My name is Ryan Smith, and I am an incoming freshman at Brown University (class of 2029) studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I am currently working in the Brown University Intelligent Robot Lab and the Northwell Health 3D Design and Innovation Lab. I leverage my love of technology to address real-world problems, which has led me to develop a tick mitigation device as part of a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam and to improve water quality access on Long Island in the 2023 Congressional App Challenge.
Aug 2023 - Present
Leading project to design and implement a Visual-Language Model (VLM) to translate task-based videos into Object-Level Planning (OLP) data to enable robot training based on video tutorials, independent of robot type; first author on upcoming publication
Sep 2022 - Present
Developed an application that will be used to track the level of oxygen in the portable tanks used for patient transport, and is currently being evaluated for use in the health system; used computer numerical control (CNC) milling to fabricate cartilage grafts for surgical reconstruction; first author on a scientific abstract presented at national meeting
May 2023 - Present
Leader of one of eight teams in the nation selected for $7,500 research grant and only team to win Microsoft Make What's Next grant; using 3D printing and CAD to create a cost-effective, environmentally friendly, scalable solution to tick mitigation; presented prototype at MIT in June 2024 at MIT.
July 2024
Selected for paid internship as one of 12 high school interns at top-5 global printed circuit board manufacturer
Sep 2023 - Apr 2024
Winner of 2023 National Congressional App Challenge (NY01); developed an app to address water quality issues; presented to members of Congress in Washington D.C. in April 2024
I wrote a program that obfuscates Lua code. It allows you to release programs coded in Lua without distributing the source code. It can be used for Roblox games or any general purpose Lua applications.
As programming lead and team captain, I helped to design and program a FRC robot complete with swerve drive, full odometry, dynamic autonomous modes, and dynamic trajectory calculations to automatically align and score.
Feel free to reach out to me at ryan@kennasmith.com.
