Jake Frischmann
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.
Skills and Interests
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
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.
Apps/Tools
A planning tool for UMD students that brings course search, degree requirements, and four-year planning into one place.
Games
A cross-platform maze game built around procedural generation, daily puzzles, and replayability instead of fixed handcrafted levels.
ML/AI
A Blokus Duo self-play research project using PPO, MCTS, and CNN-based policy and value networks.
Writing and Notes
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 writingCurrent focus
Looking for Summer 2026 work in software engineering, ML, robotics, research, and nearby technical roles.
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