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AI/ML engineer and researcher working across computer vision, agentic AI, and time-series forecasting. Currently a Senior AI Engineer at Ford and a master's student at the University of Illinois, with a dual B.S.E. in Computer Science and Robotics from the University of Michigan.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

M.S. student — MONET Lab (computer vision, 360° video, AR/VR)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

B.S.E. Computer Science Engineering (AI/ML) & B.S.E. Robotics (Algorithms & Path-Planning) · Engineering Honors

Experience

Senior AI Engineer

Ford Motor Company — GDI&A

  • Build warranty AI services on GCP (Cloud Run, BigQuery, Vertex AI) for Ford's Extended Service Business.
  • Won Best Agentic Architecture (US & Europe) at Ford's Agathon hackathon with the Canonical Repair Profiler.

Automated Park Assist Intern — Simulation Team

Bosch, Cross Computing

  • Built a Python database parser with synthetic data generation, TF-IDF tokenization, and a GUI.
  • Developed a bounding-box auto-labeler for vehicle traces and height classification, replacing manual labeling.

Perot Jain Tech Lab (PJTL)

Utilidata

  • Built an EV-charger raw current/voltage collection and visualization tool.
  • Designed custom tagging/labeling for time-aligned ROS vehicle and external weather data.

Helpdesk & Consultant

UMich ITS — Advanced Research Computing

  • Support the Great Lakes HPC cluster; automate account/login provisioning with shell scripts and APIs.
  • Run CPU/GPU workloads via Slurm sbatch for research.

Research

AI & Complexity Lab — Dr. Alexander Rodríguez

University of Michigan

  • Time-series COVID-19 forecasting with Transformer, Autoformer, and Informer models.
  • Developing a Neural ODE framework for time-series modeling and forecasting.

Software Lead → Vice President → President

Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (MAAV)

  • Led the software team; onboarded and mentored new members.
  • Built an OpenCV/ViSP color-masking pipeline for drone localization and a Gazebo/ROS competition simulation.

NSF REU — ADWISE Lab, Dr. Kemal Akkaya

Florida International University

  • Built a GAN (TensorFlow) generating realistic UAV sensor data to fool classification systems, ~50% higher adversarial success.
  • Work published at the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing.

Secure & Intelligent Systems Lab — Dr. Yasin Yilmaz

University of South Florida

  • Developed hybrid U-Net models for semantic image segmentation; labeled and processed image data.

Kotov Lab — Dr. Nicholas Kotov

University of Michigan

  • ML models using nanoparticles as predictors for protein–protein complexes; chirality estimation via Osipov–Pickup–Dunmur indices and Hausdorff distance.

Skills

Languages
C/C++, Python, Bash, JavaScript, R
ML & CV
PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, OpenCV, ViSP
Models
CNNs, GANs, Transformers, Neural ODEs
Platforms
GCP (Cloud Run, BigQuery, Vertex AI), Linux, Slurm/HPC, Docker, ROS, Gazebo

Awards & Activities

  • UMich College of Engineering Honors Program
  • Google CS Research Mentorship Program
  • EAA Ray Aviation Scholarship · Private Pilot Certificate (in progress)
  • ACRA 2023 National Championship — Gold (Michigan Men's Rowing)