Full Stack + AI Engineer · Southeastern Louisiana University · In Progress
Semantic Search Engine
May 2025 – Present
A full-stack semantic PDF search and Q&A platform enabling contextual question answering from indexed PDF manuscripts.
Along the way
- Cosine similarity search over vector embeddings with semantic chunk alignment
- Dynamic in-PDF highlighting using react-pdf highlighter
- Local LLM generation fallback to reduce cloud costs
Technology
FastAPIFAISSSentenceTransformersPythonReactMistral / OllamaDocker