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Spencer Karofsky

Boston,MA

Summary

CS/AI senior at Northeastern with track record of implementing state-of-the-art ML research (DALL·E 2, Transformers) from papers to production. Self-driven learner building complex AI systems outside coursework, with strong collaborative skills demonstrated through team robotics projects and internship success.

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience

Work History

Data Analyst Co-op

Combined Jewish Philanthropies
Boston, Massachusetts
08.2025 - Current
  • Analyzing data sets with SQL to identify trends and patterns for decision-making.
  • Building RAG chatbot to assist writers with automated research and content generation for company blog posts.

Software Engineer Intern

Wildlife Imaging Systems
Hinesburg, VT
05.2024 - 08.2024
  • Engineered a robust calibration pipeline by enhancing OpenCV’s calibrateCamera, boosting accuracy from 60% to 100%.
  • Developed precise time-sync techniques using computer vision and time-series data to sharpen 3D triangulation.
  • Executed comprehensive Monte Carlo simulations to rigorously assess pipeline reliability.

Personal Project

DALL·E 2 Text-to-Image Model (Personal Project)
Boston, Massachusetts
06.2025 - 08.2025
  • Built full text-to-image pipeline from paper: Transformer prior, diffusion decoder, CLIP integration
  • Deployed distributed training on AWS infrastructure with production-grade, tested codebase
  • Achieved successful image generation from text prompts after implementing custom preprocessing pipeline

Personal Project

Stock Correlation Tool (Personal Project)
Boston, MA
11.2024 - Current
  • Building a high-performance, GPU-accelerated analytics engine processing 20M+ correlations in under 5 minutes.
  • Visualizing complex stock patterns using advanced data wrangling and Matplotlib plots.

Personal Project

Machine Translation Transformer (Personal Project)
Boston, MA
05.2025 - 06.2025
  • Trained a 135M-parameter Transformer from scratch in PyTorch for English–Spanish translation.
  • Implemented all components, including self-attention, using basic PyTorch functions.
  • Achieved a 10.32 BLEU score after 8 hours of local training, demonstrating effective sequence generation.

Student in Graduate AI Course

Simulated Robotic Arm (Group Project)
Boston, MA
02.2025 - 04.2025
  • Programmed a reinforcement learning-powered robotic arm to autonomously sort warehouse boxes as part of a team of three other graduate students.
  • Trained a YOLOv8 model for fast, accurate object detection and segmentation using OpenCV.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science With AI Concentration

Northeastern University
Boston, MA
06-2026

Skills

  • Software development
  • Machine learning research
  • Data analysis
  • Computer vision
  • Python programming
  • Statistical modeling

Timeline

Data Analyst Co-op

Combined Jewish Philanthropies
08.2025 - Current

Personal Project

DALL·E 2 Text-to-Image Model (Personal Project)
06.2025 - 08.2025

Personal Project

Machine Translation Transformer (Personal Project)
05.2025 - 06.2025

Student in Graduate AI Course

Simulated Robotic Arm (Group Project)
02.2025 - 04.2025

Personal Project

Stock Correlation Tool (Personal Project)
11.2024 - Current

Software Engineer Intern

Wildlife Imaging Systems
05.2024 - 08.2024

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science With AI Concentration

Northeastern University

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