Detravious Brinkley
Ph.D. Student In Computer Science at Nex Cubed
Thomson, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolDetravious Brinkley is a Ph.D. student in computer science with eight years of hands-on research and engineering experience spanning time series, graph theory, and machine learning. He transitioned from MS work at USC and research at ISI—where he helped develop the TGN10+ framework and published in ACM IUI—into a GEM-sponsored Ph.D. at the University of Florida focused on graph methods. He brings applied industry experience from a data science internship at Colgate-Palmolive and early-stage investing as a venture scout at Nex Cubed, alongside entrepreneurial work with Catalyst Robotics. A former Marine, he couples disciplined leadership and mission focus with technical rigor, often building end-to-end pipelines and dashboards for real-world sensor and enterprise datasets. Beyond code, he hosts community-facing content and has created platforms that blend health, Black history, and civic engagement with technical storytelling. He is pursuing roles that bridge research and product—research scientist, ML engineer, computer vision developer, or data analyst—while grounded in a values-driven purpose.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Mathematics and Computer Science at Claflin University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
time-series-forecasting8
time-series6
python6
matplotlib6
machine-learning5
semantic-segmentation2
semantic2
segmentation2
progressive1
pytorch1
rendering1
scene1
computer-vision1
kitti1
terrain1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Brinkley97/applied_data_structures_and_algorithms
May 2023 - Dec 2024
USC Class: Analysis and Design of Algorithms
Contributions:9 PRs, 52 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
Brinkley97/TGN10
Aug 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:1 release, 11 PRs, 60 pushes in 8 months
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