Research and Development Intern -- Kitware
Summer 2021 | Remote
Contributed to a government-contracted project focusing on low-shot object detection.
I'm Zack, a PhD student at UMass Amherst, advised by Professor Ali Sarvghad in the HCI-VIS Lab; my current work focuses on data visualization accessibility and equity. I am also very interested in mentoring undergraduate research and teaching at a heavily-undergraduate university.
Before this, I completed a Bachelor of Science degree at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, double-majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics.
In my free time I enjoy playing board games and video games, watching anime, playing disc golf, and playing the euphonium.
Email: zwhile [AT] cs [DOT] umass [DOT] edu
Contributed to a government-contracted project focusing on low-shot object detection.
Carried out internal government-contracted research and development on two different projects, one focusing on object detection and the other focusing on object tracking. Utilized Kitware’s open-source VIAME and KWIVER projects to integrate state-of-the-art methods such as Cascade R-CNN (CVPR 2018) for object detection and SiamRPN++ (CVPR 2019) for object tracking.
Developed predictive and generative deep learning models that utilize proprietary geospatial data for commercial use. Worked with both imagery as well as numerical data, prototyping neural network architectures and evaluating performance on propriety datasets. Used Python and Keras for deep learning implementation, Prophet for time-series models
As an adjunct instructor, I was the one in charge of running the listed course, which includes giving lectures, offering office hours, creating course content, and grading course content. I also supervised a senior thesis in computer science.
As a teaching associate, I was the one in charge of running the listed course, which includes giving lectures, offering office hours, creating course content, grading course content, and directing TAs and UCAs.
As a teaching assistant, I worked to help the faculty instructor deliver class materials as effectively as possible. Responsibilities include offering office hours, grading work, and running discussion sections.