Matthew Woodcock

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

• 3.96 GPA
• Electrical Engineering Honors Student Ambassador
• 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 VLA policies using LeRobot and deployed to SO-101 for imitation learning manipulation tasks.
• Utilized action chunking to smooth movement and reduce unstable arm motion during rollout.
• Collected and constructed datasets with leader/follower environments.
• Developed workflows for SmolVLA, ACT, GR00T, and PI0.5.

• Researched and designed systems capable of autonomously finding vulnerabilities and generating patches.
• Placed 4th as a finalist team, finding 28 real-world vulnerabilities in codebases and patching 14.
• Presented work at DEFCON 33 and published a technical report to arXiv.
• Designed agentic solutions to experiment with RAG, effects of few-shot prompting, and similar LLM techniques.
• Evaluated models with custom benchmarks for measuring effectiveness on different tasks within the challenge.
• Detected real vulnerabilities in open-source projects following the AIxCC competition.

• Automated inventory management for AI initiatives within the compliance department.
• Implemented Power Automate flows saving 20+ labor-hours weekly.
• Wrote scripts and internal workflows to surface compliance risks and summarize initiative status.

• 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, improving connectivity of advanced equipment.
• Worked with a variety of tools including Stratus, Revit, and Power Apps.

• President of an organization, leading 5 executives, 18 staff, and 61 members.
• Fostered leadership opportunities, service work, and social connections for members and staff.
• Planned events, led meetings, and worked with advisors to ensure members had the best experience possible.

• 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.