James Bocinsky

James Bocinsky

ECE M.S. at University of Florida

James Bocinsky

About

James Bocinsky is a software engineer at American Express who loves to develop. Specifically, James has a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering and works on machine learning and robotic systems. He is passionate for problem solving and software development.

Current Work

James develops software for American Express to drive robotics and automation within the company for various applications.

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Previous Work

James worked with Dr. Alina Zare as an Undergraduate and Graduate Research Assistant in the Machine Learning and Sensing Lab.

  • In this role James developed machine learning algorithms. He focused his efforts on developing a multiple target multiple instance target signature learning algorithm (MT-MI-ACE/SMF) to detect buried landmines for the Army. To develop these algorithms, James worked with Electromagnetic Induction and Ground Penetrating Radar data.

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James worked as an intern for Harris Corporation in 2016 and 2017.

  • At his first Harris internship, James developed message passing tools for the FAA. These tools were abstract, handling any type of message passed autonomously between airplanes and towers. He developed a Java threadpool executor to pass high throughput messages off to worker threads for processing.

  • At his second Harris internship, James worked on the T7 robot envisioned for EOD. He developed a complete multicast messaging protocol for their Hercules processors as well as the framework needed to support the onboard, smart battery CAN messages.

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Education

James has a history of success as a student. He graduated high school as valedictorian with a 4.4 GPA. He then took his motivation and success to the University of Florida and in 2017 graduated Cum Laude with a 3.76 GPA. Finally, James passed his M.S. thesis defense and graduated with a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, focused on Machine Learning in 2019 with a 3.79 GPA.

While at UF, James was a go-getter by partaking in various activities such as:

  • Inducting into Eta Kappa Nu (Computer Engineering Honor’s Society).

  • Collaborating with peers at UF hackathons.

  • Elected as an exec board member and player of the University of Florida club soccer program.

  • Constructing and teaching a 12 class machine learning course.

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