Vetted Research Assistants in the DFW Metroplex

“Robotics software engineer from Stanley Black & Decker’s autonomous team who built and deployed a ROS2-based model predictive control system for a commercial autonomous lawn mower, integrating real-time localization, Nav2 planning, and custom control under real-time constraints. Has hands-on field debugging experience (Foxglove, TF timing, covariance/noise tuning) to resolve issues that only appeared outside simulation, plus containerized deployment and CI/CD experience.”

“Growth creative/performance marketer from BYJU'S (India) who runs disciplined creative experimentation across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Notably shifted messaging from feature-led to outcome/testimonial-led creative, delivering CPA down 27%, ROAS up 35%, and +11% trial-to-paid conversion, and has experience leading a small creative pod (editors + writer) with a rapid-iteration production system.”

“Recent J&J intern who built a conversational RAG agent and led a shift from a monolithic model to a modular RAG workflow, cutting response time from several days to under a second by tackling data fragmentation, context retention, and embedding/latency optimization. Also worked on a large (7B-parameter) multimodal VQA pipeline for healthcare research and stays current via NeurIPS/ICLR and open-source contributions.”

“Robotics/AI candidate who built an AI-driven landmark location tool during a summer internship at Mobile Drive, combining YOLOv5 object detection with OpenStreetMap-based geolocation to handle dense, cluttered urban environments. Also researched deploying LLM-based agents on constrained hardware using quantization plus LoRA/continuous learning, improving accuracy from ~80% to ~92%, with an emphasis on production logging for reliability.”

“Robotics software engineer with a Master’s thesis building an end-to-end monocular-vision pick-and-place controller for construction use cases on TurtleBot3 + OpenManipulator, spanning synthetic data creation, transfer learning, simulation in Gazebo, and real-robot deployment. Leveraged ROS distributed architecture to run two heavy AI models across networked GPUs to achieve usable real-time performance, and has production CI/CD experience as a Senior Software Engineer in AI/analytics.”

“Built and productionized a MediCloud/Medicoud LLM microservice platform that lets clinicians query medical data in natural language, orchestrating multi-step RAG-style workflows with LangChain and evaluating/debugging with LangSmith. Delivered measurable gains (consistency ~70%→90% / +20%; latency ~2.0s→1.1s / -40%) by implementing structured prompts, fallback logic across multiple LLMs, hybrid retrieval tuning, and AWS Lambda performance optimizations (package size, async, caching).”