Aloha, I’m Samantha! . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁
I'm a software engineer based in Honolulu, currently working on developing flight and ground software for small satellites. My interests span embedded systems, human-computer interaction, and machine learning for space and Earth science.
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Featured Projects
Benchmarking VLMs on Cross-View Camera Orientation Estimation
View project →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
View project →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
View project →A MATLAB-based GUI toolkit for conducting custom auditory oddball experiments for cognitive neuroscience research.
- Software Engineering
- MATLAB
- Python
- GUI
- Neuroscience
Featured Publications
CubeSats for Climate Change Monitoring (C3M): Demonstrating Interferometric IR Payloads Scalable to Constellations
Miguel Nunes, Noah Thompson, Jharrell Sim, Samantha Mallari, Dennis Sarsozo Jr., Junjie Huang, Jaycee Hasegawa, Mari Murillo, Paul Lucey
Proceedings of the Small Satellite Conference
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
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