Brad McNew

Brad McNew

Computer Science Student at the University of Michigan | Full-Stack Developer

Blog posts

2025

Axite AI: A Python Agent for Sim2Real Sensor Validation

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In the winter of 2025, I developed Axite AI, a Python-based software agent designed to validate simulated robotics environments against real-world sensor data. The core of the project was to create a seamless workflow for logging, synchronizing, and analyzing sensor streams for sim-to-real differential analysis.

2024

Building RAG-Enabled Chatbots for Local Businesses

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During the fall of 2024, I developed a project to bring the power of AI to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) by creating custom, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) chatbots for their websites. The goal was to provide customers with instant, context-aware answers to their questions based on the business’s own data.