Henry Smialowicz

My Story

As a Computer Science student at the University of Virginia, I've immersed myself in AI/ML research, full-stack development, and robotics engineering, working on projects that process millions of data points and impact real-world applications.

Goals & Values

I'm committed to building scalable solutions that transform data into actionable insights, with a focus on end-to-end development and continuous learning.

Henry Smialowicz

Relevant Experience

Software Engineer Intern

SkyDirect • Arlington, VA

Winter 2025

• Architected a scalable data pipeline using Python, BeautifulSoup, and Docker to aggregate and normalize drone activity data from 40+ sources into Firebase, utilizing MD5 hashing for O(1) deduplication.
• Engineered an AI-driven system using Llama 3.2 to automate 100% of metadata tagging and relevance scoring, eliminating manual oversight and reducing preprocessing time by 80%.

AI/ML Researcher

University of Virginia Rice Labs

Fall 2025

Built a large-scale benchmark processing >1M sports time-series data points to assess and improve large language models' predictive accuracy on numerical sequence forecasting tasks. Applied knowledge distillation and reinforcement learning techniques to ensemble models, increasing predictive accuracy by 10% on held-out time-series validation sets.

Tech Lead

Biomimicry and Underwater Robotics Submersible Team (BURST) | UVA

Fall 2025

Tech Lead for a 20+ member team building ROS-based autonomy software for underwater submersible competitions; oversaw sprints, code reviews, and delivered a navigation stack integrated with computer vision. Optimized detection and navigation pipeline, reduced navigation error rate by 30%, and increased mission success rate in competition scenarios.

Teaching Assistant

Data Structures and Algorithms, University of Virginia

Fall 2025

Ran weekly labs and office hours for 200+ students; created 10+ lab exercises and clarified recursion/concurrency concepts that improved average lab scores by 28%.

Projects

Breast Cancer Classification with Deep Learning

Built and validated a CNN in Keras to classify 277K histopathology image patches of breast tissue with 85% accuracy, constructing and analyzing a confusion matrix for performance evaluation. Engineered a large-scale IDC image dataset by preprocessing and programmatically splitting 277K 50×50 patches into 80/10/10 training, validation, and testing subsets using Python.

Python Keras Deep Learning CNN Computer Vision

C4K Education Web Application

Collaborated as a freelance developer closely with a team of 5 to develop and launch a full-stack published web application utilizing HTML, JavaScript, CSS, React, and Airtable API integration. Reconciled industry design constraints while providing a full engineering design and prototyping report. Optimized software flow to account for 100s of users being C4K education students with sleek UI and data cleaning.

React JavaScript HTML CSS Airtable API Full-Stack

Skills

Programming Languages

Python
Java
JavaScript
C/C++
TypeScript
C#

Frameworks & Libraries

React Node.js Pandas SciKit-Learn PyTorch TensorFlow NumPy

Tools & Technologies

Git AWS Visual Studio Code Linux SQL ROS HTML CSS

Core Competencies

Agile Development Communication Problem-Solving End-to-End Development Machine Learning Data Engineering Full-Stack Development

Education

B.S. Computer Science Major and Systems Engineering Minor

University of Virginia, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Fall 2024 - Present

GPA: 3.75/4.0

Relevant Coursework: Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Systems and Org., Discrete Math and Theory

Certifications

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

AWS

Certified
AWS Cloud Practitioner Certificate

Get In Touch

I'm always open to discussing new opportunities, interesting projects, or just having a conversation about technology.

Arlington, VA | 703-307-2897

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