Alec Kerrigan
Research Assistant at UCF Center for Research in Computer Vision
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Kerrigan is a research-focused computer scientist with eight years of hands-on experience in machine learning, computer vision, and AI education. As a Research Assistant at UCF's Center for Research in Computer Vision he has advanced zero-shot object detection and contributed to high-performing models for NIST's ActEV competition. His background spans driver behavior modeling with evolving neural networks, NLP meeting-summarization, and deep reinforcement learning for network control—work that produced a published undergraduate thesis and measurable performance gains. Alec pairs experimental research with practical engineering, having optimized C++ training code for parallel clusters and improved satellite data transfer speeds during a CubeSat internship. He’s passionate about mentoring undergraduates through AI@UCF, creating tutorials and lessons to lower the barrier to entry for new AI practitioners while pursuing graduate-level research.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA, Computer Programming, Associate of Arts - AA, Computer Programming at Palm Beach State CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (16)
recurrent-neural-networks9
convolutional-neural-networks9
kaggle8
classification8
computer-vision6
pytorch6
fundamentals6
nodejs6
machine-learning6
react6
data-science5
javascript5
raspberry-pi3
discord-bot3
explore2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Eye-Spy/eye-spy
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
AHKerrigan/Knightroko
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
Simple, plugin-oriented Discord bot from scratch
Contributions:53 pushes in 1 year 10 months
discord-bot
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