Engineer + Creator

Nick
Cornell

I build things.

01 Engineering
02 Technology
03 Visual Design
01 / Portfolio

Selected Projects

Project 01

Grandma.care ↗

Also developed as HelloFriend.care

A caregiving platform designed to help older adults live more independently through reminders, a caregiver dashboard, family notes, simple tablet prompts and missed-reminder alerts.

Health Tech Web App AI-Assisted Coding
Project 02

SurgeWatch.live ↗

An address-based flood-risk project inspired by growing up in flood-prone Hoboken. It combines environmental and infrastructure information to make flood risk easier to understand.

Infrastructure Flood Resilience Data
Project 03

CornellBot.com ↗

An AI assistant experiment for exploring large language models, prompt design, interfaces and practical ways people can work with AI.

AI Software Experiment
Project 04

Mushroom Automation ↗

An indoor gourmet mushroom growing system combining biology, environmental controls, sensors and hands-on experimentation with humidity, light and growing conditions.

Automation Sensors Biology
02 / Nick Cornell Studio

Photography, music + art.

Engineering is how I think about systems. Photography, music and art are different ways I explore ideas, structure, rhythm, composition, place and the things that catch my attention.

Nick Cornell artwork of Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken
2024 Congressional Art Competition • Regional Winner

Lackawanna Terminal, Reimagined

A view of Hoboken's historic Lackawanna Terminal reinterpreted through the visual language of an eighteenth-century Italian engraving. The piece was selected in New Jersey's 8th Congressional District and displayed at the U.S. Capitol.

Digital Art Architecture Hoboken
Nick Cornell standing beside a large black and white abstract artwork
Music

Here are a few of my music projects.

View Music Channel ↗
03 / Engineering

Designing for the real world.

“I’m interested in infrastructure that works with nature instead of pretending nature isn’t there.”

Growing up in Hoboken, New Jersey made flooding an everyday engineering problem rather than an abstract one. After Hurricane Sandy, I saw what happens when water, streets, buildings and infrastructure collide.

That experience developed into an interest in civil and construction engineering, drainage, resilient infrastructure, systems engineering and the use of digital tools to understand physical problems.

During my summer internship with the City of Southlake Engineering Department, I was exposed to plan review, AutoCAD, field inspections, drainage and stormwater projects, and the day-to-day work behind public infrastructure.

04 / Things I've Built

Software, systems, images + experiments.

01 Grandma.care Caregiving Platform
02 SurgeWatch.live Flood Intelligence
03 CornellBot.com AI Experiment
04 Mushroom Automation Sensors + Biology
05 Raspberry Pi Experiments Hardware + Coding
06 Photography + Art Visual Work
07 Music Production Logic / FL Studio / GarageBand
05 / About

One person. A lot of interests.

I attend Southlake Carroll High School in Texas. I play varsity soccer and club soccer with Dallas Texans, and outside school I spend a lot of time building projects, taking photographs, making digital art, producing music and experimenting with new technology.

I also attended Texas Boys State and participated in a Rotary Youth Exchange to Brazil. Both experiences strengthened my interest in public service, cities, culture and the way communities are built.

Engineering Civil, construction, systems, resilient infrastructure
Technology AI, web apps, Raspberry Pi, automation
Visual Work Photography, music and visual art
Outside the Studio Varsity soccer, club soccer, music production
06 / Contact

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