy stack with vision and routines; every change passed AI review, then programming-lead review.

Team code contributions and experiments across the Offseason, Decode, BioBuzz and Crumates programs, plus smaller tools.

JavaSolversLibJUnit 5
2026 to Present
Hardware startup

Finly

Founder and project lead · Smart tracking tags

Designed a UWB tracking tag end to end: enclosure, a 39 × 37 mm two-layer PCB (nRF52833 + DWM3000), firmware, phone app and server. Now working with PCBWay engineers on the first board run.

Generated the schematic from code to keep parts, pin map and firmware in sync; fixed three faults found in an outside design review.

Manufacturing preparation: schematics, BOM, board revisions, fabrication files, and PCBWay review. Production pending.

C (Zephyr)Python (CadQuery)KiCadnRF52833DWM3000
May 2026
CascadiaJS Hackathon

AMRIA Health

Co-founder

Built, with a team of four, an AI-assisted medical image analysis platform for the CascadiaJS Hackathon, placing 10th of ~300 participants.

Built the Box API integration; as a team, worked out how to make Box (a hackathon requirement) useful rather than bolted on.

JavaScriptBox API
amria.org ↗

02 / BUILT & BUILDING

Projects

Robotics and hardware, software products, and quantitative finance.

First Java Project

Find a Chore

Prototype

A prototype with separate adult and child interfaces. Adults post a chore, the price they will pay and a contact number; kids set their address and a distance radius, then browse and accept nearby chores. Unfortunately I didn't get it to work :(.

Find a Chore adult chore-posting screen
Adult view: posting a chore
Find a Chore child screen
Child view: setting a radius to browse chores

Robotics & hardware

04 projects
Benchmarking platform Bench pending

Torque Atlas

An open, standardized test protocol for robot joint actuators. All ten tests run end to end in simulation with full uncertainty budgets, and real-actuator drivers are written ahead of the bench build. Results publish to a static comparison site (Astro, TypeScript, Plotly.js) that never computes metrics itself: it only displays what the pipeline writes. Each actuator page puts vendor claims beside measured values, shows every metric with its uncertainty budget, and offers the raw run files for download; up to four actuators can be overlaid on one chart. While the data is simulated, every page carries a sample-data banner.

HOW IT WORKS
01Actuator tests →02atlas publish →03JSON data →04Static site →05Compare & download
PythonpytestmypyAstroTypeScriptPlotly.js
Simulation In progress

Robotic Research Arm

The goal is a five-axis robotic arm with machine-learning vision that can identify, lift and hold heavy objects. If I have time left over, the bonus round: teaching it to watch a human hand and copy its movements. Current work: a MuJoCo arm and gripper simulator with motor dynamics, sensor noise and operating limits, used for component sizing and control-tuning groundwork.

HOW IT WORKS
01Motor model →02MuJoCo arm + gripper →03Sensor noise & limits →04Sizing & tuning
MuJoCoPython
Research drone

ForestOcean

Companion software for a tethered underwater sampling drone: telemetry, environmental sampling, safety interlocks, scientific analysis and simulation, covered by 243 pytest tests.

HOW IT WORKS
01Mission plan →02Sampling →03Safety interlocks →04Telemetry →05Analysis
PythonMAVSDKPX4
GitHub ↗
Photo drone

SwiftCam

Photography mission planning that calculates motion blur and capture timing and caps speed to keep frames sharp, with simulation and hardware adapters.

HOW IT WORKS
01Flight plan →02Blur model →03Speed cap →04Capture
PythonMAVSDK
GitHub ↗

Applications & software

04 projects
API · Deployed

Seattle Solvers Parts Inventory

A multi-team inventory API with authentication, roles and CSV export, plus receipt intake from emails, PDFs and images. Line items are matched to parts and applied only after user confirmation, and parsing is scored against a labeled receipt set.

HOW IT WORKS
01Email / PDF / photo →02OCR + vision →03Part match →04User confirms →05Inventory
TypeScriptFastifyPrismaPostgreSQLVitest
GitHub ↗
Full-stack platform

ResearchAI

A permanent, searchable home for student research, from middle school through college. Today a student runs a survey, writes a paper in Google Docs, submits it, and it disappears; ResearchAI replaces that with one platform. Papers go through a three-step publish wizard where an AI check rates each source as reliable, worth verifying, or unreliable and writes a one-line summary. Built-in tools include a survey builder, a CSV data visualizer, and an AI research assistant. Built on Node.js and Express with SQLite, session auth with bcrypt, and the Claude API, with a plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript frontend.

HOW IT WORKS
01Write & cite →02AI source check →03AI summary →04Publish →05Searchable repository
Node.jsExpressSQLiteClaude APIJavaScript
Hackathon · Co-founder Discontinued

AMRIA Health

A medical image analysis platform built with a team of four for the CascadiaJS Hackathon, placing 10th of ~300 participants. I built the Box integration. The project has since been discontinued because AWS hosting was too expensive to keep running, so amria.org no longer works as intended.

Any compliance or other legal claims on the AMRIA website are not real; they were made only as a demo for the hackathon.

HOW IT WORKS
01Medical image →02Box storage →03AI analysis →04Results
JavaScriptBox API
amria.org ↗ GitHub ↗
Backend

Banking Application Backend

Accounts, transactions, authentication, document processing and encryption, with tests.

HOW IT WORKS
01Auth →02Accounts →03Transactions →04Encryption
BackendTests

Quantitative finance

02 projects
Research stack In development

Project Parthenon

Chiron trains PYTHIA, a transparent alpha model, with its own autodiff and optimizer on tick-level market data, checked against permutation nulls, placebo markets and purged cross-validation, alongside causality and symbolic-discovery components. Athena is a C++20 execution-engine scaffold reading Chiron's output over memory-mapped communication. Kairos is a Python research terminal with a Rust version scaffolded. A manuscript documents the system.

HOW IT WORKS
01Market data →02Chiron →03PYTHIA equation →04Memory map →05Athena
PythonNumPyC++20Rust
GitHub ↗
Streamlit app

Monte Carlo Stock Simulator

Simulates price paths and reports summary statistics and charts.

HOW IT WORKS
01Parameters →02Price paths →03Statistics →04Charts
PythonStreamlit

03 / INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

Research

Thermodynamics, computational structural biology, and peptide research.

Thermodynamics · Onshape CAD IN PROGRESS

V8 Engine Thermodynamic Cycle Optimization

Working on ways to optimize the thermodynamic cycle of V8 engines to raise their efficiency.

HOW IT WORKS
01Engine cycle
↓
02Thermodynamic model
↓
03Optimization
↓
04Higher efficiency
Structural biology · Python, NumPy

Cα Anisotropic Network Model

Predicts per-residue protein flexibility from structure alone. Each Cα atom becomes a node in a spring network; diagonalizing the network's Hessian gives normal modes, and the resulting mean-square fluctuation is checked against the structure's experimental B-factors, with a PDF report and optional mode animation.

99
X-ray structures
0.44
mean Pearson r
0.54
mean Spearman ρ
HOW IT WORKS
01PDB structure →02Cα contact graph →03Hessian →04Normal modes →05MSF vs B-factors
PythonNumPypytest
GitHub ↗
Machine learning · Python

Protein Secondary Structure Predictor

Predicts helix, sheet and coil for each residue from amino acid sequence. Sliding windows capture local context, biochemical features feed a decision tree, logistic regression or random forest, and the tree's rules are extracted with biological interpretations. In-silico mutation experiments test how single substitutions shift the prediction.

HOW IT WORKS
01Sequence →02Sliding windows →03Biochemical features →04Classifier →05Readable rules →06Mutation tests
Pythonscikit-learnpandasBiopython
GitHub ↗
Structural biology · Python Future work

Protein Analysis Toolkit

Structure comparison, residue-level analysis and statistical tests, organized as reusable notebooks.

