About Me
Hi, I'm Eliyahu
I'm a junior computer science student at Brooklyn College. Most of my time goes into building full-stack apps and AI/ML systems, competing in cybersecurity CTFs, and doing research. Right now I'm an undergraduate researcher at the CUNY MASS Lab working on internet censorship detection, and I spent this past summer interning at the U.S. Marshals Service.
My main project is XPStrength, a gamified fitness app I've been building since freshman year that's now live on the iOS App Store. I'm running an IRB-approved study on it to see if gamification actually improves workout adherence. On the side, I do hackathons for the fun and the challenge of shipping a full-stack app under a strict time constraint.
Selected Works
XPStrength
· Live on the App StoreFull-stack gamified fitness platform live on the iOS App Store, featuring real-time workout tracking, social friend activity feeds, and an XP-based progression system built with React Native and Node.js backend
Key Features
- ▸Real-time workout tracking & XP system
- ▸Social friend feed with live updates
- ▸Custom exercise library & programs
CoinPulse
· CompletedAdvanced cryptocurrency trend prediction platform leveraging machine learning algorithms with Scikit-Learn, FastAPI backend, and real-time market data integration for accurate price forecasting
Key Features
- ▸ML-powered price prediction model
- ▸Real-time crypto market data
- ▸Dockerized microservices architecture
Experience
Undergraduate Researcher
CUNY MASS Lab, Brooklyn College
- ▹Sole student researcher, advised by Prof. Hui Chen, reimplementing CenDTect (NDSS 2024) — an unsupervised method that trains per-domain decision trees over Censored Planet data and clusters them with DBSCAN to detect internet censorship events.
- ▹Investigating how Censored Planet and OONI diverge in what censorship they detect.
- ▹Responsible for correctness and validation of the detection pipeline, including ground-truth auditing against raw measurement data and algorithm fixes to match the paper's formulation.
- ▹Built evaluation infrastructure for scoring detection results against OONI labels (Python, scikit-learn, pandas, pytest).
Intern
U.S. Marshals Service, Eastern District of New York
- ▹Gathered usability feedback from Deputy U.S. Marshals on Capture, the USMS enterprise case management platform replacing the legacy JDIS system.
- ▹Filed defect reports and proposed interface changes that were adopted in later platform updates.
- ▹Entered and organized sensitive law enforcement records in Excel under agency data-handling policy.
Creator & Developer
XPStrength
- ▹Built and shipped a cross-platform gamified fitness app to the iOS App Store (React Native, TypeScript, Expo) with 50+ registered users.
- ▹Features an XP-based progression system, real-time workout tracking, competitive leagues, a social friend feed, weekly leaderboards, and a visual muscle-recovery heatmap.
- ▹Running an IRB-approved human subjects study evaluating the effectiveness of gamification on workout adherence and outcomes in active users.
- ▹Continuously iterating on features, analytics, and UX based on live user feedback.
Learning & Development Assistant
Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)
- ▹Finished the assigned coding work in the first week and helped other participants finish theirs.
- ▹Led a team of 4 making a vaccine-awareness video for the community.
- ▹Presented the final project to ~50 staff and participants.
Founder & Lead Developer
Platinum Inc.
- ▹Grew a profitable gaming community of 1,000+ active players and Discord members at age 13 through self-run marketing, content updates, and community management.
- ▹Deployed and maintained the server's AWS infrastructure (EC2, networking, backups) with 99.9% uptime under peak concurrent load.
- ▹Launched a monetized web storefront selling in-game ranks and crate keys, integrating automated payment processing and in-game fulfillment to generate consistent revenue.
Let's Talk
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Contact
Information
Location
Brooklyn, NY
EST (UTC-5)
Response
Within 24 hours
Usually faster
Availability
Open to work
Freelance & Part-time