Adam Thomas
My name is Adam Thomas! I grew up in Falls Church, VA, and attending undergrad at Georgia Tech studying Aerospace Engineering. After College, I got a job doing Attitude Control in Los Angeles, California. This past year, I switched roles to become a Flight software engineer, where I am primarily in charge of writing algorithms and tools to execute payload functionality and communicate between hardware units, as well as integrate units. I am currently on the Cichlid CV team, working on the hybrid data collection pipeline and a cross-species identification model. In my free time I love playing volleyball and surfing!
Alejandro Gomez
I’m Ale and I’m working on my Master’s of Science in Computer Science. I’m excited to work with my team on the NLP Sentencias project!
Ayush Parikh
Ayush is an OMSCS student pursuing the ML specialization. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2021 with a degree in Computer Science and minors in Math, Data Science, and Entrepreneurship. While at Penn, Ayush co-authored 2 journal publications through the Vojvodic computational chemistry lab. He was also awarded the Littlejohn Summer Research Fellowship as well as the Norman Gross Award for his senior design project, StockSense. Ayush currently works as a backend software engineer at Microsoft and lives in the Seattle area. As part of HAAG, Ayush is working on 2 projects. The first project is a collaboration with Dr. Stroud’s biology research group to study lizard evolution. Ayush is developing an ML-powered image processing and landmarking pipeline for this project. For the second project, he is working on the higher education research team studying community outreach programs and how to make large, online research groups more effective. In his free time, Ayush loves to play piano, run, and cheer on the Yankees, Knicks, and Giants as he is originally from NJ.
Jacob Dallaire
Jacob holds a B.Cs from Carleton university and is working towards his M.Cs in computational perception and robotics. He works for the Canadian Federal government performing risk profiling. In his personal time Jacob spends his times in the mountains hiking or snowboarding.
Kailey Cozart
My name is Kailey Cozart, and I am working on obtaining my master’s degree in computer science with a concentration in machine learning via the project/research option. I have an undergraduate computer science degree from the University of Washington Tacoma. I am a part of the Cichlid CV team, and have also been a part of the Higher Education team. In my free time, I enjoy hiking with my daughter and husband, gymnastics, and photography.
Karol Gutierrez
Karol is a Master’s student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, specializing in Machine Learning. A native of Mexico, he studied Computer Science and Technology for his Bachelor’s degree at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Karol currently works as a software engineer for a major tech company, specializing in cloud databases. Outside of academics, he is passionate about swimming, learning languages and trying new things.
Mercedes Quintana
Currently pursuing a master’s degree in the OMSCS program, Mercedes Quintana is transitioning from a classical musician to the field of computer science. She is excited to be a HAAG researcher working in Dr. Stroud’s lab where she will be working with computer vision and machine learning techniques to make scientists’ lives a little easier. In her free time, she enjoys playing music, urban wandering and reading.
Michael Bock
My name is Michael Bock and I am an OMSCS student pursuing the Machine Learning Specialization. I hold a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and I’m a computer vision researcher at Lockheed Martin. Before that, I focused on creating perception and data collection systems for cars and lighter than air vehicles. I’m looking forward to being part of the NLP Summarization team.
Michael Falter
I am an OMSCS student currently working as a software engineer in the aerospace industry in Florida. I’m specializing in machine learning and am excited to be contributing to HAAG!
Philip Woolley
Philip Woolley is a software engineer specializing in data engineering and machine learning for a medical device company. He is pursuing his master’s degree in Computer Science through the OMSCS program. He is working on a project for automated segmentation of lizard images.
Romouald Dombrovski
Roman Dombrovski is a full-stack engineer and technical lead at Beanfield, and currently a part-time masters student in Computer science at Georgia Tech. With a background in Chemistry, Roman brings a unique blend of scientific analytical thinking to tackle complex engineering problems. As a technical lead, he has led his team to developing scalable and efficient software to drive business growth within the competitive telecom market. He often finds time to lecture at Seneca college in Computer science and Bioinformatics. In his free time, Roman enjoys reading science fiction novels, playing volleyball and snowboarding.
Ruiqing Wang
I am in my 8th coursed in OMSCS. I am a biochemical graduate student from New Orleans. I am very interested in biology related computer vision project.
Thomas Orth
Thomas is a Senior ML engineer at Lockheed Martin, focusing on Computer Vision problems. As a second semester research, Thomas will be researching and applying summarization methods to legal documents.
Thuan Nguyen
Hi y’all, I’m excited to put my deep learning knowledge to practice with the Cichlid CV project this semester. I can still remember the first “wow” moment when I trained my first MNIST neural network and was in awe: “how could it do that?” I have had many such “wow” moments since!
My career path has been, well, dotted with “highly non-linear activations” 😀 I did my undergrad in New York, then worked in finance and in cybersecurity audit there for a decade in total. Then I moved back to Vietnam to be a journalist, covering world news. Now I teach math and study CS, returning to these passions from high school. It’s a pleasure to meet you all!
In my free time, I love to listen to public radio podcasts from NPR or BBC, listen to audiobooks, practice some Beatles songs on a guitar, or coax my two cats into some playful wrestling.
Victor Fernandez
Fueled by a love for coding and an endless curiosity for AI, this Software Engineer has been on an exciting adventure through the world of Data & AI and cloud technologies. From designing cloud solutions that hum with efficiency to smoothing out CI/CD pipelines and helping microservices architectures level up, each project has been a new chapter in the journey. Along the way, they’ve tackled challenges in AI and machine learning, creating everything from trading models to computer vision systems and mobile apps. Now, the adventure continues at Georgia Tech, where they’re diving into a Master’s in Computer Science with a focus on AI and Robotics, all while keeping an eye on what’s next in the ever-evolving tech landscape—because the best stories are the ones still waiting to be written.
Vikas Agarwal
With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and consulting, I am a seasoned professional specializing in SAP BTP, SAP Datasphere/Analytics, Oracle, DB2 & SAP HANA DB, AWS & Azure for SAP. Currently, I serve as a Functional Consultant for Financial Systems & Global Reporting at Align Technology Inc., where I lead SAP Datasphere implementation and SAP Infrastructure migration to GCP Cloud and drive strategic initiatives to enhance SAP servers and Business process performance.
Vy Nguyen
Hi! My name is Vy Nguyen. I grew up in the south of Vietnam and came to the U.S. (Seattle, WA) eight years ago. I attended the University of Washington for my undergraduate study, majoring in Environmental Health. Afterward, I worked as an Environmental Health Specialist in a county district, then as a Medical Assistant in a local hospital. Over the last two years, I decided to transition my career into tech, pursuing a Master’s at Georgia Tech. I’m halfway through the program now and currently involved in the NFHM project, with my main responsibility focused on the frontend. I seek to learn and collaborate with other parts of the project as well. I am also taking Computer Networks course in this semester. Outside of school, I’m helping with my family’s business and taking care of my 1.5-year-old son. My hobbies include drawing, walking with my son, and hanging out with my husband and son to explore new restaurants and coffee shops.
Y Dang
My name is Y Dang (please call me Eve) , and I work as Systems Engineer from Lafayette, Louisiana. I have been passionate about robotics and AI research since undergraduate, and I want to enhance my knowledge by pursuing Master’s degree in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. I look forward to working with other HAAG researchers!
Yoonha Kim
Software Engineer at Precision Point Diagnostics
Webmaster in a Higher Education research team
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Auburn University
Experienced in software development, web development, and diagnostics software
Focused on creating robust, efficient, and user-friendly solutions