Ryan Aubrey

Master's student in CS at Brown working on neurosymbolic 3D — transferring surface detail between meshes with vision-transformer features. Into computer vision, graphics, and shipping real software; co-founder of AthLink.

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Interests

  • Hobbies

    Traveling · Cooking · Gaming · Reading fantasy novels

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Research

  • 2026 – Present

    Graduate Researcher · Brown University

    Developing neurosymbolic surface-detail transfer between meshes via ViT features, with the full pipeline running on Brown's Oscar HPC cluster.

  • 2024 – 2025

    Supervised Study · Harvey Mudd

    Benchmarked six monocular-depth models across 4,269 frames and led a four-person synthetic-data team.

  • Summer 2024

    NSF-REU · University of Utah

    Investigated explainable AI for ViTs and CNNs using Guided Grad-CAM and SSIM feature analysis.

  • Spring 2024

    Research Assistant · Pomona

    Conducted a mixed-methods study of privacy-label comprehension across 116 technical terms.

Publications

  • SCAIR 2025

    Depth Anyviewpoint? Evaluating Monocular Depth Over Viewpoint Sequences

    Rode, Zhang, Ryan Aubrey, Li, Huang, Chu, Dowd, Wloka.

    SCAIR ↗ PDF ↗
  • USENIX SOUPS 2025

    User Understandings of Technical Terms in App Privacy Labels

    Keswani, Walker, Clement, Kitur, Wonghirundacha, Ryan Aubrey, Song, Birrell.

    USENIX ↗ PDF ↗

Building

  • Simulated turtle swimming via a variational integrator on SE(3)
    C++20 · Eigen · Qt6 / OpenGL

    Going with the Flow

    From-scratch implementation of the SIGGRAPH 2024 fluid-structure paper — a turtle swims with no fluid grid, just a variational integrator on SE(3). Extended with an original piecewise added-mass model.

    GitHub ↗
  • Neural Asteroids generated mesh turntable
    Python · PyTorch · Open3D · DeepSDF · Marching Cubes

    Neural Asteroids

    Pipeline that sculpts procedural asteroid SDFs, trains a DeepSDF-style auto-decoder with latent shape codes, then samples the learned space to generate new OBJ meshes for Blender.

    GitHub ↗
  • AthLink iOS app demo
    Swift · SwiftUI · Supabase · MapKit

    AthLink

    Native iOS marketplace pairing athletes with coaches — geo-search, real-time chat, scheduling, payments, and PDF receipts. Co-founder & CTO.

    GitHub ↗
  • Gesture Engine hand tracking demo
    Python · MediaPipe · WebRTC · Electron

    Gesture Engine

    Control YouTube with your hands. Webcam → MediaPipe → WebRTC drives a real Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. No extension, no fakery.

    GitHub ↗
  • Dungeon Core terminal roguelike demo
    Rust · bevy_ecs · ratatui · Ollama

    Dungeon Core

    Dwarf-Fortress-style roguelike where every creature thinks — behavior trees, tiered local LLMs, and an "Imagination Engine" that uses the game sim itself as a Code World Model.

    GitHub ↗

Skills

  • Programming

    Python · Java · TypeScript · Rust · C/C++ · Swift · Haskell · R · HTML/CSS

  • ML & Computer Vision

    PyTorch · TensorFlow · Vision Transformers · CNNs · Guided Grad-CAM · SSIM · monocular depth · neurosymbolic 3D

  • Graphics & 3D

    Blender · Unreal Engine · OpenGL · Qt6 · Eigen

  • Design & Tools

    Figma · Photoshop · Illustrator · Xcode · LaTeX · Excel · SLURM / HPC

  • Spoken

    Mandarin (5 years)

Education

  • Sc.M. Computer Science (AI/ML) · Expected May 2027 · GPA 4.0

    Brown University

    Advanced Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Computer Systems, and Software Engineering. Member of AGI @ Brown.

  • B.A. Computer Science · Media Studies minor · May 2025 · GPA 3.9

    Pomona College

    Computer Vision, Neural Networks, Data Structures, Advanced Programming, and Linear Algebra. Pomona College Scholar and four-year Varsity Track & Field thrower (Shot Put / Discus); SCIAC Athlete of the Week.