Max

Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering August 2022 – Present
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering | GPA: 3.63 August 2022 – May 2025
University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA
BA in Physics, BA in Computer Science | GPA: 3.85 August 2018 – May 2022

Willing to travel: 10 miles

Experience: Max T.
U.S. Citizen | Phone: (803) 348-4530 | E-Mail: max172910@gmail
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering August 2022 – Present
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering | GPA: 3.63 August 2022 – May 2025
University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA
BA in Physics, BA in Computer Science | GPA: 3.85 August 2018 – May 2022
Employment
Georgia Tech Dynamic Robotic Adaptive Technologies (DART) Lab Atlanta, GA
Graduate Research Assistant May 2025 - Present
• Benchmarked just-in-time vs. ahead-of-time motion planning algorithms in Julia on the single-board computers for real-time onboard planning applications.
• Designed object detector for landmark navigation purposes using a transformer architecture and public datasets.
• Explored explainable methods for long short-term memory (LSTM) models with the application towards motion planning
Georgia Tech College of Computing Atlanta, GA
Graduate Teaching Assistant for “CS 7641 Machine Learning” January 2025 – May 2025
• Collaborated with a teaching team to assist 800+ students
• Graded assignments reports, held weekly office hours, gave lectures on supervised & unsupervised machine learning techniques
Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate Researcher September 2020 – May 2022
• Performed Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations to look for Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) that could perform nitrogen backbonding, which have strong potential in nitrogen & methane separation and thus natural gas purification
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate Researcher June 2019 – August 2019
• Designed electrostatic mirror and magnetic lens for a multi-pass Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), and calculated their aberration coefficients using Munro’s Electron Beam Software (MEBS)
Publications
• L. Gustin, L. Xing, Max T. , R. Jin, W. Xie, “Electron Counts, Structural Stability, and Magnetism in BaCuSn2-Type YMxGe2 (M = Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, and Mn)”, J. Alloys & Compounds 741, 840 (2018).
• J. Brooks, G. L. Knapp, J. Yuan, C. G. Lowery, Max T. , B. E. Cadigan, S. Guo, D. S. Hussey, L. G. Butler, “Neutron Imaging of Laser Melted SS316 Test Objects with Spatially Resolved Small Angle Neutron Scattering”, J. Imaging 3, 58 (2017).
• X. Gui, T. R. Chang, T. Kong, Max T. , R. J. Cava, W. Xie, “Monoclinic 122-Type BaIr2Ge2 with a Channel Framework: A Structural Connection between Clathrate and Layered Compounds”, Materials 10, 818 (2017).
• Skills
• Programming Languages: Python, Java, C, SQL, Scheme, LaTeX, Mathematica, MatLab, LabView, and Julia
● Software & Tools: Git, das, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Pytorch, Hugging Face, OpenCV
Relevant Coursework
● Computer Science: Data Structures, Efficient Algorithms & Intractable Problems, Great Ideas in Computer Architecture