Breanna (Bree) Shi
Bree Shi is a fourth year PhD student studying Bioinformatics with Minors in Machine Learning and Higher education. She holds many prestigious awards such as the following: The GEM Ph.D Engineering and Science Fellowship Issued by The National GEM Consortium, STEM Diversity PhD Fellowship Issued by Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity, GAANN Biology Fellowship Issued by U.S. Department of Education. Before becoming a PhD student at Georgia Tech, Bree earned her master’s in Mathematics from University of Minnesota where she earned Diversity of Views and Experiences Fellowship and her Mathematics BS degree at Stetson University.
Charlotte Alexander, J.D.
Charlotte S. Alexander is Professor of Law and Ethics at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. Her scholarship focuses on the efficiency, transparency, and openness of the court system, with a particular interest in civil litigation. She uses empirical and computational methods to process large quantities of legal data and uncover patterns in case filing, progress, and resolution. She has an additional research interest in employment law and litigation.
Alexander received her B.A. from Columbia University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was elected president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. After law school, she clerked for Judge Nancy Gertner of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and then served as a Skadden Fellow and senior staff attorney at Georgia Legal Services’ Farmworker Rights Division.
Alexander’s work is published or forthcoming in a wide variety of peer reviewed and law journals, including Science, the N.Y.U. Law Review, Texas Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, American Business Law Journal, Industrial Relations, Yale Journal of Law and Technology, and the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor, and private foundations. In 2023, she worked as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar with the Justice Innovation Lab of the National Judicial Training College in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on projects involving court delays and access to justice.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.