Matthew Woodcock

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

• 3.96 GPA
• Engineering Honors Student
• Anthony J. Wood '87 and Susan D. Wood '89 President's Endowed Scholarship Recipient
• National Merit Scholarship Recipient
• Relevant Coursework: Differential Equations, Calculus 3, Linear Algebra, Circuit Theory

• Trained and evaluated robot-learning models on pick-and-place tasks using SO-101 robotic arms.
• Built a LeRobot Visualizer/GUI Wrapper to reduce repetitive command generation and inspect datasets, videos, models, and experiment runs.
• Trained models on an NVIDIA A100 cluster using SmolVLA, ACT, GR00T, and PI0.5 workflows.
• Developed environments and training conditions to improve robotic-arm performance.
• Used action chunking, leader/follower data collection, and deployment workflows for embodied policy evaluation.

• Researched and designed systems capable of autonomously finding vulnerabilities and generating patches.
• Placed 4th as a finalist team, finding 28 real-world vulnerabilities and patching 14.
• Presented work at DEF CON 33 and published a technical report to arXiv.
• Designed agentic solutions to experiment with RAG, few-shot prompting, and related LLM techniques.
• Evaluated models with custom benchmarks for measuring effectiveness on challenge tasks.

• Identified high-impact AI automation opportunities across legal, compliance, and knowledge management.
• Assessed AI use cases for operational efficiency, risk reduction, and implementation feasibility.
• Partnered with cross-functional teams to convert process bottlenecks into AI-assisted workflows.

• Researched 10+ automation opportunities to improve manufacturing capacity and quality by up to 200%.
• Walked semiconductor fabs and gained understanding of data center cooling and piping.
• Built hands-on experience with 50+ machines and improved connectivity of advanced equipment.
• Worked with tools including Stratus, Revit, and Power Apps.

• Collaborated with a team of 10+ engineers to compete in the VEXU Robotics Challenge.
• Designed autonomous routes and worked with front-end communication for controls.
• Worked with backend libraries on motor control to improve stability.