About
Hey! I'm Curtis!
I'm a research software engineer at Sandia National Labs. I studied at Missouri S&T where I earned a master's and bachelor's degree in computer science.
Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn!
Experience
Research Software Engineer
Sandia National Laboratories
June 2023 - Present
Provide software engineering expertise to computational research projects to enhance the impact and sustainability of research within the lab.
Data Engineer Intern
Principal Financial Group
May 2022 - August 2022
Worked within the Customer Marketing Intelligence team to build repeatable solutions to create, deploy, host, and monitor machine learning models aimed at solving a variety of problems for our marketing and sales teams. Focused on using various services within AWS to make this a reality.
Computer Science Co-op
Hunter Engineering Company
January 2021 - August 2021
Member of the Research and Development team tasked with creating machine learning models, primarily for object detection. Work included assessing different computer vision methods, training and validating machine learning models and writing tools in Python to automate data ingestion for a SQL database.
Survivability of Autonomous Vehicles Research
Missouri S&T - SeNDeComp Research Group
June 2020 - December 2022
Conducted research on survivability of autonomous vehicles under cyber attack in collaboration with a team of undergraduate and graduate researchers. Simulation performed using the CARLA simulation environment and Autoware driving stack.
Student Tutor
East Central College Learning Center
January 2018 - May 2019
Working one-on-one with students to identify difficult concepts and reinforce skills to improve academic performance.
Honors and Awards
Scholarships
National Science Foundation S-STEM Scholarship, $10,000/yr, June 2020-August 2022(Competitive)
Garmin Miner Merit Scholarship, $8,000/yr, August 2021-May 2022(Competitive)
Missouri Bright Flight Scholarship, $3,000/yr, August 2017-May 2022
Awards
Missouri S&T PickHacks 2022, SmartBar, 2nd Place Physical Wellness Track
Missouri S&T PickHacks 2021, BrushHero, 1st Place Gaming Track, Best Hardware Hack
University of Missouri TigerHacks 2021, Cosmo flight simulator, Most Impactful Hack
Missouri S&T PickleHacks 2021, Pickliano, 1st Place
Missouri S&T ShamHacks 2018,VeteranDB, 5th Place
East Central College Outstanding Student in Mathematics Award, 2019
Projects
SmartBar
DIY Smart Barbell used to track statistics during weight lifting for PickHacks 2022, completed in 48 hours. Awarded 2nd place in Physical Wellness track.
Uses an ESP32 mounted in a 3D printed case to read a 9-axis IMU and barometric pressure sensor to infer movement and orientation data of the barbell. This data is then transmitted via Bluetooth.
Deep Reinforcement Learning with MuJoCo
A fun final project for my Mathematics of Machine Learning course.
Researched common model-free deep reinforcement learning algorithms and implemented them using PyTorch. Algorithms were then tested using the MuJoCo 2.1 environment to teach 3D models to walk.
Check out the code here!
ApexReader
A quick project using OpenCV and Google Tesseract OCR to read information from in-game screenshots.
Check out the code here!
Fleet Action
Strategic game inspired by Battleship, avoid incoming missiles to survive each round! Made with C# in Unity with a group of classmates for a project to practice software development techniques and tools.
Check out the code here!
Mini-R Language
A simple interpreted language based on R. Written in C++ using Flex and Bison.
Check out the code here!
