I am a junior at Brigham Young University (studying Applied & Computational Mathematics) and aspiring computer scientist. I'm passionate about learning new things, using technology to help others, and making cool stuff.

• I'm currently taking Theory of Analysis 1 (covering real analysis) in preparation to start the BYU ACME program in the fall.
• I am a Research Assistant/SWE in the MATRIX Lab at BYU. We are working on a project with BYU-Pathway Worldwide students to train machine translation and NTTS models for indigenous African languages.
• I'm learning about how to better use AI to automate my personal life and augment my day-to-day SWE work, as well as building apps that use it.

Personal Projects:

• josephgeis.dev (React/Next.js): my website
• mathematica-mcp^(WIP) (Python, FastMCP): an MCP server that provides tools for LLMs to interface with the Wolfram Langauge.
• THS Bell Schedule (React/Next.js): a bell schedule app for my high school, created with Next.js (:octocat: josephgeis/ths-bell-schedule)
• Buzz-In (React): a Jeopardy buzzer thingy, created with React (Source: josephgeis/buzzin)
• geislaw.com: my dad's website
• quine.py: a Python quine implementation
• VECTCALC (C++): a TI-84 CE application for adding/subtracting vectors
• chess (Java): a multiplayer chess server & TUI client. It has an actual full-color interactive TUI, not just a REPL.
• turing-machine (Python): Python implementation of a Turing machine computing model with infinite tape
• swimming.rs^(WIP) (Rust): a crate for reading SDIF files (used to by competitive swimming meet management software), with future aspirations to build a full swim meet management software.
• bfcomp^(WIP) (A64 Assembly): a bf compiler written purely in A64 assembly, targeting Apple Silicon machines.

Work Projects:

• BYU Pathsay (React/Express): I contributed to research of low-resource languages by developing a full-stack web app that collects speech data from African students for training translation and TTS models.

• Building tools that make AI more accessible and safer/reliable to use.
• Seeing my work get used by others to make their jobs and lives easier.
• Building systems that help LLMs do things better while letting people be in control. (Skills, Tools, MCP, etc.)

• I am originally from Orange County, CA and lived there all growing up.
• I swam competitively for over 10 years. Now, I more often work out at the gym, and I'm also getting into pickleball.
• I am an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I currently volunteer as a clerk for my congregation, responsible for overseeing membership and financial record keeping.
• I have used a computer since I was 3, and have been interested in programming since I was 9.
• 我會說中文！I speak Mandarin at an Advanced-Low level (based on the ACTFL OPI), and can also read and write it fairly proficiently as well.
• After my first year of college, I lived in Taiwan for two years, most notably in the Hsinchu area, as well as in Taipei, Taoyuan, Miaoli, and Hualien.

You can email me at josephegeis@gmail.com. I'm keeping my eyes open for internships and future job opportunities, so feel free to send me anything of that sort. Also, my website is josephgeis.dev. I'll write whenever I feel like it, and there is more information on some of my projects, so check it out.

You can also connect with me on LinkedIn.

A current copy of my résumé can be found here.