Cocina Oculta is an AI-enabled Digital Restaurant Advertising Platform designed to expand community access to street food by connecting residents across Chicago with local vendors through a streamlined, delivery-first and discovery-driven experience.

Built to support the unique realities of street vendors, the platform provides an intuitive interface where users can explore nearby offerings, discover hidden culinary talent, and access culturally rich food options that are often underrepresented in traditional restaurant ecosystems.

By integrating real time menu visibility, location-based access, and data-informed insights, Cocina Oculta helps vendors operate more efficiently while increasing their visibility and reach within the community.

Beyond convenience, the platform functions as a bridge between neighborhoods and the vibrant street food economy, making it easier for residents to support small, independent vendors while ensuring those vendors have the tools to sustain and grow their businesses.

Through intelligent infrastructure and thoughtful design, Cocina Oculta transforms informal food networks into accessible, scalable systems, strengthening local economies and preserving the cultural identity embedded in Chicago’s street food landscape.

Know Your Rights: Tactical Simulator is an interactive, scenario-based learning tool designed to help individuals understand and practice their legal rights in real-world situations. Rather than relying on passive reading or static guides, the simulator places users inside realistic encounters and asks them to make decisions in the moment, showing how different choices can affect outcomes. The experience is designed to build confidence, clarity, and practical awareness around civil and constitutional rights, especially during high-stress or high-stakes interactions.

The simulator is accessible directly through the browser and requires no prior legal knowledge. Each scenario is written in plain language, grounded in common situations people may encounter, and focused on helping users recognize their rights, communicate effectively, and avoid unnecessary risk. By combining education with active decision-making, Know Your Rights transforms abstract legal concepts into usable knowledge that people can carry with them into everyday life.

This tool is intended for community members, students, educators, advocates, and organizations seeking an approachable, trauma-aware, and practical way to engage with rights education. It prioritizes accessibility, dignity, and informed choice, offering a learning experience that is both empowering and immediately relevant.

La Tiendita AidMatch is an online connection hub that helps match people in need with essential support and services across Chicago’s migrant and immigrant communities.

Inspired by the community-based free store model of La Tiendita is a grassroots initiative that offers clothing, household goods, food, and other necessities with dignity and without judgment.

AidMatch extends that spirit into a digital space where users can quickly find resources, volunteer opportunities, and ways to contribute. Our platform makes it easier for individuals and families to access what they need during times of transition, while also creating pathways for supporters to engage, donate, and coordinate assistance more efficiently.

Rooted in service and designed to strengthen community networks, La Tiendita AidMatch reflects a shared commitment to compassion, mutual aid, and equitable access to basic quality-of-life resources for all Chicago residents.

SafeCast – Secure Uplink is a secure data transmission interface designed to support Safecast’s open-data environmental monitoring network.

It provides a reliable and encrypted pathway for uploading and accessing environmental measurement data. This includes radiation and air quality readings…anything collected by volunteers and sensor devices in the Safecast community.

SafeCast reinforces the project’s mission of delivering accessible, high-quality environmental information while ensuring data integrity and secure communication across the global user and device ecosystem.

Safecast is an international volunteer-driven citizen science initiative that publishes all environmental data openly in the public domain to empower informed decision-making.

Voces en Calma is a bilingual, community-led wellness platform designed for Latinas to anonymously share how stress, trauma, and daily pressures show up in their lives in a safe, private, and judgment-free space.

This quiet digital room centers voices that are often unheard, allowing community stories to guide Latina wellness practitioners who blend ancestral healing traditions such as curanderismo, prayer, and somatic rituals with modern therapeutic approaches.

By listening to real experiences, the platform helps shape culturally grounded pathways to emotional wellness and collective healing.

Built with privacy at its core, Voces en Calma collects no names, emails, or tracking data, ensuring that every story remains anonymous and protected.

The platform is rooted in the belief that healing happens in community and that the remedies passed down by our abuelas are powerful when honored alongside contemporary understandings of trauma and stress.

Through bilingual access and a culturally affirming design, Voces en Calma offers a space where tradition and modern care coexist, where each voice is respected, and where healing is guided by listening, compassion, and shared wisdom.

