Samuel Scheffler
Computer science at Purdue ’30.
Phillips Exeter Academy ’26.
National Merit Scholar. Exeter's Computer Science Upper Classmen Award, 2026.
I port PC games to Android and standalone VR, with 381,989 downloads so far. I also do AI alignment research and build trading tools. Looking for internships for summer 2027.
Projects
GDroid2026
Garry's Mod running natively on Android phones and tablets, with touch controls, Steam download, Workshop addons and multiplayer.
354,804 downloads · 178 stars
SourceVR2026
Half-Life 2, Portal and four more Source engine games as native apps on Meta Quest and PICO headsets, with no PC attached. One launcher imports the player's Steam files and updates in place.
18,406 downloads · 80 stars
Qualyx2026
Half-Life: Alyx on a standalone Quest. It hosts a Linux runtime inside an Android app, translates the game's OpenVR calls to OpenXR and renders through Vulkan.
8,779 downloads · 71 stars
Sonist2026
Live trading on mention markets. It transcribes live audio, matches configured words and places orders on Kalshi or Polymarket. A Rust workspace with a React app and a GPU speech service. With Roy Vaid.
OpenGlobe2026
A local 3D globe and 2D map over 93 public datasets, from earthquakes to ship traffic, that needs no API keys.
GeoTiles2026
A satellite imagery explorer for the Exeter Astronomy club. Pick a place and a layer, scrub through time, compare periods and export. With Roy Vaid.
Monte Carlo backtester2026
Runs a trading bot for IMC's Prosperity 4 competition across hundreds of simulated days to show the spread of outcomes instead of a single replay.
polycrypto2026
Records Polymarket's five-minute crypto markets and their order books, and backtests strategies on them. With Roy Vaid.
Video magnification lab2026
Pulse, motion and sound recovered from ordinary video, using five published computer vision methods. With Roy Vaid.
Micro-cap news scorer2026
Scores small-cap headlines for likely price impact from sentiment, event type, source and float. With Roy Vaid.
TVSummarizer2026
Turns a TV episode into a 30 to 60 second narrated recap video.
Arbitrage finder2025
Finds the same event listed on different prediction markets and computes the spread from live order books.
CampusCommotion2025
An iOS app for Exeter students with class schedules, Canvas homework, dining menus, widgets and a Watch app.
Exeter apps
The Student Council's ID system for attendance and elections, an app for The Exonian, and a student Q&A site.
Downloads and stars from GitHub, November 4, 2026.
Research
BioAlignLife2026
BioAlignLife for Trustworthy LLMs in Healthcare-Oriented Settings. A benchmark for whether LLM agents stay aligned as a planted false fact spreads through their memory, retrieval and self-training.
Accepted at BioFM 2026, an IEEE ICDM workshop
Deception probes2026
Linear probes on Qwen3-8B's reasoning tokens that catch the model considering a deceptive move and then rejecting it.
Experience
AV Support Technician, Exeter IT2023 – 2026
Ran AV for school assemblies and visiting speakers.
Summer Conference Tech Assistant, Exeter2024
Set up venues for each presenter and handled attendees' tech questions.
3D design and fabrication, freelance2021 –
Props for an independent film and custom equipment for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
- Computer Science Upper Classmen Award, Exeter2026
- Program committee, IEEE ICDM 2026 workshop2026
- National Merit Scholar
- U.S. Presidential Scholars Program candidate
- College Board National Recognition Program