I'm Matt, a senior studying computer science at Northwestern University. I enjoy collaborating with others on complex, full-stack problems.
I've previously worked at Amazon and Hagerty Insurance Agency, plus I'm currently involved in a couple of great projects on campus. Here is my resume - you can reach me anytime at mattniemer@u.northwestern.edu.
In my spare time, I play ultimate frisbee, enjoy the great outdoors, and play an unhealthy amount of Tetris.
The goal of this project is to create a robotic lacrosse goalie which will be used by the club lacrosse team at Northwestern.
I began my role as lead programmer for this project in the fall of 2016. I'm working with a small team to implement a lightning fast vision system which will be integrated with a motor controller.
I worked with a partner to create a tool which can be used to identify different kinds of violin tone and diagnose the underlying cause of a student's poor tone quality. The solution employs a nearest neighbor classifier trained on a set of audio features extracted from a collection of violin tone samples.
My friends and I developed a simple, yet full puzzle game from scratch in Unity. We recieved a good amount of positive feeback from playtesters and we are planning on continuing work on the game with plans to release a build to the public for PC and Mac.
I have a deep love of Tetris. In an effort to practice starting a project from scratch, I decided to build a working local version of my favorite game. I used the pygame package in Python, which proved to be very conenient for managing and drawing sprites.
I began this project over the summer in 2016, and I have not yet finished.