PDF RAG Assistant is an intelligent document analysis tool that allows users to upload a PDF and interact with its contents through natural language questions. Instead of manually scanning long reports, policies, research papers, or contracts, users can simply upload a document and ask targeted questions to receive precise, context-aware answers grounded directly in the text.

Built using Retrieval Augmented Generation architecture, the assistant identifies relevant sections of the uploaded file and generates responses based strictly on the document’s content. This makes it a powerful tool for researchers, students, legal professionals, nonprofit leaders, and business teams who need faster insight extraction, improved comprehension, and more efficient document review workflows.

The ChiEAC Educator Cultural Asset Profile is a short, guided reflection experience designed for bilingual and community rooted educators who want clear language to describe the strengths they already bring into their work. In just 10–15 minutes, you respond to 20 thoughtfully designed prompts that center your lived experience, cultural knowledge, resilience, and relationships rather than measuring you through a deficit lens. Your reflections are organized into five pillars Identity Assets, Community Assets, Instructional Assets, Wellness and Sustainability Assets, and Purpose and Leadership Assets and transformed into a personalized profile with concise summaries, resume ready bullet points, and practical ideas you can bring back into your classroom or leadership practice. This is not an evaluation or test. It is a translation tool that helps you name, document, and advocate for the value of your work, strengthen your professional narrative, and reconnect with the purpose that grounds you as an educator.

EthicAI is a browser-based algorithmic fairness audit tool designed to evaluate whether classification models produce unequal outcomes across demographic groups such as sex or race.

While machine learning models are often evaluated primarily on accuracy, disparities in decision outcomes and error rates across groups can remain hidden or difficult to communicate.

EthicAI addresses this gap by providing an accessible, privacy-preserving interface for fairness analysis.

The tool supports both demonstration audits using built-in example data and real-world audits using user-uploaded model outputs. Results are presented through clear visualizations and a downloadable fairness report intended for non-technical stakeholders.

CityPulse is an interactive data dashboard that visualizes complex urban data in real time, making city-scale insights accessible and actionable. Built on an intelligent data processing framework, the platform aggregates streaming and historical information from multiple sources, transforming raw data into dynamic visualizations, maps, and analytics. Users can explore patterns and trends across transportation, mobility, environmental sensors, and other urban indicators to understand conditions as they evolve, support data-driven decision making, and communicate insights efficiently. Designed for both high-level overviews and detailed analysis, CityPulse empowers organizations, researchers, and community stakeholders to monitor urban systems, identify correlations, and respond to emerging conditions with clarity and confidence.

SweatSignal is a privacy-first wellness impact measurement tool designed to make emotional and physiological outcomes visible without compromising participant anonymity.

Our platform collects anonymous before-and-after session feedback and translates it into clear dashboards and downloadable PDF reports.

SweatSignal enables studios, facilitators, and community organizations to ethically demonstrate program impact, track aggregate trends, and communicate outcomes to stakeholders using data that centers care, consent, and trust.

BurnSight is an interactive wellness assessment tool powered by machine learning that estimates an individual’s risk of burnout based on self-reported factors related to stress, workload, and well-being.

Our platform uses a predictive model to generate a personalized burnout score and risk interpretation, then delivers clear, adaptive feedback that highlights key contributors to the score.

Users can explore trends over time, visualize how different factors influence their risk relative to normative distributions, and gain actionable insight into patterns that may signal increasing stress or exhaustion.

Designed for use in personal reflection, workplace wellness programs, or organizational health initiatives, BurnSight prioritizes ethical, informational insight without offering medical advice, helping people monitor and understand burnout patterns early.

Social Media Marketing Analyzer is an interactive web-based analytics tool built with Streamlit that helps organizations evaluate and optimize their marketing performance.

The platform ingests campaign data from multiple channels and transforms it into clear, interactive visualizations and performance metrics including trend charts, key performance indicators, and comparison views to support data-driven decision-making.

With customizable filters and dashboards, users can segment results by campaign attributes, detect top and under-performing efforts, and generate insights that inform strategic planning and resource allocation.

