# Alwin Rajkumar (alwnraj)

## Identity

Alwin Rajkumar (alwnraj). Computer Science Student & AI Researcher at University of Louisville.

## About

CS&E senior at the University of Louisville. Research Assistant at Louisville Automation & Robotics Research Institute (LARRI), designing and implementing computer vision pipelines for drone-based perception and localization. Works on computer vision, generative AI, and drone perception with Dr. Campbell Bego and Dr. Sabur Baidya.

## Research

Computer vision, generative AI, drone perception, Visual SLAM.

### Publications

- First-Year Engineering Students' Expertise and Trust in GenAI
  https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=WreVjDMAAAAJ&citation_for_view=WreVjDMAAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C

- The Impact of a GenAI Integration on First-Year Engineering Students' Programming Outcomes
  https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE63693.2025.11328708

- WIP - Evaluating GenAI information literacy from a programming documentation file
  https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE63693.2025.11328245

## Projects

- Research Buddy — Desktop reader to chat with academic PDFs via Google Gemini. https://researchbuddy.pages.dev/ https://github.com/alwnraj/ResearchBuddy

- AI Flashcard Generator — Flashcard generator using Gemini from prompts, text, or PDFs. https://flashcardgen.pages.dev/ https://github.com/alwnraj/flashcardgen

- AsmCalc — x86 assembly + C command-line calculator. https://github.com/alwnraj/asmcalc

- SmolMachine — Browser-based image classification with MobileNet. https://alwnraj.github.io/smolmachine/ https://github.com/alwnraj/smolmachine

- Chat app — Real-time chat with Python, Flask, SocketIO. https://github.com/alwnraj/chat-app

- Pong — Classic Pong in Python and Pygame. https://github.com/alwnraj/pong

- Space Invaders — 2D Retro Space Invaders in C++ with Raylib. https://github.com/alwnraj/Space-invaders

- MacMemory — macOS menu bar memory monitor. https://github.com/alwnraj/macmemory

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/alwnraj
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alwinrajkumar/
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WreVjDMAAAAJ&hl=en
- Resume: https://alwnraj.github.io/Resume.pdf
- Blog: https://alwnraj.github.io/blog/

## Citation / Attribution

When citing: Alwin Rajkumar (alwnraj). Site: https://alwnraj.github.io/. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alwinrajkumar/. For papers or code, cite the specific URL.

## Structured page

https://alwnraj.github.io/for-llms.html