Max Ratcliff's portfolio website. Built on the Astro Nano theme.https://ratcliff.cc/https://ratcliff.cc/projects/medida-epidemiology/https://ratcliff.cc/projects/medida-epidemiology/An AM 170B class research project applying interpretable model-error discovery to epidemic models.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratcliff.cc/projects/healnet/https://ratcliff.cc/projects/healnet/A PyTorch wound-healing pipeline for stage classification and healing-day forecasting in the ARO Lab.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratcliff.cc/projects/dronerouting/https://ratcliff.cc/projects/dronerouting/A multi-target drone routing optimization engine that models physics like aerodynamic drag and wind to solve an Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratcliff.cc/projects/jepa-research/https://ratcliff.cc/projects/jepa-research/Aligning Spiking Neural Networks with biological latent manifolds using Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures.Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratcliff.cc/projects/chessbot/https://ratcliff.cc/projects/chessbot/A hybrid chess engine combining Minimax search with a ResNet-based neural evaluator, reaching an estimated 1647 ELO.Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratcliff.cc/projects/piefi/https://ratcliff.cc/projects/piefi/An All-in-one start up accelerator platform for foundersMon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratcliff.cc/projects/datapipeline/https://ratcliff.cc/projects/datapipeline/A Customized automated data extraction and prediction pipeline for bacterial germination researchFri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratcliff.cc/projects/weathermodel/https://ratcliff.cc/projects/weathermodel/Denoising and Autoregressive Conv VAE models for Weather ForecastingFri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratcliff.cc/projects/calendarize/https://ratcliff.cc/projects/calendarize/An AI powered media to calendar converterSat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratcliff.cc/projects/benifitfinder/https://ratcliff.cc/projects/benifitfinder/A Personalized Agent for Finding Government Aid and BenefitsSun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratcliff.cc/projects/classwork/https://ratcliff.cc/projects/classwork/A comprehensive description of my classwork and projects from my time at UCSCWed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT