Jake Frischmann

I build software, ML projects, games, and tools.

I’m a Computer Science and Applied Physics student at the University of Maryland. Most of my work lands somewhere between software design, machine learning, robotics, and interactive systems.

Selected work Resume Contact

Skills and Interests

Software design, AI and ML, game development, and projects that solve a real problem.

That can mean planning tools for students, board-game agents, AR event software, or procedural game systems. The projects change. The standard stays the same: build something real, then make it easier for other people to use or understand.

I like building systems that do a real job, then making them easier to read, test, and explain.

Some work starts as a research question. It still has to survive implementation, evaluation, and other people using it.

Games were one of the first reasons I liked programming, and I still come back to them when I want to test design ideas against actual player behavior.

Portfolio

Selected projects, research, games, and demos.

The work is varied on purpose. Some projects are technical deep dives, some are tools, some are games, but all of them started with something I wanted to build or understand for real.

Robotics/Hardware

Soft robotics research covering the printed SpiRob body, Arduino cable control, and simulation environments for a logarithmic-spiral grasping robot.

relax_ratio = 0.2 was tuned experimentally to avoid over-tension
Bringup sequence moved from single motor tests to coordinated control

ML/AI

A Blokus Duo self-play research project using PPO, MCTS, and CNN-based policy and value networks.

Self-play PPO with MCTS-guided data collection on a 14×14 board
Fixed reference opponents keep evaluation honest

Apps/Tools

A planning tool for UMD students that brings course search, degree requirements, and four-year planning into one place.

Demo mode is handled at the data layer, not with per-component conditionals
Degree audit maps completed courses to requirements in real time

Writing and Notes

I keep notes on projects, systems, mentoring, and whatever I am trying to figure out.

Some of it is project writeups. Some of it is game design or mentoring. Some of it is me trying to get a messy technical idea into plain English.

Browse writing

Looking for Summer 2026 work in software engineering, ML, robotics, research, and nearby technical roles.

Start a conversation

I build software, ML projects, games, and tools.

Software design, AI and ML, game development, and projects that solve a real problem.

Software and product work

ML and research

Games and interactive systems

Selected projects, research, games, and demos.

SpiRobControls (Drexel Zheng Lab)

BlokusDuo ML Agents

Orbit UMD

I keep notes on projects, systems, mentoring, and whatever I am trying to figure out.