Andrew Mendez
Research Assistant at University of Maryland
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Mendez is a research-focused machine learning engineer with 12 years of experience applying deep learning and computer vision to domains spanning defense, autonomous vehicles, bio-pharma, and augmented reality. He combines dual MS degrees from Cornell Tech and Technion and a Stanford AI certificate with hands-on production work building distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, and real-time mobile segmentation models. At companies from Clarifai and Determined AI (now HPE) to CACI, he’s bridged research and engineering to deliver end-to-end ML systems for high-stakes applications. His background in HCI and AR—dating back to MIT Media Lab projects—informs a pragmatic approach to human-centered model design and real-time inference. Based in Rockville, MD, he’s equally comfortable prototyping research ideas and hardening them for production-scale distributed training. A less obvious strength is his track record of reducing operational costs through infrastructure automation and efficient on-device model design.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science (Dual Degree with Cornell Tech) Applied Information Science, Masters of Science (Dual Degree with Cornell Tech) Applied Information Science at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at University of Central FloridaMasters of Information Science Connective Media, Masters of Information Science Connective Media at Cornell TechGraduate Certificate Artificial Intelligence, Graduate Certificate Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
Github Skills (137)
python10
image-processing10
cvxpy10
deep-learning10
instance-segmentation10
tflite10
autonomous-driving10
yolov510
robotics10
animation10
onnx10
scene-text10
localization10
lstm10
optical-character-recognition10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
interactivetech/Hand-Sign-Recognition-CoreML
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
interactivetech/BayesianCNN-SGHMC
Dec 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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