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Andrew Stiles is from Alexandria, Virginia, and he attends
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
in Blacksburg, Virginia. In Summer 2007 he was a junior majoring in Computer Engineering.
During the AMALTHEA Program he worked on improving the accuracy of a Wake-up-Word
speech recognition system by applying Hidden Markov models and Support Vector Machines.
Andrew plans to continue his studies and graduate in May 2009 with an honors degree in
Computer Engineering along with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Brandon D. Schmitt is a EE senior from Florida Institute of Technology
ocated in Melbourne, FL. Brandon joined FIT in the Fall of 2005 and the time of writing was is pursuing
a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. During the 2007 AMALTHEA Program Brandon focused on
developing testing tools, working with a commercial speech recognition engine, and developing two novel
methods of voice activity detection. Upon graduating from Florida Tech in the Spring of 2008, Brandon
will be continuing through his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering specializing in signal
processing.
Frederick "Tad" Gertz is a EE junior from Alfred University located in Alfred, NY.
In Summer 2007 he was in the Electrical Engineering program of the Kazou Inamori School of Engineering,
and was planning on attempting a minor in Glass Science or Photonics from the New York State College of
Ceramics at Alfred University. In the AMALTHEA program he participated in the development
of tools to help automate testing, error analysis, and implementation of a pitch detection algorithm.
Finally, he was interested in pursuing graduate studies and, in particular, a career in Photonics and
hoped very much to participate in graduate research in this area.
Maria Garcia Ayala was a 3rd year (in a 5-year undergraduate program) EE student from
Universidad de Puerto Rico in Mayaguez, PR. Since she was a little kid
she was curious about how things worked and always loved mathematics. During the summer experience in 2007
she helped in developing a new backward-adjusting algorithm to increase the accuracy of C4.5 tree classifiers.
She plans to finish her Bachelor’s degree in May 2009 and then continue on to graduate studies. Eventually,
she plans pursuing a doctoral degree.
Amy Hoover is a double-major Math & CS junior from University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL.
At the time of writing (Spring 2008) she is finishing up her Honors in the Major Thesis. Her current research
is related to her work she performed during the 2007 AMALTHEA experience, where she evolded Neural Networks
to generate interesting drum patterns using the NEAT framework.
Jason Beck, a CE senior from University of Central Florida in
Orlando, FL. During the 2007 AMALTHEA program he worked as the project software designer and coder
and implemented a unique backwards adjusting phase into the decision tree classifier C4.5. Jason will be
interning at Lockheed Martin while working to complete his Master’s degree at UCF in Spring of 2008.
Kelvin "Kel" A. Cardona Ruiz is a 3rd year (in a 5-year undergraduate program) CE student from
Universidad de Puerto Rico in Mayaguez, PR. He lives in I’m from Bayamón,
Puerto Rico. The AMALTHEA Program was his first research experience, during which he developed a MapReduce
simulator on top of GridSim. Kel plans to graduate in Spring of 2009, after which he will consider his
options for graduate school.
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Participant Students