I’m Gabriel, an engineering student at Trinity College Dublin. I work across software, AI, robotics and physical product design. Building is how I learn best.

Open to Summer 2027 internships

Gabriel Paunica

This is what I’m working on currently

Front view of FlyBrain’s sourced brain and ventral nerve cord anatomy — FlyBrain — anatomical viewerExplore the project

Selected work

All projects

Content automation

December 2025 – July 2026

AI, software & automation

Built prototype

A livestream-clipping prototype with a working rolling buffer and formatted outputs, and an unresolved moment-selection problem.

FlyBrain

September 2026 – present

AI & neural simulation

Ongoing

An ongoing Python/PyTorch project with a learned 2D approach-and-stop controller and a separate 3D anatomical neural viewer.

Hearth

June 2026 – August 2026

Software, product & UX

Prototype

A mobile-app prototype for long-distance couples: a shared digital home, gentle partner signals, and small rituals that keep two people connected.

Vision-controlled drone

August 2026 – present

Robotics & computer vision

In development

An ongoing DJI Tello project combining laptop-based flight commands, live camera streaming and local computer vision.

A tricycle, built from scratch

December 2023 – October 2024

Mechanical & product design

Completed

A functional children’s tricycle designed around user measurements and built through CAD, metal fabrication and woodworking.

Education

Trinity College Dublin

2025–2029 · expected graduation

B.A.I. Engineering (Honours), NFQ Level 8.

First-class performance to date across modules.

Studies span programming, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, mechanics, and mathematics.

British School of Brussels

Graduated 2025

A-levels: Further Mathematics A*, Mathematics A*, Physics A.

Mathematics competitions

UKMT Silver Award, 2023 and 2024.
Purple Comet Mathematics Competition, 2nd in Belgium, 2024.

About

My starting point was mathematics, physics and making things with my hands. Engineering at Trinity has given me a way to connect that foundation to software, AI and robotics.

I’m interested in the whole system: how it works, how its parts fit together, and how someone will actually use it. My projects range from welded aluminium and mechanical design to neural simulations, agent workflows and app prototypes.

I use AI coding tools to support development, while defining the systems, integrating their parts, and testing the results. I’m still learning, and building is how I do that best.

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