Larry Pyeatt
Associate Professor
Piedmont, South Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolLarry Pyeatt is an associate professor and researcher with over 25 years in academia and 13 years at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology focused on probabilistic AI, robotics, and reinforcement learning for partially observable, uncertain, and non-stationary environments. He blends theoretical work on POMDPs and function approximation with practical systems—mobile robot navigation, real-time embedded control, and even machine learning–driven sedation control in surgery. A seasoned educator and graduate advisor, he has a track record of growing and improving graduate programs and mentoring MS/PhD research. His background in embedded control and industry roles informs a pragmatic approach to deploying robust AI in constrained, safety-critical settings.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Texas Tech UniversityDoctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science at Colorado State University
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Github Skills (30)
linux10
ros10
gentoo9
okta9
client-certificate8
tikz8
paloaltonetworks8
ebnf7
openconnect7
authentication7
latex7
ebuild7
azure6
yubikey6
python6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pyeatt/ebnf2tikz
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
It draws pretty pictures of language syntax. Specifically, it is an optimizing compiler to convert (annotated) Extended Backus–Naur Form (EBNF) to railroad diagrams expressed as LaTeX TikZ commands.
Contributions:3 releases, 136 commits, 14 PRs in 11 months
compilerebnflatextikz
pyeatt/SDSMT_thesis
Aug 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 42 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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