Jacob QuionJacob Quion. UC Berkeley ’30. Always Learning

Vetoing for Multi-Agentic Tasks.

"Vetoing" occurs when one AI agent rejects or overrides another AI agent in a collaborative, multi-agent task. This phenomenon exists in activities such as code deployment, writing verification, and any environment where multiple AI agents are collaborating with one another. My study explores the edge cases (the contours) in which vetoing can cause harmful effects in achieving user-defined goals.

Video Ads for Small Restaurants.

Most small restaurants don’t have the bandwidth or budget to make a video ad. But ads are important: they bring customers in the door. Plate Studio turns a Google Maps or Yelp link and a few dish photos into a complete, polished video ad. It pulls reviews and the menu, writes the script, then animates every dish and renders the whole video in one shot. Owners can adjust any scene by just telling Plate Studio what to change, then publish to YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook in one click.

Campus In Your Pocket (iOS).

Bear Route is an all-in-one navigation app for UC Berkeley. You can view the best dining halls, study spots, how crowded the community gym is, and what events are happening on campus. The app is iOS-native and collects 0 user data, keeping the app onboarding clean and straightforward. Future improvements will focus on local caching so the app can be used in areas with poor internet coverage (e.g. Main Stacks Basement, Dwinelle Hall).

Diagnosing Foreign LLM Prompts.

A "prompt injection" occurs when a malicious instruction infiltrates a LLM. This can lead to a breach in security, causing the model to access sensitive files, tools, or other privileged resources. SENTINEL reveals that training data used to reinforce diagnostic frameworks is inadequate against foreign attacks. In short, we need better approaches to foreign prompt injections.

FRC 7157’s 2025 Robot.

Ghidorah was designed for the 2025 FIRST Robotics Competition: REEFSCAPE. The goal was to place PVC pipes and large yoga balls onto tall poles and nets. The subsystems on the robot were tuned using PID control so the driver could score game pieces with ease. When the driver wasn’t controlling the robot, Ghidorah was able to “auto-align” to scoring positions with the help of computer vision, which allowed the robot to localize itself on the field.

This Very Website!!!

A single-page site built with the App Router and statically prerendered. No CMS, no database, no UI library. The waveform and the typing headline are both hand-rolled: the waveform is summed sine curves in inline SVG that loop seamlessly on pure CSS, and the headline is a small piece of JavaScript that types and deletes each phrase. My résumé is embedded as a PDF you can read without leaving the page, and the sticky header jumps straight to any section.