Evan Lewis

Portrait of Evan Lewis

I'm a rising senior at the University of Maryland studying Computer Science with a machine learning concentration and a business minor. I'm interested in applying AI to solve real-world problems in the software, business, and financial sectors. I enjoy learning about new topics and technologies in the machine learning and scientific fields, and I leverage that curiosity to build things that work.

Experience

Projects

3D globe visualization with the CoWoS packaging constraint highlighted across the AI supply chain

AI Supply Chain Globe

TypeScript · Three.js · React · Graph Modeling

Interactive 3D globe mapping the global AI supply chain as a directed, layered graph — power grids, fabs, advanced packaging, data centers, and model labs. Constraints like CoWoS capacity and grid-equipment lead times are first-class entities: select one and everything downstream lights up. Every claim traces to a public, dated source.

Knowledge graph view of HVAC distributor documents

GraphHVAC — AI Operating Manual

Python · Claude Agent Loop · Hybrid Retrieval · Evals

An AI-powered operating manual for an HVAC parts distributor. Ingests messy real-world documents — manufacturer bulletins, regulatory filings, supplier emails, SOPs — into a citation-grounded knowledge base queryable in natural language. Measured on a 30-question golden set: 0.97 recall@5 hybrid retrieval and 0.98 citation recall from the agent loop.

Unified brief combining a cited SEC filing answer with an options market context panel

Filings Intelligence + Options Volatility

Python · RAG · SEC EDGAR · Options Pricing · Streamlit

A financial intelligence platform pairing a citation-validated RAG system over SEC filings (10-K/10-Q/8-K) with a real-time implied-volatility workstation — surfaces, skew, term structure, and expected moves from live option chains. Retrieval and answer quality are measured with a real eval harness (Recall@k, MRR, NDCG), and every value carries explicit provenance.

Illustration of Footnote glossary cards beside a video player

Footnote

Python · FastAPI · OpenAI Structured Output · Chrome Extension

A Chrome extension that turns technical YouTube videos into a just-in-time glossary. Structured LLM extraction over transcripts, strict JSON schema validation, quote-based timestamp resolution, and cache-first storage render playback-synced concept cards inside the watch page — with evaluation tooling for precision, recall, and timestamp coverage.

PlanetTerp Predictor dashboard showing experiment runs and model metrics

PlanetTerp Rating Predictor

Python · Scikit-learn · FastAPI · React · Experiment Tracking

End-to-end ML platform predicting professor ratings from PlanetTerp review data. Extracts 60+ text, sentiment, grade, and course features; benchmarks linear, tree, and boosting models with tuning (best holdout R² 0.81); and serves saved experiment runs, metrics, and predictions through a FastAPI backend and React dashboard.

Research

The most durable way to own the AI buildout is to own its basic material inputs: the upstream consumables every downstream technology needs no matter which architecture wins. Toyo Tanso makes the ultra-high-purity isostatic graphite consumables inside semiconductor crystal-growth furnaces, and its IG-110 grade is one of a very small number of nuclear-qualified graphites going into the high-temperature reactors being built to power AI data centers.

Independent Research · July 2026 · TSE: 5310

Toyo Tanso Co., Ltd. (TSE: 5310)

A four-page note on a Japanese small-cap that sells the isostatic graphite consumables inside semiconductor crystal-growth furnaces and the nuclear-qualified IG-110 graphite going into reactors being built to power AI data centers. It walks through the business, the numbers, the nuclear qualification moat, the ways I could be wrong, and what would change my mind.

This came out of my broader AI supply chain work. I did not find the name in a screener. It surfaced from mapping the compound-semiconductor layer of my AI Supply Chain Globe and scoring the upstream companies on whether the product is genuinely hard to replace, actually moves revenue, and is underfollowed relative to how critical it is.

This is independent research I produced for my own learning. It is not investment advice, I hold no position, and I am not a licensed financial advisor.

Interests

Topics

  • Applied AI
  • AI Ecosystems
  • Financial Markets
  • Business Technologies
  • Physics

Books

  • The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
  • Einstein's Unfinished Revolution by Lee Smolin
  • The Iliad by Homer
  • One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch

Podcasts

  • Dwarkesh Podcast
  • Sean Carroll's Mindscape
  • Relentless
  • Lex Fridman Podcast

Movies

  • The Prestige
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Oppenheimer
  • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  • The Pianist