Designed for marketers, analysts, and business leaders, the tool simplifies complex campaign analysis into an accessible, actionable interface without requiring advanced technical skills.

Zero Trust Academy is a ChiEAC-certified cybersecurity training program focused on Access Governance and Zero Trust architecture. The program is designed to help learners become fluent in modern identity security practices through a structured, practical learning experience.

Participants complete an 8-module learning path that moves from identity and access fundamentals to advanced governance policies, paired with hands-on labs that simulate real-world security scenarios using industry-relevant tools. The emphasis is not just on theory, but on applied skills used by security professionals.

Upon completion, learners earn a ChiEAC Certified Access Governance Professional credential. To receive certification, participants must complete all modules, pass lab exercises, and score at least 80 percent on the certification exam. The credential includes a digital certificate, a LinkedIn-ready certification, and access to the ChiEAC alumni network.

The program is intentionally accessible, with a one-time $25 certification fee, aligning with ChiEAC’s mission to make high-quality workforce training affordable and community-centered.

In short, Zero Trust Academy provides a practical, low-cost pathway into identity security and Zero Trust principles, backed by ChiEAC and designed for learners who want both skills and a recognized credential.

This tool helps you quickly see where your money is actually going and where you might be overspending, without needing an accountant or expensive software. You simply enter what you planned to spend and what you actually spent, and the tool automatically highlights problems in clear, visual ways using simple charts and color coding. It works entirely in Excel, takes minutes to understand, and gives you instant clarity so you can make smarter decisions, cut unnecessary costs, and stay in control of your business finances month after month.

Comunidad Saludable is a community wellness intelligence platform that transforms fragmented public health, neighborhood, and environmental data into a clear, neighborhood-level picture of health stressors and protective factors. It is designed to help community organizations, educators, public health workers, and local leaders understand where wellness challenges are concentrated and what interventions are most likely to matter. Rather than focusing on individual behavior, Comunidad Saludable centers structural conditions like access, exposure, and neighborhood context and recognizing that health outcomes are shaped long before a clinic visit or wellness program begins.

AutomateROI is a practical decision-support tool that helps individuals and organizations calculate the real return on investment of automation in under 60 seconds. It is designed to remove guesswork from automation decisions by translating everyday workflows into clear, transparent financial outcomes.

Users describe a manual process—such as invoice approval, sales operations, or HR administration—then enter basic inputs like task volume, time per step, hourly labor cost, and expected tool expenses. AutomateROI instantly shows time saved, monthly and annual cost savings, payback period, and net ROI, using assumptions that are fully visible and editable.

The platform pairs a hands-on calculator with real-world automation examples so users can see how repetitive, multi-step tasks shift from manual to automated workflows. Each scenario clearly contrasts the manual process with an optimized automated version, helping teams understand not just the numbers, but the operational impact.

AutomateROI also generates executive-ready PDF reports that summarize savings and payback in a format suitable for budget approvals, stakeholder conversations, and internal proposals. All calculations are audit-friendly, require no spreadsheets, and can be shared immediately.

AutomateROI makes automation decisions clear, defensible, and accessible, enabling teams to confidently invest in tools that save time, reduce errors, and free people for higher-value work—before any code is written or software is purchased.

Explore Chicago is an AI-powered tool is an interactive guide to Chicago designed to make learning about the city accessible, accurate, and engaging.

Built using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and grounded in an index of more than 115 curated documents, it provides reliable, context-aware answers to questions about Chicago’s history, culture, landmarks, food traditions like deep-dish pizza, sports history, and the mission and programs of the Chicago Education Advocacy Cooperative (ChiEAC).

Rather than relying on generic web summaries, the tool retrieves information directly from a verified knowledge base before generating responses, ensuring that answers are specific, educational, and aligned with ChiEAC’s community-centered values.

Whether someone is new to Chicago, exploring the city for the first time, or looking to better understand ChiEAC’s work, this tool serves as a conversational learning companion that encourages curiosity, supports place-based education, and helps users connect more deeply with the Windy City and the communities that shape it.

