Marlan McInnes-Taylor

Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
2317 Speedway
Austin, TX 78712

Contact: marlan@cs.utexas.edu
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Background

I am currently an M.S. Candidate in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. I received B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Florida State University in 2021, and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Florida in 2009.

My research interests lie in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience. I am particularly interested in developing and improving computational models of human cognitive processes, with the goal of creating more explainable and generalizeable biologically inspired AI algorithms and techniques.

Research

• Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Topic: Automating Software Traceability Link Recovery utilizing Word Embeddings within a Shallow Neural Network
  • January 2020 - April 2021
  • Florida State University USER Lab
  • Supervisor: Dr. Chris Mills
• Honors in the Major Program
  • Topic: Skin Cancer Detection and Classification using an Artificial Neural Network
  • August 2019 - May 2020
  • Supervisors: Dr. Sonia Haiduc, Ms. Sharanya Jayaraman

Projects

• Programming Contest Suite: A Django + DOMjudge web application for hosting ICPC style programming contests at Florida State University.
• Author and maintainer