Welcome to Ellasite

Published 02025-10-14 | Edited 02026-02-21

Hi, I’m Ella. Welcome to my really really awesome website!! You should probably enjoy it, or you won’t enjoy it very much.

About Me

I graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (what a mouthful…) from Rice University in 2024. I now do digital signal processing and database management as a data analyst in the Department of Neurosurgery at The University of Alabama at Birmingham.

In computer world, I enjoy programming mostly in Python/Hy and Rust. I’ve written a few tree-sitter grammars (tree-sitter-hy and tree-sitter-zanscript) to enable better syntax highlighting in my editor, and I’ve made a small project (to-braille) to print images using Unicode braille characters. I prefer Unix-like operating systems and usually work out of a terminal emulator.

At Rice, my senior capstone project was Sea++ where my team created an autonomous solar-powered sailboat from scratch. I especially enjoyed implementing a more robust communication protocol for our microcontrollers. The protocol was built on top of serial with checksumming and error state communication. In other classes, I designed and programmed a custom bicycle spedometer for Beer Bike athletes, and I spent a lot of time playing with images and deep learning models.

When I’m not working, I spend a lot of time reading Hacker News, listening to music, and playing Super Smash Bros. Melee. Out of doors, I love climbing and backpacking, and Red River Gorge, the Ouachita Mountains, and Big Bend National Park are some of my favorite spots.

Links