Abbie Petulante
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt University
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolAbbie Petulante is a Co-Founder and CTO with nine years of experience translating cutting-edge deep learning research into production-grade AI products and scientific tools. With a PhD in Astrophysics and a postdoc at Vanderbilt’s Data Science Institute, she has led diverse projects—from fine-tuning Whisper for gravitational wave detection to ViT and CNN systems for archaeological and bioacoustic tasks—always emphasizing the right architecture and evaluation strategy for the domain. As sole technical lead at COG Learning she built REED, an AI-powered dialogic reading app, designing the ML pipeline, fine-tuning LLMs for structured question generation, and running cloud infrastructure for an IRB pilot. Comfortable bridging research and product, she routinely mentors students and advises collaborators on practical ML deployment, bringing a rare blend of astrophysics rigor and hands-on product engineering to education and scientific applications.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at University of MarylandDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at Vanderbilt UniversityProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apetulante/Tutorials
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
apetulante/Paper-ML_DMOSubs
Jun 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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