Zachary Bakhchi

Projects

A collection of academic coursework, professional installations, and engineering projects. Click any project card to view details.

CooperLink

May 2026

Fullstack mentoring platform connecting Cooper Union students with alumni mentors, career advice, and professional networks.

MRI Reconstruction

MRI Compressed Sensing Reconstruction

May 2026

Advanced MRI reconstruction modeling in MATLAB leveraging compressed sensing algorithms and multilevel wavelets.

Real-Time ASCII Video Renderer (Video2ASCII)

December 2025

Real-time rendering engine that translates webcam streams and local video files into colorized or grayscale ASCII output.

FIFO Library

November 2025

A thread-safe concurrent queue library in C implementing custom spin lock-based semaphores for synchronization.

Homemade Linux Shell

October 2025

A custom Unix-like command parser supporting shell scripting, pipeline filtering, and job execution control.

MOSFET Amplifier

May 2025

Simulated and physical prototyping of an electrical MOSFET transistor amplifier conforming to lab guidelines.

AI-Chatbot for The Conference Board (AskTCB)

April 2025

An AI enterprise chatbot utilizing RAG pipelines, Bing Search APIs, and Azure OpenAI model endpoints.

Multi-Threaded Port Scanner

February 2025

High-speed network security port scanner executing concurrent parallel checks via Python multithreading queues.

Diffraction Simulation

Physics with Python

December 2024

Physics simulations plotting Thomas Young's light interference and wave diffraction experiments.

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Theremin

December 2024

Designed and calibrated circuit oscillators on breadboards to fabricate a pitch and volume-controlled Theremin.

Game Portfolio

May 2024

A suite of course projects including SOS (C terminal engine), Uno (Python logic), and Wheel of Fortune (Python solver).

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Network Diagram

July 2023

Enterprise network visual topology modeling documenting client network nodes, routers, and configurations.