Samantha Mallari

Software Engineer

Aloha mai kakou! I am a recent graduate from the Department of Information and Computer Science at UH Manoa in the combined Bachelor's and Master's pathway. I received my B.S. in Spring, 2025 and received my M.S. in Spring, 2026.

Interests: Software Engineering, Embedded Systems, Computer Networks, ML, AI, Robotics, Internet of Things

Projects

Benchmarking VLMs on Cross-View Camera Orientation Estimation 2026-05

Developed a cross-view camera orientation estimation benchmark for vision-language models to evaluate spatial reasoning across aerial and street-view imagery for GPS-denied navigation.

Vision-Language Models Large Language Models Natural Language Processing Computer Vision Large-Scale AI AI/ML

Enhancing Real-Time Monitoring of Radio Telescope Power Metrics with Grafana 2025-07

Custom Grafana dashboards for monitoring antenna signal health and power usage for off-grid radio telescope

Software Engineering Data Visualization JavaScript Python Grafana SysOps Astronomy

Cognitive Neuroscience Experiment Toolkit 2025-05

A MATLAB-based GUI toolkit for conducting custom auditory oddball experiments for cognitive neuroscience research.

Software Engineering MATLAB Python GUI Neuroscience

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Publications

A Software-Defined SNACK Protocol for Reliable High-Throughput Data Transfer on MTU-Constrained Low-Cost UHF Radios

Samantha Mallari, Dennis Sarsozo Jr.

Proceedings of the Small Satellite Conference, Poster Session · 2026-08

Conference Poster

CubeSats for Climate Change Monitoring (C3M): Demonstrating Interferometric IR Payloads Scalable to Constellations

Noah Thompson, Jharrell Sim, Samantha Mallari, Dennis Sarsozo Jr., Junjie Huang, Jaycee Hasegawa, Mari Murillo, Miguel Nunes

Proceedings of the Small Satellite Conference, Poster Session · 2026-08

Conference Poster