Joe Driscoll
Graduate Research Assistant
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Driscoll is a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech with eight years of experience applying machine learning to networked, time-varying optimization, real-time signal processing, and multi-agent robotics. As a graduate research assistant he focuses on communication-enhanced deep and imitation learning for multi-agent path finding, blending theoretical optimization with practical, learned policies. He has hands-on embedded and software engineering experience spanning C/C++ and Python from internships and industry roles, and contributes to open-source scientific tooling—improving tests and QA for the widely used SciPy library. Comfortable moving between low-level embedded systems and high-level ML research, he brings a pragmatic approach to building reliable, reproducible experiments and systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Auburn University
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Github Skills (10)
testing10
scipy10
python10
numpy10
algorithms9
scientific-computing9
pytest7
maven6
maven-shade-plugin6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
scipy/scipy
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
SciPy library main repository
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 19 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Joe's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the testing framework for the SciPy library. They added new test cases specifically for the `pade` function, addressing integer and complex number inputs to ensure its functionality across different data types. Furthermore, the user fixed spacing issues in the test files. The user also made a fix related to the minkowski distance calculations.
scipypythonscientific-computing
jwd0023/juicy
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:257 commits, 7 PRs, 247 pushes in 3 months
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