CV · Charles O'Hanlon

Education

New York University, Courant Institute - M.S. in Computer Science (Expected May 2028)
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo - B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics (Mar 2026). Major GPA: 3.94; GPA: 3.86

Senior Research Assistant - UChicago, Argonne National Lab (Jun–Sep 2025)
- Advised by Dr. Silvio Rizzi; U.S. Dept. of Energy lab
- Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for implicit neural representations of 3D scientific volumes; +2–15 dB PSNR over SIREN/MLP baselines
Undergraduate Research Assistant - Ventura Lab, Cal Poly (Jan–Jun 2025)
- Advised by Prof. Johnathan Ventura; funded by the National Cancer Institute
- Action segmentation from monocular video; Mean Squared Error < 1 repetition vs. clinician annotations
Undergraduate Research Assistant - AI for Search & Rescue Lab, Cal Poly (Sep 2023–Dec 2024)
- Advised by Prof. Franz Kurfess; sponsored by Menlo Park Fire Protection District
- Multimodal location prediction from 1M+ missing person case dataset

ML Engineer Intern - LandingAI (Sep–Dec 2025)
- VLM attention diagnostics, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, and large-scale data distillation
ML Engineer Intern - FemtoAI (Jun–Sep 2023)
- Neural audio noise reduction; generative data augmentation; automated ML pipeline

KAN INRs: Kolmogorov-Arnold Neural Networks for Scientific Volumetric Implicit Neural Representations. Charles O'Hanlon. Learning on the Lawn, Argonne National Laboratory, Aug 2025.
Neural Networks for Missing Persons Location Prediction. Charles O'Hanlon, Brandon Kim, Ameer Arsala. National Missing and Unidentified Persons Conference, Apr 2024.

Teaching Assistant - CSC 480 Artificial Intelligence, Cal Poly (Sep–Dec 2025)
Curriculum Design Contributor - CSU AI Educational Innovations Challenge (Aug 2025–Present)