louis.place

Hi! I’m currently a student at Brown University studying Computer Science and Applied Math.

I love:

• building software & writing algorithms,
• listening to & producing music, and
• all things games and puzzles

Experiences & Projects

Software Engineering Intern at SpaceX

Developing software to parallelize factory-wide lineside production and writing algorithms that take messy RFID data and produce reliable, location-tagged inventory counts.

E-GLAMOUR Lab at Brown University

Researching theoretical and computational problems in game theory, optimization, and machine learning. Reinforcement learning combines CS and mathematics in a really cool way and really feels like magic.

Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Brown University

Our eyes and vision are one of the main ways of interacting with the web, but there is barely any software out there that takes advantage of it for the individual user. At Brown HCI, I’m studying how web behavior summaries created with local eye-tracking software affects user task resumption.

Also developing and maintaining WebGazer, a webcam eyetracker that updates predictions using user interactions (don’t worry, it all runs locally).

DDNet

DDNet is one of the world’s largest multiplayer open-source games. I’ve:

• Placed first in an official tournament

• Created maps (the levels players actually play), including the most-finished map on the entire network

• Contributed code to the official repository, and work on new features and bug fixes in my free time

I’m currently one of the six administrators that lead DDNet.

24cast.org

Developed first open-source reactive, scalable election portal. Served as on-call developer at Brown Political Review’s live 2024 election event and got to fix a few critical bugs!

Other Stuff

Typing

Top 300 global placement on monkeytype.com 60s leaderboards (note: may be out of date, I only grind every now and then)