Zachary Chavis
Graduate Research Assistant
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Chavis is a PhD candidate and graduate research assistant at the University of Minnesota with six years of experience building deep learning, 3D computer vision, graphics, and robotics systems. He combines academic research with industry exposure from a Meta AI research internship and hands-on engineering in medical imaging, where he developed C++ frameworks for 3D implant visualization and AI-driven keypoint integration. His work spans from real-time RGB-D point cloud systems for robot navigation to animation and planning, bridging perception and control. Comfortable across modern ML stacks and low-level geometry/math libraries, he excels at turning research prototypes into usable software. Based in the Twin Cities, he brings both teaching and mentoring experience from tutoring and undergraduate research roles, and a demonstrated knack for applying vision research to real-world, safety-critical domains.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Computer Science, Honors, Associate’s Degree, Computer Science, Honors at Anoka Ramsey Community CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of MinnesotaUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (13)
simulator10
deep-reinforcement-learning9
robotics9
computer-vision9
reinforcement-learning8
python8
modular7
ai7
simulation7
deep-learning7
machine-learning6
artificial-intelligence6
high-performance5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zachavis/future-localization
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:45 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
zachavis/realsense
Jul 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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