Michael Sandborn
Co-Founder at Athena AIC
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Sandborn is a Ph.D. computer scientist and co-founder with eight years of experience applying AI to systems security, cyber-physical systems, and finance—spanning patented anti-counterfeiting hardware, evasive malware analysis, and LLM-driven trading systems. His research-driven engineering blends AI-assisted binary reverse engineering for embedded platforms (including satellites) with design-space optimization for multi-terrain autonomous vehicles. He completed a Baseball-schooled undergraduate double major in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Vanderbilt and finished his Ph.D. there in 2024, co-advised by Drs. Jules White and Kevin Leach. Beyond research and startups, he communicates technical ideas as host of the GRASP Podcast and has a track record of shipping applied tools and prototypes across academia, industry, and assistive-tech nonprofits.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Jesuit High School of Tampa, FLDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
Spanish, English, Greek
Github Skills (29)
ros5
simulation4
corretto4
amazon4
mobile-application4
mimosa4
robotics-simulation4
openjdk3
gazebo-simulator3
robotics3
gazebosim3
python-scripts3
java3
ignition3
signature2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sandbornm/retinalVesselSegmentation
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
sandbornm/HardenDocker
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:63 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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