Preet Baxi

Projects
A collection of work that reflects my journey from engineering design to scientific computing and artificial intelligence. From building rockets and aircraft to developing CUDA-based algorithms and gravitational-wave detection models, each project represents a step toward understanding how data, physics, and computation can shape real-world innovation.

2025
AI-Driven Financial News Trading
An end-to-end AI trading system that analyzes real-time financial news to predict short-term market movements. It combines NLP-based sentiment scoring with automated decision algorithms to generate consistent, data-driven trading insights.
2023
Minesweeper
with CUDA and OpenMP
a high-performance parallel version of Minesweeper using CUDA and OpenMP, optimizing computation across GPU and multi-threaded CPU architectures. The implementation achieved up to 1769× speedup over the sequential version by enhancing mine detection, state propagation, and synchronization efficiency.


2023
Supermassive Binary Black Holes in LISA Band
Crafted and implemented numerical simulation models and signal processing algorithm using Python and LALSuite to model and analyze gravitational wave signals, using data visualization to evaluate detection accuracy and optimize parameter estimation for Super-massive Binary Blackholes in LISA band.
2020
Design and Analysis of Bell-Parabolic De Laval Rocket Nozzle
Presented the design and performance analysis of a bell-parabolic De Laval rocket nozzle, optimized for higher thrust and flow efficiency using advanced CFD simulations. The study demonstrated significant improvements in nozzle geometry and expansion characteristics, published in IEEE ICNTE 2021.


2019
Micro Class RC Aircraft
SAE Aero Design East
Led a team of 30 to design and build RC aircraft, implementing innovative techniques that reduced assembly time to 10 seconds and increase loading capacity by 11 units, securing 2nd place globally.