Biography

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Embodied AI developer from rural New Hampshire currently living in Houston Texas living out my dream of building robots. Went from graduating high school with 30 students to graduating college with >10k students from Purdue University.

Interests: Embodied AI, UFC/MMA, 3D Model Generators, American Football, Autonomous Vehicles, Golf, & Video Games.

Previously:

  • ML Lead @ Purdue AIMM Lab creating an autonomous boat
  • Data & AI @ BDO Digital building ML & data driven solutions for clients,
  • Project Lead @ Maching Learning Purdue.

Contact Me: At any of the buttons on the left side of the page (Github, Email, LinkedIn, Youtube, Twitter)

Post-Grad Robotics Intern @ Persona AI

Houston, TX | May 25 - Aug 25

Grateful to join an early stage (pre-seed ~30 people) startup working on building humanoid robots for heavy industries. So far my focus has been on integrating hardware through SDKs into the teleoperation & manipulation stack along with hardware abstraction to speed up development timelines for ML infrastructure. I plan on working on locomotion via RL and whole-body teleoperation. Please reach me at nicholas@wade.dev if you are interested in joining or just want to talk about robotics!

B.S Computer Science @ Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN | Aug 21 - May 25

Data & AI Intern @ BDO Digital

Remote | Jun 23 - Dec 24 Worked full time 2 summers and part-time 3 semester at BDO Digital helping clients integrate artificial intelligence into their business. Project Categories Include:

  • Computer Vision
  • Large Language Models
  • RAG Chatbots
  • Manufacturing Automation
  • Data warehousing & integration
  • Various AI/ML demos in all areas for clients and internal projects

Provided me with a great introduction to software engineering as a profession and worked with a great group of people!

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