Alex Arnold
PhD Student Researcher at Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado - Boulder
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Arnold is a first-year PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder’s SHINE Lab, researching human-AI teaming, cognitive security, and cognition-inspired AI. With eight years of experience spanning industry and academia, he has contributed as a research intern at Argonne National Laboratory, as an undergraduate researcher at Lehigh, and as a research assistant at the University of Minnesota, complementing leadership and instructional roles at Juni Learning. He earned a BA in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Northwestern and is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at CU Boulder since 2024. Based in San Diego, he brings a rare blend of theoretical rigor and practical ML engineering sensibilities, including experience aligning ML systems with human cognition. His GitHub bio notes a background as a machine learning software engineer with Qualcomm, signaling strong industry-aligned ML skills. Alex is poised to translate cutting-edge cognitive AI research into scalable, secure human-AI collaboration solutions.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Northwestern UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
German
Github Skills (7)
duplicate-detection4
ancestry3
taiga3
zeal3
connections2
security1
graphing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alma2953/Network-Systems
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
alma2953/masp
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Masp donor document
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
ancestrymaspduplicate-detectionzealtaiga
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