About Me

I'm Daniel Rassaby, a current Computer Science student at Northeastern University. Outside of CS, I might be found discussing philosophy, volunteering at a local kitchen, or just hiking and relaxing with friends.

I became interested in programming because I love the mathematical style of thinking needed to design complex software from simple concepts.

Check out some of my latest work.

Evvo

I co-founded and am a core maintiner of Evvo, the Scala framework for distributed multi-objective evolutionary computing.

Intersectional Game Theory

I created, ran, and analyzed parallel infinite-population evolutionary game theory simulations to explore bargaining dynamics in simulations with multiple identities and arenas. I’m a co-author on a response paper published in the SERRC.

Facebook Audit

We created Facebook Audit to visualize personal data that Facebook stores. It won first place in Hackbeanpot 2019’s “Hack to Give Back” category.

Social Choice Library

We created a social choice library that makes it easier to interpret and analyze election results. It won runner-up at SharkHack 2019.

Dog Project

I participated in a group of undergraduate researchers in Northeastern University’s Philosophy & Religion Department.

Bits&Bots

I am co-president of Bits & Bots, a team of Northeastern undergrads dedicated to promoting interest in STEM fields

Raft

I implemented a version of the Raft Consensus Algorithm.

Web Crawler

I created a web crawler that could handle malformed HTML, server errors, circular link paths, and links outgoing to different websites.

Bridge Spanning Tree Protocol

I implemented the Bridge Spanning Tree Protocol. I represented the bridges and associated ports on the bridges in two classes.

Filesystem

I wrote a filesystem that could be mounted in any machine compatible with the Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) module (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, Minix 3, Android and macOS).

Animations Interpreter

I created an Animations Interpreter to read a simple graphics domain-specific language (DSL) and create/display animations.

Nush

I wrote a bash-like shell (which I called Nush) that allows for the integration of additional commands.

Hmalloc

I created a thread-safe memory allocator (hmalloc) optimized for small allocations.

Freecell

I created a command line version of the game Freecell.

Maze Generation

I created a generator for random mazes that players can race against the computer to solve.

Asteroids

I created a version of the classic arcade game Asteroids in Java using an imperative style.