Guest Speakers
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Soren Kowalski
Software Developer at The John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Soren Kowalski spoke with AIWVU in February 2026 about applying AI to cybersecurity.
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Tricia Jamison
Gen AI Architect at Google Cloud Public Sector
Tricia Jamison spoke with AIWVU in October 2025 about her work at Google. Specifically, she offered an interesting glimpse into her work on TrackInspect, which is an application of Google’s AI for subway maintenance in New York.
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Mike Snodgrass
AI Specialist at Google
Mike Snodgrass spoke with AIWVU in October 2025 about vibe coding and how to do it well.
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Elliot Lennello
Senior Software Engineer at Leidos
Elliot Iannello spoke with AIWVU in September 2025 about his AI-kigai framework. We used this framework to discuss AI ethics by reflecting on AI and its impact on our lives.
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Jacob Tyo
AI Lead at Raft
AI lead at Raft. Dr. Tyo spoke with AIWVU in October 2024 about his work at Raft.
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Brianna Maze
Principal Machine Learning and Computer Vision Engineer at NextGen Federal Systems
In Fall 2023, Brianna Maze spoke with AIWVU about her work as Principal Machine Learning and Computer Vision Engineer at NextGen Federal Systems. She gave an in depth look at some of her work including research on deep learning based weather prediction, facial recognition in the wild, and model bias.
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Tom Devine
Computer Science Professor
Dr. Devine spoke with AIWVU about his PhD dissertation on detecting pulsars with semi-supervised learning on a distributed system. He walked us through the entire process from inception, to first steps, to the groundbreaking research used to detect the presence of pulsars from thousands of terabytes of data.
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Vito D'Orazio
WVU Data Science Professor
In February 2023 Dr. Vito D'Orazio spoke with club members about his work in Conflict Forecasting with machine learning systems.
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Blaise Arbogast
Data Scientist at Noblis
Data Scientist and WVU Alum, Blaise Arbogast came in to talk to the club about being a data scientist in a government contracting company. He spoke on the basics of AI and what steps members should take to pursue a career in data science.
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Gavin Hall
Senior Staff AI Scientist at Tesla
A Senior Staff AI Scientist at Tesla and WVU Alum, Gavin Hall spoke with club members about his experience creating an impacting energy optimizing neural network for the Fremont Tesla Gigafactory. His work was so successful that his algorithm is used at every Tesla Gigafactory in the world.