Brighten Hayama
MSCS + ML Research @ UCSD
About
Hi, I'm Brighten, a current master's student at UC San Diego in the Computer Science & Engineering department, focused on representation learning and computer vision.
I've tutored a handful of CS, math, and data science courses during my undergrad at UCSD. Feel free to check out my past coursework.
Outside of school, I enjoy competitive games like Chess and Counter-Strike. I also love to make Spotify playlists.
Projects
Interpretable Chess
A graph-based opening explorer over Lichess master games, with tunable Stockfish analysis and AI-generated interpretations of each move.
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Agentic Wildfire Smoke Detection
Four LLM agents coordinate computer-vision tools and weather data to adaptively detect early wildfire smoke.
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NBA Assist Networks
An interactive analysis of NBA assist networks from 2001–2024, with per-player centrality stats you can filter by team and season.
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