Projects on Daniel Hori Davila

Disaster Assessment

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This was my senior capstone group project, and a crucial opportunity for me to dive into Langchain and OpenRouter more.

It consists of a dashboard map showing satellite before-and-after disaster images and their respective locations. We bench-marked and integrated a Vision Language Model to predict and show the severity of each disaster.

The dashboard contains an integrated chat bot using Retrieval Augmented Generation. Yes, I understand there are now better methods to fetch data now instead of text chunking, but this was more about prioritizing the MVPs and deployment.

Taxmaxx

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

HackAI was my first hackathon where I paired up with a random group of people. In honor of tax season (RIP), we decided to make a personal tax assistant. The app was tailored towards inexperienced filers who want a quick and private way to optimize and analyze their tax metrics by simply uploading their tax forms.

We used the Azure Document Inference API for this POC, which supports all 800 tax form types from their extensive fine-tuned models. I made a script that implemented PPI (personal identifiable information) redaction locally.

Tool Crib

Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I took an engineering elective that caters towards community service projects (you can find more information here). Normally you would expect to be grouped with upperclassmen in a project as a first-year, but random selection put me in a team of individuals with little to no experience as well, so we all had to shoulder a lot more responsibility.

The fabrication shop on campus that is part of UTDesign needed an administrative tool-tracking app for their hardware tools. People would check out these tools via a paper log and sometimes stole from them. I proposed a MERN stack (and used MySQL instead of MongoDB), though later on I realized that we could have easily done something more lightweight like LAMP. It is what it is though. At least we can proudly say that we were the founding software developers of this project, as the development of it extended into later semesters for people to continue optimizing.

Summer

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

My university’s Association of Computing and Machinery chapter has a “Projects” division for students interested in application development every semester. Each project group contains an industry mentor and a project manager for help.

I was part of a team of four that developed a proof-of-concept study tool app named Summer. This was around the time OpenAI released their first models to the public, so we utilized GPT-3.5 to generate summaries and quizzes from educational YouTube videos.