A student at Virginia Tech for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence development across many scientific fields.

James Agresto

A student at Virginia Tech for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence development across many scientific fields.

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A student at Virginia Tech for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence development across many scientific fields.

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Work Experience

Contract Instructional Content Developer at My Code Dragon
April 1, 2025 - September 1, 2025
Edited and QA'd 1,400+ programming lessons across Java, JavaScript, C++, C#, SQL, HTML/CSS using LLMs (ChatGPT); rewrote prompt-tuned outputs for 5th–12th grade readability and client style guides. Entered content into a Django-based CMS/database with data integrity and consistent schemas. Led coding bootcamps for young learners (ages 8–15), delivering hands-on sessions to ~45 students across 3 cohorts, covering Python fundamentals. Conducted User Acceptance Testing to validate system functionality and ensure alignment with business requirements.
Student Internship for Research at JMU CISE College
October 1, 2022 - May 1, 2025
Worked on NSF-funded project analyzing aerosol effects on urban lightning patterns across U.S. cities; presented Spatiotemporal-DBSCAN: A Density-Based Clustering Method for Analyzing Spatiotemporal Ground-Lighting Datasets at IPCCC 2024 and CAPWIC 2025. Processed and cleaned over 2 million lightning data points using Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn) across three cities. Proposed and implemented an algorithm reducing runtime from O(n^2) to O(n log n), improving processing time by 60% and increasing result accuracy by 45%. Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to integrate computational models with geospatial analysis.

Education

Master of Engineering in Computer Science Applications; Concentration: AI and Data Analytics at Virginia Tech
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2026
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science; Minor: General Music at James Madison University
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2025

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Industry Experience

Computers & Electronics, Software & Internet, Education