Hey 👋 my name is
Karolina Dubiel
I'm a Georgia Tech Computer Science major with concentrations in Cybersecurity and Human-Centered Computing. My interests lie in cybersecurity, robotics, embedded software, and reinforcement learning.
I've previously interned at:
I'm currently working as an Investor focused on robotics and physical AI at Chapter One. DM me if you're building.
I have too many projects to list all of them here, but here are some of the ones I'm most proud of. The rest are
on my Github.
Fault-Tolerant RL Octocopter
I built a custom flat octocopter from scratch with 0 prior hardware experience, from idea to flying (non-RL) drone in 2.5 weeks, RL flight in < 8 weeks. Designed in Fusion 360, CNC-milled from G10 fiberglass and carbon fiber, and assembled by hand with a sim-to-real RL-trained controller that sustains flight through 2+ motor failures.
Echolocating Robotic Arm
Blind object localization on an SO-101 arm with just a wrist-mounted ultrasonic rangefinder. Sweeps the tabletop in a polar scan (arcs around the arm's base), compares each ping to an empty-table baseline, and picks the grid cell where the object is so the arm can grab it.
Table: Auto CRM + Physical Command Center
Table is my task board, synced with Canvas and Google Tasks. Dinner Table is an autonomous contact book. An agent API lets Instinct file people straight from my Granola notes, unprompted. A radar sensor wakes a wall display when I sit down. SvelteKit, SQLite, self-hosted.
UCLA LAHacks '26: Aeromaxx
Quantifies how aerodynamic you are. Extracts body measurements from a photo with MediaPipe, reconstructs a 3D model via Meshy AI, and renders real-time airflow with a custom GLSL CFD shader. Uses Gemma AI to rank drag-reduction interventions by predicted impact.
Stanford TreeHacks '25: HackTCHA
An AI security testbed that benchmarks CAPTCHA robustness by testing solve rates of leading vision-language models (GPT-4o, Gemini 2.0, Mistral Pixtral), and applies novel obfuscation techniques including Diff-CAPTCHA (diffusion model + UNet) to harden CAPTCHAs while preserving human solvability.
HackUPC '25: Travelero Tralala
Solo traveled to Barcelona to build an AI-powered travel coordination platform. Optimizes international meetup locations by computing cost matrices across multi-leg flight routes using Skyscanner API data, with a collaborative Qwen LLM agent and PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy backend.
Hack the North '24: APICasso
At Canada's largest hackathon, built a web scraping tool that converts any website into a structured REST API using Cohere's LLM. Handles dynamic content via custom Chrome drivers and Selenium, with Redis caching and Supabase backend for persistent endpoint storage.
Leaves: Infinite LinkedIn Queens
An infinite clone of the LinkedIn Queens puzzle built with Next.js and React. Custom N-Queens solver with randomized backtracking and dynamic color region generation creates unlimited unique puzzles. Real-time validation and multiple color palette themes.
Impact Hack '23: Particle Visualization
A live air pollutant particle visualization tool for any area in the world using Particle.JS and the OpenWeatherMap API, winning among 300+ other hackers.
Made with 💖 by Karolina Dubiel using HTML5, Tailwind CSS, and JavaScript. Last updated September 2026.