# Projects — Thomas Carr, Ph.D.

Selected engineering and research projects.

## ViBot — Discord Bot Platform (2020 – 2024)

Comprehensive Discord bot for community organization and moderation in *Realm of the Mad God*, serving 125,000 daily users at peak. Includes user authentication, moderation, a REST API for external web-app interaction, a basic ML model for alt-account detection (98% accuracy), and NLP / web-scraping pipelines for dynamic data gathering. Stack: Node.js, Discord.js, MySQL, TensorFlow.js, Google Cloud, AWS, Express. [GitHub](https://github.com/thomasc33/vibot)

## ViBot.tech — Web App (Fall 2020)

Web interface for the ViBot platform, with real-time server management and data visualization. Discord OAuth2 authentication, hosted on Google Firebase. Stack: React.js, SSL, Firebase, Discord OAuth2.

## Recycling Classification — Computer Vision Web App (Spring 2021)

Computer-vision application for recycling classification from image/video input, built with PyTorch and FastAI. Uses image processing and data augmentation to improve classification accuracy; React.js frontend on Firebase. Stack: Python, PyTorch, FastAI, React.js, Firebase. [GitHub](https://github.com/thomasc33/recycling-classification) · [Live](https://recycling-classification-6db68.web.app/)

## Blue Bounty — Collaborative Note-Taking App (Fall 2020)

Group-project note-taking app built in React.js with a Node.js/Express backend added mid-project. Stack: React.js, Node.js, Express, MySQL. [GitHub](https://github.com/Ksolh/Blue-bounty) · [Live](https://bluebounty-uncc.firebaseapp.com/)

## Thomasc.tech — Personal Portfolio (Fall 2021 – present)

This site. Single-page React 19 portfolio with MUI 7, Framer Motion, tsParticles, emerald + gold dark glass-morphism aesthetic. Hosted on Firebase. [GitHub](https://github.com/thomasc33/Thomasc.tech) · [Live](https://thomasc.tech)

## Charlotte Research Connect — Research Data Visualization (Fall 2021)

Web app visualizing research data for UNC Charlotte faculty. Stack: React.js, Node.js, Express, MySQL. [GitHub](https://github.com/JokkerBang/Charlotte-Research-Connect) · [Live](https://charlotte-research-connect.web.app/)

## C-Track — Enterprise Asset Tracking (Summer 2021 – Fall 2022)

Real-time asset-tracking system for internal use at MDCentric, tracking 30,000+ devices. React.js frontend, Express backend, MS SQL Server, Microsoft OAuth authentication, IIS hosting, user-permission management. [Frontend](https://github.com/thomasc33/Asset-Tracking-Frontend) · [Backend](https://github.com/thomasc33/Asset-Tracking-Backend)

## Research Project Pages

- **PMR — Privacy-centric Deep Motion Retargeting:** [pmr.thomasc.tech](https://pmr.thomasc.tech)
- **DisentangledTMR — Factorized-Transformer Retargeting:** [tmr.thomasc.tech](https://tmr.thomasc.tech)
- **MIRAGE — Streaming Autoregressive Anonymization:** [mirage.thomasc.tech](https://mirage.thomasc.tech)