Chemical and biological engineering major | Programmer
KashfyGazi
I connect engineering, programming, robotics, and visual storytelling through projects that move between hardware, computation, and careful observation.
Profile
Engineering the invisible forces.
I am a Chemical and Biological Engineering student at the University at Buffalo with hands-on experience in embedded programming, robotics, hardware troubleshooting, and team leadership. My work spans low-level control, student engineering teams, technical operations, and photography.
Resume
Experience and education.
Experience
Education
Technical Skills
Accomplishments
Milestones worth pinning to the sky.
Four-dimensional space can be tiled by cubes exactly one way. You are flying through it.
Telemetry
Flying through the 4D void.
The backdrop above is a flight through the tesseractic honeycomb - four-dimensional space tiled edge-to-edge with hypercubes, the only regular way to fill 4D space with cubes. These values read out the exact geometry of one cell and the live state of the flight: how many cells you have flown through, how fast, and the angle of the four-dimensional rotation that keeps everting the corridor. They are live - scroll to dive faster, click to fold space, and watch them respond.
The mathematics
Equations behind the void.
Every value above follows from these relations - the geometry of the tesseract and the honeycomb it tiles, the flat metric of four-dimensional space, and the rotations and projections that draw the void onto a flat screen. Each is explained below it and linked to its source.
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Projects
Things I have built.
Embedded systems, robotics, and engineering - a selection of what I have designed, written, and shipped.
Andromeda is falling toward us at 110 kilometres a second. In about four billion years it arrives.
Simulation
Andromeda - M31.
The backdrop is Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbour, computed from real structure and rotation-curve data. We see it tilted nearly edge-on: a large golden bulge with a double nucleus, tightly-wound arms and a star-forming ring laced with dust lanes, flanked by its companions M32 and M110 - all on a slow collision course with the Milky Way. Each card is tagged M31, M32, or M110 by which galaxy it describes.
The timeline below runs that collision on the published orbit - first passage at 3.87 billion years, merger at 5.86 - and then keeps going, through the starburst, the black holes coalescing, the last star going out, and the long dark after it.
Today - Andromeda is 2.5 million light-years out, closing at 110 km/s.
Its sideways drift is what decides the outcome, and even Gaia measures that to only a few tens of km/s.
Scale: linear to 12 Gyr, then logarithmic to 10100 years.
The mathematics
Equations behind the galaxy.
The structure and motion above follow from these relations - the classical dynamics of spiral and elliptical galaxies, including the companions M32 and M110. Each is explained below it and linked to its source.
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Photography
Frames of captured light.
Long exposures, optics, and the craft of catching photons - a gallery of frames and the physics behind them.
Each of these is light, bent through glass, caught at one particular instant.
How to read it
The four panels.
Open any photograph and the panel beside it fills with four charts. They are not decoration and they are not generic: each is computed from that frame's own metadata and its own pixels, in the order a photograph is made - when it was taken, how much light there was, what came out, and how much of it was sharp.
Below is each one, drawn by the same code the viewer uses, for a real frame in this gallery. Switch the worked example to see how the same chart reads for a very different photograph - which is the fastest way to learn what it is telling you.
Simulation
Light & the lens.
The backdrop is the path of light through a camera - parallel rays bending through a converging lens to a single focal point, split by wavelength into faint colour, gated by a breathing aperture and scattered into out-of-focus bokeh. Every value below is the real physics of taking a photograph, from the thin-lens equation to the diffraction limit that sets how sharp any image can ever be.
By default this is a simulated 50 mm lens on a full-frame body. But open any photo in the gallery and you can load the lens that actually took it - its real focal length, aperture, shutter, ISO and sensor, read from the frame's own EXIF - and every value below recomputes for that photograph. Focus distance is the one thing no camera here recorded, so it stays yours to sweep.
The mathematics
Equations behind the lens.
The image above follows from these relations - the classical optics of lenses, apertures, and diffraction, and the photon physics of light itself. Each is explained below it and linked to its source.
Show the derivations
Contact
Open channel.
Connect with me for engineering, software, robotics, technical operations, or photography work.
The stars behind this page are where they actually are tonight. So is the station.
Simulation
Deep-space link.
The backdrop is a small phased array under a night sky, transmitting toward a distant spacecraft and catching its echo. Every value below is the real physics of a deep-space radio link - from the antenna's gain and beamwidth to the noise floor and channel capacity that decide whether a signal is heard at all.
The stars behind it are the real sky, drawn where the brightest actually stand over the ground station this very moment - Orion, the Dipper and the rest wheel through as the Earth turns. And the International Space Station is really up there: its live position streams in above, and whenever it climbs over the horizon here it is marked among the stars.
The mathematics
Equations behind the link.
The link above follows from these relations - the classical results of antenna theory, propagation, and information theory that govern any radio link, deep-space or otherwise. Each is explained below it and linked to its source.