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Sammy Potter

Education

University of Rochester

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

  • (Nominated) Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
  • Best Space Themed App – DandyHacks 2021
  • Dean’s Scholarship (all semesters)

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Institute for the International Education of Students Abroad

    Publications

    M. Hasan, C. Ozel, S. Potter and E. Hoque, "SAPIEN: Affective Virtual Agents Powered by Large Language Models," in 2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2023 pp. 1‐3.

    Experience

    Researcher | AI Engineer

    Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence

    • Co‐developed KALEEM: a humanoid tutor that is personalized, adaptive, multimodal and available anytime, anywhere.
    • The system was premiered at the Global AI Summit 2024 organized by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
    • NDA – No further information available.

    Research Assistant

    University of Rochester Human Computer Interaction Lab

    • Developed and tested methods for synthetic data generation for hand tracking machine learning models using Unity.
    • Leveraged GPT‐4 and Unreal Engine 5 to develop a virtual chatbot for teaching, job interview and conversation practice.
    • Created an interactive full stack website for the chatbot using Flask on Amazon Web Services.

    Teaching Assistant

    University of Rochester | CSC 171: Intro to CS with Java

    • Led two 75-minute workshops of 12 students each per week.
    • Facilitated students to engage with course material and with each other in an interactive learning environment.
    • Produced a final research project aimed at improving the CS learning experience through virtual online exercises.

    Projects

    ThankYouEpicDB

    • Designed and implemented an index of 8,000+ images and videos for a ‘meme’ library, enabling semantic search.
    • Integrated AI‐based content analysis, storing results in an SQL database to enable seamless search and retrieval.
    • Developed front end website for querying the database using Next.js and ElasticSearch.

    Salendar: DandyHacks 2023

    • Developed a full‐stack application with Next.js and Flask enabling automatic course schedule calendar setup.
    • Utilized the Google Cloud and OpenAI API to streamline syllabus parsing and Google calender generation.

    Spotify Song Predictor: CSC 240: Data Mining

    • Performed data cleaning and feature selection on data from 30,000 songs over 15 attributes.
    • Trained a Decision Tree Classifier and a Gradient‐Boosted Tree Classifier in Python to classify songs as hits or flops.
    • Developed a front‐end to allow users to interact with and test our model’s performance.
    • Prepared and delivered a presentation on our results, winning ‘best presentation of the day.’

    Technical Skills

    • Languages: Java, Python, C, C#, SQL (Postgres), TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Swift
    • Frameworks React, Node.js, Next.js, Flask, Tailwind, SwiftUI
    • Tools: Git, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Neovim, Adobe Creative Suite, Unity, Unreal Engine 5, ElasticSearch