Angel Wheelwright

Research Assistant

Dr. Ng's Lab at BYU•  September 2023 - Present

· Compiling research on mathematical equation recognition and optical character recognition in order to improve efficiency and accuracy · Planning and architecting model for typographical mathematical formula registration and translation to tree-structured language for use in a question-answering recommender system

SOCHE Intern

Air Force Research Laboratory•  May 2021 - August 2023

· Brought our online competition back on schedule by fixing errors present in the game environment and testing the environment with baseline agents · Implemented and modified image translation algorithms and generated images replicating different sensor signals using GANs · Created infographics, LaTeX paper templates, wiki page templates, and assisted in creating competition websites for object classification as well as survey question forms · Taught 4 training sessions for our work wiki platform, GitLab, and VSCode · Modified, debugged, refactored, and ran a series of algorithms designed to make feature keypoints and target image chips from multiple sensor types using machine learning techniques and parallelization with approximately 7x speedup over the original state of the code and heightened accuracy · Coordinated with 9 individual teams periodically while leading my own team’s research project

Sponsor Liaison

17 Grapes Business Consulting•  January 2020 - April 2020

· Inspected and identified critical issues with a prototype database platform · Arranged 15+ meetings between our team and our sponsors · Compiled a report with recommendations for features to add in order to improve the stability and usability of our sponsor’s platform