Aleksey Valouev

B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Relevant coursework: Operating Systems (A+), Machine Learning (A), Probability (A), Data Structures (A), Computer Architecture (A), Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (A)

• Selected to support instruction in concurrency, synchronization, virtual memory, file systems, and distributed systems

• Developed a flexible, multimodal, task-conditioned memory for long-horizon embodied navigation and VLA steering

• Built a multi-view vision transformer with temporal cross-attention for fine-grained object detection with PyTorch
• Deployed on 1 million satellite images for humanitarian debris analysis, increasing mean F1 score from 52% to 65%
• Composed weekly presentations of key findings and research directions for faculty and industry partners at DARPA

• Collaborated with a team of 4 to integrate neural networks into a simulator for computational optics and imaging
• Implemented neural-network based optical focus engineering for high-resolution extended depth microscopy
• Achieved a median MSSIM of 0.816 and PSNR of 10.38 dB versus 0.000 and 6.65 dB for pixel-wise optimization
• Authored and presented a paper at ICVISP: Implicitly Learned Neural Phase Functions for PSF Engineering

• Built Python, NLP, and web scraping pipelines to analyze thousands of posts from hundreds of short-seller accounts
• Prepared a report on language-based clustering of faculty research and presented findings at USC CETAFE conference

• Developed and managed a Google Chrome extension to help students manage their grades in a portable manner
• Spearheaded expansion to 40 different countries, with over 4,000 installs and over 1,000 regular weekly users

• Oversaw a team of 50+ students in the design, construction, and programming of a FIRST Robotics (FRC) robot
• Spearheaded competitive preparation and strategy, executing a year-long plan to recruit and train new members
• Guided the software subteam to the world championship for the first time since 2021 with a technical overhaul