Summary
Andrew Winnicki is a doctoral student in physics at Caltech with eight years of interdisciplinary experience bridging experimental research and software engineering. He has held research roles at MIT and Harvard and brings practical machine learning and robotics experience from internships and student leadership, including leading Harvard’s robotics club. Equally at home writing code and running lab experiments, he blends a strong mathematics and physics foundation from Harvard with hands-on ML work at PlayStation and software engineering in student ventures. His background includes long-term research stints from cancer center projects to university labs, reflecting an aptitude for translating complex theory into reproducible systems. Based in the United States, he combines academic rigor with a developer’s curiosity—his GitHub tagline, “Well, I like programming,” hints at a pragmatic, code-first approach to problem solving. Colleagues describe him as a proactive collaborator who moves quickly between research questions and deployable tools.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Punahou School
Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Physics at Harvard University
California Institute of Technology
English, French, c/c++