Kendric Hood
PhD Research Intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Kent, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKendric Hood is a PhD candidate and research intern with eight years of engineering experience bridging distributed systems, neuromorphic computing, and applied AI. He has led research at national labs and universities—producing publications on AI-driven monitoring for manufacturing and on using neuromorphic hardware to secure power grids—while advancing training and performance of spiking neural networks. Proficient in C++, Python, Ruby and DevOps tooling, he has built large-scale simulators and production-ready tools, including a 20k-line blockchain simulator and manufacturing ML and scheduling apps. Kendric combines hands-on systems programming with practical deployment experience in research and industrial settings, routinely moving prototypes into working testbeds. Based in Kent, Ohio, he brings a rare mix of low-level implementation skill and cutting-edge AI research, with a focus on fault-tolerance and time-sensitive sensor data.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Kent State UniversityTrade Schools, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, A, Trade Schools, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, A at Cuyahoga Valley Career Center
English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
112reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (34)
python9
perl-module8
blockchain8
algorithms8
peer-to-peer8
consensus7
numpy7
crud7
scientific-computing7
spike7
rest-api6
flask6
exchange6
rest6
python-requests6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
khood5/smartShards
Feb 2020 - Mar 2022
This is the implementation of smart shards. It is built with two parts a manger and a consensus algorithm. We use the implementation of PBFT in the sawtooth project. Our manager will organize PBFT into smart shards.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 96 pushes in 2 years 1 month
consensus
khood5/MLAudio
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:74 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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