Hey, I’m Leonardo!
I'm a CS Ph.D. student at USC, advised by Prof. Emilio Ferrara. I like the idea of applying engineering to social systems and I'm interested in studying social agents and artificial societies.
Projects
2024
r/History and r/AlternativeHistory post classifier
Binary post classifier built and trained with textual, numeric, and categorical scraped Reddit data.
2024
r/History and r/AlternativeHistory post classifier
Binary post classifier built and trained with textual, numeric, and categorical scraped Reddit data.
2024
Telegram scraper
Live or one-time recursive Telegram scraper, capable of distributing tasks across many clients.
2024
Telegram scraper
Live or one-time recursive Telegram scraper, capable of distributing tasks across many clients.
2024
House price modelling competition
Kaggle competition to model the house prices in Ames, IA, between 2006 and 2010.
2024
House price modelling competition
Kaggle competition to model the house prices in Ames, IA, between 2006 and 2010.
2024
Human trafficking, population, and GNI per capita
Analysis of contemporary socioeconomic and human trafficking data to shed light on this problem.
2024
Human trafficking, population, and GNI per capita
Analysis of contemporary socioeconomic and human trafficking data to shed light on this problem.
2023
Japanese dictionary
Web app to visualize 8K essential Japanese words, radicals, and mnemonics.
2023
Japanese dictionary
Web app to visualize 8K essential Japanese words, radicals, and mnemonics.
2021
Word search algorithms comparison
Runtime comparison of Boyer-Moore, standard trie, and two brute force searches on a 355K English words dataset.
2021
Word search algorithms comparison
Runtime comparison of Boyer-Moore, standard trie, and two brute force searches on a 355K English words dataset.
2019
Krabby-copter
CAD design, inspired on SpongeBob's Patty Wagon.
2019
Krabby-copter
CAD design, inspired on SpongeBob's Patty Wagon.
Essays
2023
Personal background
Where I come from, my perspective, and why I do what I do.
2023
Personal background
Where I come from, my perspective, and why I do what I do.
Photos
Blog
2021
Korean food culture
In the fall, I studied abroad at Yonsei University while taking an online Food Culture class at SJSU. My research topic for the semester was the Korean food culture. I watched Korean movies, read papers on Korean history, went to Korean restaurants, and talked to Koreans. All while in Korea! I was completely submerged in my study abroad experience, and I loved every bit of it.
Korean food culture
A presentation on the circumstances that shaped the ancient and contemporary Korean food cultures.
Korean food culture
A presentation on the circumstances that shaped the ancient and contemporary Korean food cultures.
Chuseok
A presentation on the concept, origins, and foods of Chuseok and the contemporary ways to celebrate it.
Chuseok
A presentation on the concept, origins, and foods of Chuseok and the contemporary ways to celebrate it.