Edu-Risk AI is an education intelligence tool designed to help schools identify student dropout risk before academic failure occurs by combining traditional academic indicators with real-time emotional insight.

Instead of relying solely on grades and attendance, which often reflect problems after they have already escalated, Edu-Risk AI integrates student voice check-ins and written reflections to surface hidden stress, burnout, and financial strain that may not yet appear in coursework performance.

This approach allows educators to see students as whole people, not just data points on a transcript.

Using advanced AI workflows, the platform analyzes academic records alongside sentiment extracted from student voice notes and journals to generate a clear, privacy-preserving risk score. Teachers and administrators view results through a prioritized dashboard that flags high-risk students early, enabling timely and targeted support.

By listening to students while protecting their privacy, Edu-Risk AI empowers schools to intervene proactively, reduce unexpected dropouts, and create more human-centered, compassionate learning environments where students are supported before they reach a breaking point.

UpliftAI is a full-stack, AI-powered student support platform built to address both academic and wellness challenges students face. The platform helps users manage academic stress, time and schedule planning, study organization, and regular wellness check-ins, all within a single, unified system rather than fragmented tools.

From a technical perspective, the project was designed and implemented as a complete, production-style web application. It uses a modern, responsive frontend that adapts seamlessly across devices, providing an accessible and intuitive user experience. On the backend, I developed a secure RESTful API responsible for handling application logic, data processing, and communication with AI-driven features.

The system includes authentication and role-based access control, ensuring that different user types (such as students and administrators) have appropriate permissions and protected access to sensitive data. Structured data storage is used to manage user profiles, schedules, wellness entries, and academic planning data in a reliable and scalable way.

A key component of the platform is its AI-powered guidance, which supports students through personalized suggestions, check-ins, and planning assistance. These features are integrated directly into the application flow rather than existing as isolated tools, emphasizing real-world usability.

UPLIFT AI is deployed to the cloud, reflecting real deployment practices such as environment configuration, security considerations, and scalability planning. Overall, the project emphasizes full-stack ownership, scalability, usability, and production-ready architecture, demonstrating how AI can be thoughtfully integrated into a real-world student support system.

RETENTIONIQ is an intelligent early-warning platform designed to help colleges and universities identify student dropout risk before it becomes visible in grades or attendance. By combining traditional academic indicators such as grades and attendance with real-time sentiment analysis drawn from short student voice or text check-ins, RETENTIONIQ creates a more complete, human-centered view of student persistence.

Using a multimodal analytics approach that integrates Random Forest–based risk modeling with natural language processing, the system detects patterns of disengagement, burnout, and stress that often precede withdrawal decisions.

This allows institutions to flag “hidden risk” students who may be performing well academically but are quietly struggling. RETENTIONIQ includes a live prototype with a student check-in app and a prioritized faculty dashboard, translating complex data into clear, actionable insights that enable timely, targeted interventions and support more equitable student retention outcomes.

PulseBloom is a web-based reflection platform designed for healers, facilitators, and space-holders to gently capture and visualize the emotional impact of their care. It creates a private space where you can invite clients or participants to share how they felt in your sessions or environments using a few simple interactions — turning subjective emotional presence into shared, emergent patterns of reflection.

Over time, PulseBloom allows you to sense collective feelings and the atmosphere your work creates, giving nuance and visibility to the intangible aspects of care and connection. The app emphasizes simplicity, privacy, and a human-centered experience that supports grounding and reflective insight.

FloodWise is an AI-powered conversational tool that helps users quickly find answers to questions about flood insurance using the official manual as its knowledge base.

Instead of having to read through complicated policy documents or manuals on flood coverage, risk zones, claims filing procedures, and exclusions, users can simply type questions in natural language and receive concise explanations grounded in the manual’s content. This makes it easier for homeowners, agents, community organizations, and anyone navigating flood insurance to understand coverage limits, requirements, and procedures without wading through technical documents.

The assistant streamlines learning and decision-making by surfacing relevant policy details in real time through a friendly chat interface.

