hi, i'm

student @ the university of virginia

Illustrated portrait of Pierce Brookins
green circle open to new opportunities SSH Portfolio

recent builds + wins

Marvis project preview

marvis

๐Ÿ† hackmit 1st place

ai-powered ar repair assistant for mentra glasses using computer vision, llms, voice, cerebras, claude, and aws s3

Eco Router project preview

eco router

๐Ÿ† yhack 1st place

carbon-aware llm router with custom benchmarking forked from autoresearch, running across qwen, pytorch, fastapi, and dgx spark

Kandi project preview

kandi

๐Ÿ† hack to the beat @ uva 1st place

smart concert assistant glasses for hearing-risk alerts and friend-finding with swiftui, avaudioengine, ble, rssi, and hud design

Accelerating Asylum project preview

accelerating asylum

๐Ÿ† genai 1st place

generative ai for the common good at uva mcintire, focused on making asylum workflows faster and easier to navigate

music i'm listening to

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things i do pretty well:

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ai agents, llm tooling, and rapid prototypes

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human-centered product and interface design

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machine learning research and data pipelines

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ai workshops, live builds, and technical storytelling

currently / recently

anthropic

growth intern

scaled claude code adoption, led a 160+ participant hackathon, and founded a 600+ member ai club

uva

ta + ml researcher

teaching python, tensorflow, and pytorch while building gpu-accelerated nlp pipelines on hpc infrastructure

coursework

ai + ml systems

cs 6501 building ai agents, cs 4710 artificial intelligence, cs 4774 machine learning, hci, and graduate data science coursework

if i can ever help,

reach out: byd5ur@virginia.edu