Peter Nguyen
AI Researcher at Stealth Startup
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Nguyen is an AI researcher at MIT CSAIL with 11 years of experience at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics, focused on closing the gap between high-level cognition and low-level planning and control. He earned a BS in Computer Science from UMass Amherst where he researched vision under Prof. Erik Learned-Miller and recently contributed to generative AI for driving simulation as a visiting researcher at MIT. Peter blends academic rigor with entrepreneurial drive—he co-founded an IoT agritech startup building automated irrigation systems and is currently a co-founder at a stealth startup. His background includes applied ML deployments for anomaly detection and building inertial navigation for high-altitude rocketry, reflecting a hands-on approach to sensor-driven autonomy. Based in Greater Boston, he’s pursuing further graduate study at UC Berkeley and brings a track record of turning sustainability and agriculture domain experience into practical robotics and AI solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstHigh School Diploma Physics Mathematics Economics, High School Diploma Physics Mathematics Economics at International School Ho Chi Minh City
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (86)
wake-on-lan10
barrage10
stan9
rna-seq9
hail9
bayesian-data-analysis9
python9
genomics9
phylogenetics9
gwas9
bioinformatics9
population-genetics9
bayesian9
salesforce8
api8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ptn24/urstream
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 years
ptn24/coursera-machine-learning
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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