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Ben Ross

Computer science at the University of Maryland · Army Research Laboratory, summer 2026

benmross.com · LinkedIn · ben@benmross.com · CV

Now

  • Herald: an open-source personal agent that runs on your own machine. It reads mail, calendar, messages, location and health into one ledger, and anything another person would see waits for a tap on your phone.
  • loop-s2: operator console for the URC Autonomous Navigation Mission, ROS 2 Jazzy, built for UMD Loop Challenge Week.
  • Planet Falconia, a VR digital twin of a rover mission built with NIST, accepted at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Educator's Forum.

Built

  • SMCS Kart (gokart-dash): a drive-by-wire electric go-kart, pitched to replace the robotics curriculum at Poolesville High School and taught from as it was built. Teensy 4.1, ESP32 steer-by-wire over CAN, a React dashboard on a Raspberry Pi. 40 mph, 40 hp peak.
  • GNSS spoofing detection, Army Research Laboratory: finding where GPS is being spoofed from the position reports ships and aircraft already broadcast.
  • Sparrows: schedules, clubs and announcements for 30+ schools in Montgomery County, about 30,000 monthly users. Lead developer, 2023 to 2026.
  • BenGPT: Llama 3.1 fine-tuned on five years of my own text messages. My best friend could not reliably tell it from me.
  • emulsion: film grain generated from math in one WebGL2 shader. Try it.
  • PartyPad: phone browsers as motion controllers for Dolphin.
  • Earlier: an autonomous blimp, the lead programming on a rover for a simulated exoplanet, and a Next.js and Stripe platform for a nonprofit.

Tools

Languages    Python · TypeScript · Java · SQL · Bash
ML & data    TensorFlow · CUDA · OpenCV · llama.cpp · SQLite
Systems      Linux · Docker · Caddy · Cloudflare · Tailscale · Vercel
Web          React · React Native · Next.js · Flask · MongoDB
Hardware     Teensy · ESP32 · Raspberry Pi · CAN · LiDAR

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  1. emulsion emulsion Public

    Generative grain plates for still and moving monochrome fields — a single-pass WebGL2 image lab.

    JavaScript

  2. herald herald Public

    A personal agent that runs on your own machine: reads what you connect, remembers what it concludes, and tells you each morning what actually matters.

    Python

  3. loop-s2 loop-s2 Public

    UMD Loop Challenge Week S2: PyQt operator console for the URC Autonomous Navigation Mission (ROS 2 Jazzy)

    Python

  4. partypad partypad Public

    Turn phone browsers into motion-capable controllers for Dolphin

    Python

  5. smcs-alumni smcs-alumni Public

    Forked from byung806/smcs-alumni

    The source code for the SMCS Alumni website

    TypeScript