TrendLens is an Automated Performance Insight Platform transforms raw spreadsheet data into clear, decision-ready intelligence in seconds. By simply uploading a CSV or Excel file, users receive automated time-series analysis, interactive trend visualizations, and category-based performance comparisons that highlight what is improving, declining, or remaining stable.

The platform goes beyond traditional dashboards by delivering plain-language insight summaries that explain key changes and their implications, while also generating polished HTML and PDF reports for seamless stakeholder communication.

Designed to eliminate manual analysis and reduce uncertainty, it enables organizations to quickly interpret complex data, evaluate performance across programs or groups, and make informed decisions with confidence.

AccessJobs is an AI-powered Career Search Assistant designed to help professionals navigate the complexity of the U.S. job market with clarity and precision.

By allowing users to upload their resume and target specific roles, the platform analyzes individual experience against current job expectations to deliver tailored guidance, including role alignment, application strategy, and positioning insights. It functions as a personalized career guide, offering real-time recommendations that help users refine their resumes, better understand job requirements, and make more informed decisions throughout the application process.

Built on modern AI-driven workflows, tools like this are increasingly transforming job searches by providing customized feedback, resume optimization, and strategic direction that improve candidate readiness and outcomes

ExplainIQ is an AI-powered Data Interpretation Engine that transforms raw datasets into clear, trustworthy, and decision-ready insights in seconds.

By simply uploading a file, users receive plain-English explanations, structured visual summaries, and context-aware analysis that identifies key patterns, anomalies, and performance shifts without requiring technical expertise.

Powered by ultra-fast inference through Groq, the platform eliminates the need for manual analysis and replaces it with precise, interpretable intelligence designed to support confident, real-time decision-making across any domain.

BracketFit 2026 is an AI-powered Decision Engine that transforms how users approach NCAA March Madness by converting individual risk preferences into a personalized, data-driven bracket strategy.

Through a short, structured assessment, the platform analyzes factors such as risk tolerance, upset appetite, pool size, and selection behavior to generate a tailored risk profile that optimizes both expected value and upside potential.

Rather than relying on guesswork or generic predictions, BracketFit applies advanced modeling to recommend strategic pick distributions across rounds, helping users balance stability and boldness with precision.

The result is a clear, actionable framework for making smarter bracket decisions, increasing competitiveness in any pool size while maintaining alignment with each user’s unique approach to risk.

LizLates Dashboard is a modern, AI-powered analytics platform designed to transform raw data into an interactive and visually intuitive experience that supports real time decision making.

Built on Streamlit, the platform provides a seamless web interface where users can explore trends, filter data, and engage with dynamic visualizations without requiring technical expertise or complex setup. Instead of relying on static reports, users can actively interact with their data, adjust views, and uncover meaningful patterns that highlight performance shifts and emerging insights.

The dashboard is structured to make complex information accessible and actionable, allowing individuals and teams to quickly interpret results, communicate findings, and make informed decisions with confidence.

By combining speed, clarity, and usability, LizLates Dashboard represents a new standard for how data is explored, understood, and applied in everyday workflows.

Helix AI Finance Console is an AI-powered Financial Intelligence Platform designed to transform complex financial data into clear, interactive, and decision-ready insights within a single unified interface.

Built as a modern web application on infrastructure like Vercel, the platform delivers a fast, scalable, and highly responsive experience that allows users to analyze financial performance, explore key metrics, and interpret trends in real time without manual modeling or spreadsheet manipulation.

By combining intelligent data processing with intuitive visualizations, it enables users to move seamlessly from raw financial inputs to structured insights that highlight performance drivers, risks, and opportunities.

Rather than presenting static dashboards, Helix AI Finance Console functions as an interactive decision environment where users can engage directly with their financial data, uncover patterns, and generate meaningful interpretations that support strategic planning and operational clarity.

Platforms built on modern AI-native infrastructure increasingly prioritize low-latency processing and flexible model integration, allowing applications like this to deliver real time insights and adaptive analysis at scale. The result is a streamlined, high-performance financial analytics experience that reduces complexity, accelerates insight generation, and empowers users to make confident, data-driven decisions across any financial context.