# Projects ### CERN CMS-NGT Optimal Calibrations and Database Solutions > Profiled CMS High Level Trigger calibrations and local conditions-database alternatives at CERN openlab under Task 3.4 of the NGT Real-time Reconstruction Revolution (R³). Benchmarked candidate calibrations in CMSSW (wall-clock, throughput, CPU time, RSS) for inclusion in a minimal R³ demonstrator and assessed HDF5 as a local alternative to the Oracle-based CondDB. Determined SiStripBad and EcalPedestals viable, isolated reconstruction as the prohibitive cost in UpperBound, and traced the HDF5 bottleneck to a sequential architecture remediable via a producer-consumer redesign. [[Paper]] | [[openlab-final-presentation.pdf|Final Presentation]] ### InfraSense > Designed/prototyped a smart sensor system as part of the NYCDF (New York City Design Factory) cross-disciplinary team MOSAIC, in association with the Challenge Based Innovation A3 (CBI A3) program at CERN IdeaSquare. Utilized muon tomography applications, vectorization and AI analysis to provide intelligent system-diagnostic tooling to address NYC water infrastructural issues. Co-authored ”InfraSense: Envisioning the Future of Urban Infrastructure through Muon-Based Sensing” which has been accepted to the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2026, Montreal, Canada). [[InfraSense_White_Paper.pdf|White Paper]] | [[InfraSense_HCII26_Paper_Proposal.pdf|HCII 2026 Accepted Proposal]] ### Phylogenetic Evolutionary Analysis Automation Logic (PEAAL) > Architected a functional-programming paradigm pipeline to automate computationally abstruse workflows involved in positive selection analysis. Replaced manual data handling with integrated API retrieval (OrthoDB) and bioinformatics tool wrapping (MUSCLE, IQTREE3), and adding modularization for future AI ortholog selection libraries. [Github](https://github.com/carsonmagnuson/PEAAL) ### Mojo Kademlia (ACTIVE) >Engineering a decentralized peer-to-peer routing table in Mojo. Prototyping core Kademlia logic in Python before interoperating with Mojo with the aim of leveraging systems-level performance advantages. [Github](https://github.com/carsonmagnuson/mojo-kademlia)