HOW IT WORKS
01Structures →02Comparison →03Residue analysis →04Statistical tests
PythonNotebooks
GitHub ↗
Peptide research · Side project Ongoing

Magainin-2 Positional Constraint Study

A passive side project on which positions in the antimicrobial peptide Magainin-2 tolerate change. The original plan (literature review, hypotheses, data collection, and a prediction and validation plan) ran into a saturated field: previous researchers had already mapped essentially every critical, constrained residue. For now, I'm writing code to see whether I can find similarities between critical proteins.

HOW IT WORKS
01Known critical residues →02Similarity code →03Cross-protein comparison →04Patterns
PythonLiterature review

04 / EDUCATION & SKILLS

Academics

4.0 / 4.46
Unweighted / weighted GPA
1410
PSAT 10
5 · 5 · 5
AP Calc AB, Physics 1, CS Principles
4
AP CSA
Expected June 2028

Eastside Catholic School

Sammamish, WA. Class of 2028.

Summer 2025 to Present

University of Washington

Concurrent enrollment. CSE 122 (Java), A in progress; Java Programming I and II.

Upcoming

Bellevue College

Concurrent enrollment.

Certificates

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
University of Washington Youth & Teen Java II badge
Java II

Coursework

COMPLETED / IN PROGRESS
AP CSPAP CSAAP Physics 1AP Calc ABAP Calc BCAP Physics 2AP Physics CAP LangUW Data Structures
FUTURE · BELLEVUE COLLEGE
Multivariable CalculusLinear AlgebraDifferential Equations

Technical skills

LANGUAGES
JavaPythonTypeScript / JavaScriptC (embedded)SQL
LIBRARIES / FRAMEWORKS
JUnit 5NumPyscikit-learnFastifyNext.jsPrismaZodVitestpytestZephyr RTOS
TOOLS
Git / GitHubGradlePostgreSQL (Supabase)DockerRenderKiCadOnshapeCadQuery / FreeCAD

05 / COMPETITIONS, ATHLETICS & SERVICE

Beyond

Competitions & awards

ICDC Finalist DECA, Principles of Entrepreneurship 2025
5th, State DECA, Principles of Entrepreneurship 2025
ICDC Qualifier DECA, Project Management 2026
1st, Area DECA, Financial Consulting 2026
11th, State DECA 2026
10th of ~300 CascadiaJS Hackathon, AMRIA Health 2026
3rd Place Washington All-Comers Tennis Tournament 2025
Varsity Varsity Tennis, Eastside Catholic
AMC 12: Coming soon
AIME: Coming soon

Volunteering

Sept 2026 to Present

Treasurer

Northwest Hope Society, 501(c)(3) nonprofit

Manage the books for a nonprofit supplying local kids with school supplies; built NWHS Treasury (Next.js, PostgreSQL) to turn receipt photos into IRS Form 990-tagged records.

Sept 2025 to Present

Volunteer

Private medical clinic, Seattle, WA

Data logging for past patient records.

2021 to Present

Altar Server

Sacred Heart School and Eastside Catholic

Serving at Mass.

June 2026

Volunteer Tennis Coach

Eastside Catholic, middle school players

Coaching middle school players.

06 / POPCORN BREAK

Movie Night

My Top Three Movies right now

Ranked with zero professional film training and a lot of popcorn.

NOW SHOWING Interstellar poster #1 Interstellar
#1

Interstellar

Certified masterpiece

“10/10. No words.”

NOW SHOWING Hereditary poster #2 Hereditary
#2

Hereditary

Watched through my fingers

“I can't believe my friends talked me into watching this it was horrifying”

NOW SHOWING Obsession poster #3 Obsession
#3

Obsession

Jumpscare count: one or two

“It was very good, but not too scary other than one or two jumpscares”