Works - Marcos Ashton

A collection of my technical projects, open source contributions, professional experience, and academic work.

Spot Micro AI Dog

Autonomous robotic quadruped with real-time LIDAR navigation and sensor fusion for obstacle detection

Fluid Dynamics Simulation

3D fluid simulation in C using Navier-Stokes equations with AWS and Modal backend

Chess Engine

C++ chess engine with move evaluation and pruning algorithms achieving 800 Lichess rating

Custom scripting language with lexer, parser, and tree-walking interpreter built in Go

Personal project — see live demo

32 merged PRs — cuDNN GRU/LSTM for JAX & PyTorch, new ops, ONNX export, performance, correctness fixes

8 merged PRs — FATE test coverage for libavutil and decoders, plus correctness fixes in libavfilter and libavutil

Incoming software engineering intern — real-time payments fraud and financial-crime prevention

Deep learning for knee osteoarthritis severity classification — 71.7% accuracy with Xception

Literature review on AD theory across TensorFlow, PyTorch, and JAX

Satellite Crop Prediction

Machine learning model achieving 70.4% accuracy predicting avocado crop yields using satellite telemetry

Personal Portfolio

Responsive portfolio with 3D animations using Next.js, Three.js, and Chakra UI

AI Club Website

Interactive AI club website with chatbot integration using Vite, Three.js, and Flask

Robot Kinematics

Mathematical calculations and algorithms for robotic quadruped locomotion