Yvan Pierre Jr.

Providing software expertise in Navigation and Guidance Systems., specializing in the design development and testing of critical avionic systems for commercial and military flight operations.

- Utilizes Artificial Intelligence methodologies to identify and assess cybersecurity vulnerabilities, contributing to the enhancement of system resilience. - Developing a Machine Learning algorithm tailored for detecting potential vulnerability in an embedded environment that determines potential hardware attack and increase understanding of security risk. - Aggregating exemplar specifications, designs, and test benches optimized for detecting hardware trojans in microcontroller systems, facilitating the creation of a custom-trained transformer model tailored for this specific cybersecurity application.

- Developed Python SMS test for aircraft communication systems, ensuring comprehensive evaluation of weapon functions integration. - Translated legacy C codebase to Python, enhancing both code readability and performance. - Conducted rigorous validation testing across simulated real-world scenarios to guarantee seamless system operation.

Working to ensure underrepresented STEM students are knowledgable about research, internship and scholarship opportunities by helping to create and/or lead events, workshops or conferences. Whether its making flyers to spread the word or reaching out to get STEM speakers to lead a presentation and show students different paths and possibilities for their future.

- Developed cloud-based workflow utilizing Jetstream to advance veterinary diagnostic - Created Convolutional and Fully Convolution Neural Networks, using PyTorch, with focus of diagnosing broken bones in x-rays scans. - Engineered and configured medical imaging/segmentation workstation, integrating specialized software on the Jetstream platform. - Implemented a neural network using machine learning algorithms for image data sorting and identification - Presented results at the national PEARC19 conference (Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2019)