noambendelac.xyz Web Portfolio and Resume2024

• Implemented and designed this resume and a personal portfolio in Next.js, React, and Figma
• Optimized CSS animations by using compositor properties and segregating from React rerenders

Third Person Perspective in Virtual Reality2023—2024

• Prototyped control schemes and game mechanics for 3rd person exocentric VR in Unity and C#
• Ran user study on 3rd person VR design challenges like cybersickness and camera clipping

Piano Performance Visualization - Team Leader2023

• Led design and development of a frontend app visualizing piano pitch, rhythm, volume, and tempo
• Modified Needleman-Wunsch algorithm to match played and expected notes with error tolerance
• Optimized performance-critical compute and Three.js state updates to not be slowed by React

Graduate Capstone - Interactive 3D Diagrams for Hybrid Classrooms - Team Leader2022

• Designed and built a full-stack STEM education app in Figma, Node, TypeScript, React, and WebGL
• Created 3D diagrams for physics and calculus, and procedural geometry of user-defined math
• Developed a cloud-hosted HTTP and WebSocket backend API to let teachers and students interact

ISE Engineering Department Website UX Research and Redesign2023

• Ran competitive analysis and faculty focus groups. Redesigned info architecture and wireframes
• Department's full time designer adopted my research and design solutions to jumpstart their work

Filmmakers Club UX Research, Design, and Evaluation - Team Leader2022

• Conducted UX interviews, observations, and artifact flow model of filmmakers to study user needs
• Iterated low-fi wireframes and high-fi prototype of improved film schedule optimization workflow
• Ran a Wizard of Oz user test on a data- and decision-centric user flow that Figma couldn't support

Virginia E-ZPass Landing Page Redesign2021

• Redesigned page in Figma to improve accessibility, reduce clutter, and clarify information hierarchy
• Adhered to E-ZPass brand colors, tone of voice, and image assets remastered to vector graphics

Amateur Stargazing App UX Research, Design, and Evaluation2021

• Conducted UX interviews, observations, and affinity diagramming of shared outdoor campus space
• Designed stargazing app mockups and ran a cognitive walkthrough evaluation with target users

Demo Projects2024

• Raytracer performance optimization with multithreading and acceleration structure in modern C++23
• Grass 3D graphics using 100,000 mesh instancing and a subsurface scattering shader
• 4-dimensional tetrahedral mesh geometry sliced into 3D procedural geometry in Three.js
• Minesweeper in Rust running in a browser frontend through WebAssembly

Undergrad Capstone - Spatial Audio Design Editor - Team Leader2022

• Designed and implemented a 3D spatial audio editor using React, TypeScript, and WebGL
• Visualized spatial audio fields heatmap following the Web Audio standard in a custom GLSL shader
• Mentored teammates in React and Three.js. Won Capstone Industry Sponsor Award

Dover Fueling Solutions Hackathon Winner, 1st Place2022

• Lead developer and taught teammates React for voice activated React app for digital gas pumps

C HTTP/1.1 Web Server2021

• Implemented an HTTP server in C hosted on AWS. Supports JWT auth, Range requests, and JSON

Classmate Finder Google Forms Plugin2019

• Volunteered to develop a JavaScript tool that connects students taking the same courses
• Helped my on-campus residence community make connections during the Covid-19 pandemic