Avery Horvath Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Florida, US

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• First hire of KEF Robotics, a Pittsburgh startup whose mission is to develop software to allow small drones to autonomously navigate and detect hazards in unexplored, GPS-denied environments
• Built and optimized a human detection & localization algorithm and a one-shot building identification algorithm, then successfully demonstrated these capabilities to customers at a live demo
• Lead technical work on 3 contracts that produced 3 more government contracts totaling $3M
• Researched & developed computer vision machine learning algorithms with no prior experience in the field and went on to lead KEF Robotics’ ML department
• Finished as the #1 US team in Lockheed Martin's 1st AIRR Alphapilot autonomous drone racing competition and #6 out of all 424 international teams that entered the competition
• Competed as the only woman out of all 9 finalist teams in the AIRR Alphapilot competition

• Served as a research assistant to Dr. Fabian Heitsch, a UNC physics professor
• Produced a machine learning algorithm in Python to represent a volatile dataset with the optimal number of Gaussian distributions
• Designed advanced image processing algorithms to create low pass filters for the position-velocity animations generated

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Contributed to autonomous flight efforts via developing computer vision software to locate landing pads in aerial footage
• Created a remote-controlled robot by interfacing a PS2 controller and a toy car and programmed its motion using Arduino
• Developed software containing an API between Python and Arduino to return quantitative measurements of the CubeRover's hardware functionality and used this to test the conditions at which the rover's range sensors will.
• Lead the trade study for the CubeRover's camera while working around strict thermal, mass, and resolution requirements

• Hold political discussions with 15-30 attendees encouraging people on all sides of the spectrum to voice their opinions
• Doubled average meeting size and maintained an 80% member return rate while working with a minimal budget
• Created and held elections for executive positions to help with marketing efforts and housekeeping tasks
• Organize weekly meetings and manage communication channels to update members on current events, upcoming rallies, and to send articles/videos explaining logical arguments for both sides of the topic for the week
• Working with ListenFirst and UNC’s Institute of Politics to organize larger events and host guest speakers

Dublin, Dublin, IE

• Designed, optimized, and implemented data migration for 2002-2017 MERRA-2 forecasting data from a MySQL, a relational database, to Cassandra, a non-relational database.
• Optimized migration scripts to decrease the total data insertion time from 26 years to 12 hours.
• Expanded the database from covering 4 countries to covering all of Europe adding more than 2 billion MERRA-2 forecasting values.
• Translated a C# MySQL parser to Python code to automate the reformatting of MERRA-2 data located in ascii files.
• Developed and pushed a web API to a docker image on a AWS lightsail instance to allow for get requests by clients.
• Moved the AWS web server from the US to Ireland to minimize load timings and improve search queries.

• Assigned a project by Dr. Joaquin Drut for a quantum mechanical study of fermions in an external harmonic potential constrained to two spatial dimensions.
• Manipulate data using python oriented analysis to display the correlation between many body interactions and two body interactions.
• Generate plots on my findings using Python, which will be published in a research journal.
• Requires very high level of proficiency in quantum mechanics, differential equations, and python.

• Lead guitarist and keyboardist of the 5-piece rock cover band
• Attended three hour rehearsals twice a week to prepare for a performance at the Local 506
• Maintained social media accounts such as Facebook and SoundCloud to promote performances

• Guitarist and Keyboardist of an alternative band that writes and record original songs
• Hire personnel for outsourcing tasks such as logo development and sound production
• Lead marketing efforts by maintaining social media accounts and handing out flyers
• Organize weekly meetings to ensure each member is up to date on the materialThis position teaches self-discipline, management skills, and leadership attributes.

Richmond, VA, US

• Created spreadsheet with data of S&P and NASDAQ companies using Python, Excel, and a web scraper with Yahoo Finance.
• Generated lists of bearish and bullish stocks for the Senior VP Financial Consultant for client recommendations.
• Top 5 NASDAQ bullish stock list generated average return rate of 28% 6 months after recommendation was given.

Charlotte, US

Charlotte, NC, US

• Generated and edited media content to promote collegiate athletic teams and the annual ACC tournament
• Worked on the production of a nationally aired ACC talk show in addition to aiding day to day operations

Atlanta, Georgia, US

B.S. In Physics & Astronomy (Astrophysics Option)

B.S. Physics & Astronomy, Physics

High School