Washington Garcia
Systems Research Engineer at University of Dayton Research Institute
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolWashington Garcia is a Systems Research Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in the security and interpretability of machine learning systems and reinforcement learning agents. Currently at the University of Dayton Research Institute, he has a track record of academic and applied research across AFRL, Duke, Florida Institute for Cybersecurity, and Philips Healthcare, and is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Florida. His work spans practical attacks (query-efficient hard-label DNN attacks), emergent multi-agent communication, and formal threat modeling of ML-enabled authentication—bridging theoretical rigor with real-world system testing. Notably, as an undergraduate he co-developed a Q-Learning rover framework that significantly outperformed random baselines and won institutional recognition, reflecting a hands-on approach to research and experimentation. Based in Florida, he blends deep technical curiosity with experience in both government research labs and industry R&D.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Florida Atlantic UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Florida
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (27)
image-processing7
data-augmentation7
data-processing6
paddle6
audio-processing6
building-blocks6
python6
image-augmentation5
gpu5
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
pytorch5
nvidia-docker4
mxnet4
neural-network4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
w-garcia/RALVINN3.0
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 24 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
boxtheanophysicalproblemrover
w-garcia/video-caption.pytorch
Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 12 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 11 months
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