Hi, I'm Zachary

PhD Student

Improving AI by utilizing existing intelligence in nature.

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About Me

My introduction

I am a PhD student in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience at Indiana University. I work in the Building a Mind Lab, uncovering how AI models operate in embodied contexts in comparison to natural intelligence and unifying the cognition sciences under a single framework.

04+ Years experience
in Industry
04+ Years experience
in Research

Skills

My technical level

AI/ML

3 years

PyTorch

70%

OpenAI Gym (now Gymnasium)

85%

Stable Baselines 3

70%

Unity ML-Agents

70%

Mathematical Modeling

3 years

Dynamical Systems Theory (Mathematica/Dynamica)

70%

Graph Theory (NetworkX)

90%

NumPy

90%

Stoichiometry (Tellurium/Antimony)

60%

Software Engineering

7 years

Git

90%

Shell Scripting (bash, zsh, etc.)

90%

Linux

80%

Kubernetes

60%

Data Analytics

10 years

R

70%

Matplotlib

75%

Pandas

65%

Qualification

My personal journey
Education
Work

PhD in Cognitive Science & Neuroscience

Indiana University Bloomington
2021 - Present

B.S. in Psychology, Minor in Computer Science

Xavier University of Louisiana
2013 - 2017

Research Assistant

Indiana University Bloomington
2023 - Present

Research Assistant

Indiana University Bloomington
2021 - Present

Software Engineer

IBM
2017 - 2021

Research Assistant

Dartmouth College
2016

Research Assistant

Xavier University of Louisiana
2014 - 2017

Portfolio

Most recent work
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Newborn Embodied Turing Test

Benchmarking Virtual Agents in Controlled-Rearing Conditions

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Spatial Embedded Edge Model

A Model for Comparison to the C. Elegans Neural Network

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Dynamical Analysis of Homeostatic Cellular Topologies

An online tool for understanding and manipulating the population dynamics of cellular lineages.

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IBM Cloud Event Management

A website and mobile app for tracking, managing, and alerting to server events for DevOps.

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