Summary
Keith Mills is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at LSU with nine years of experience bridging academic research and industry practice in efficient, automated deep learning. He completed a PhD in Software Engineering and Intelligent Systems at the University of Alberta, where his award-winning thesis on automated DNN design via quantifiable data science won the George Walker Award. His work focuses on neural architecture search, model compression, and graph representation learning with applications in computer vision and generative AI, informed by a long research internship at Huawei HiSilicon. Keith maintains reproducible graduate code on GitHub (Ascend-Research), signaling a commitment to open, usable research artifacts. Based in Baton Rouge, he combines rigorous academic training (4.0 GPA graduate record) with hands-on system building dating back to CubeSAT software during his undergraduate years.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD., Computer Software Engineering, 4.0/4.0, PhD., Computer Software Engineering, 4.0/4.0 at Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta
First Year Common Core, ENGINEERING, First Year Common Core, ENGINEERING at Keyano College
English, French