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 PhD student researcher in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at CU Boulder with eight years of hands-on experience building machine learning systems and applied AI. Based in San Diego, he combines academic research—now at the SHINE Lab—with industry practice as a machine learning software engineer at Qualcomm and an internship at Argonne focused on AI at the edge for climate research. His background spans building efficient reasoning models (30% performance gains on logic tasks), embedding-first approaches to symbolic unification with PyTorch, and large-scale data analysis using Python and GIS tools. Comfortable teaching and translating complex ideas for diverse audiences, he has also delivered advanced CS instruction to students aged 8–18. Known for bridging cognitive science insights with practical ML engineering, he pursues research that targets interpretable, resource-conscious intelligence for real-world problems.
9 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 (6)
duplicate-detection5
ancestry3
taiga3
zeal2
graphing1
security1
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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