Computer Engineer with Electrical Engineering maste coursework

Anthony Odvina

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Texas A&M University – Kingsville, Kingsville, TX May 2026 Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering; Minors in MathemaNcs & Computer Science GPA: 3.42 Graduate Coursework in Electrical Engineering (Fast Track M.S) Graduate GPA: 4.00 Relevant Coursework: Advanced Computer Architecture, Embedded System Design, Digital Logic Design Professional Experience

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER – DR. NEKOVEI May 2025 – August 2025 Op:cal Emission Modeling of Heterojunc:on Bipolar Transistors (HBTs) using Silvaco ATLAS (TCAD)

• Ran 70+ bias sweep simulaNons to characterize electrical & opNcal performance of a quantum-well HBT.

• Generated emission spectra with 100 wavelength samples (0.1–0.9 μm) to quanNfy photon distribuNon.

• Resolved convergence errors at high forward bias, improving reliability of opNcal spectrum generaNon by 17%. UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT – DR. GOYAL August 2024 – May 2025 NSF CISE-MSI Research: Cyber-Resilient 5G Virtual Power System for Growing Energy Demand

• Upgraded data throughput & logging efficiency by 30% in virtual power plant simulaNons.

• Collaborated on analysis of 5G-integrated PV systems to improve power response & fault resilience by 20%.

• Deployed 3 Dockerized models via gRPC for real-Nme SCADA inference.

• Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper published in IEEE Access on cyber-resilient 5G virtual power systems & ML- based intrusion detecNon.

NASA MUREP PEMS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER – DR. MISHRA July 2024 – August 2024 Machine Learning (ML) Techniques for US Drought Forecas:ng

• Developed 3 ML drought predicNon models using data from NASA, Kaggle, & the U.S. Drought Monitor.

• Enhanced model accuracy by 15% through advanced hyperparameter tuning techniques.

• Achieved over 90% in F1, MCC, Recall, & Precision through feature extracNon opNmizaNon. Projects

Distributed Kubernetes Compu&ng Cluster – Personal Project May 2025 – Ongoing

• Built a 10+ node distributed MicroK8s cluster uNlizing Ubuntu Server, connected via a dedicated router & switch.

• Deployed container workloads across 10+ physical compute nodes, validaNng distributed communicaNon.

• Configured staNc DHCP reservaNons & MicroK8s networking for reliable cluster discovery & communicaNon. FPGA-Accelerated ML Phishing Detec&on – Senior Capstone August 2024 – May 2025

• Built an FPGA-accelerated phishing detector enabling real-Nme ML inference <10 ms latency.

• Trained 2 lightweight classifiers in TensorFlow/Keras with 96% accuracy & exported it to ONNX format.

• Deployed system on a PYNQ-Z2 board using Xilinx Vivado for synthesis & implementaNon uNlizing ~60% LUT usage. Skills

Hardware Development & TCAD: Xilinx Vivado, Laoce Diamond, Intel Quartus, LTSPICE, Silvaco, Simulink Programming Languages: VHDL, Verilog, Assembly, Python, C, Matlab Machine Learning & Data Tools: TensorFlow, Keras, ONNX, Pandas, HLS4ML, Tensil Cloud, DevOps & Databases: Azure, Docker, gRPC, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Kubernetes, MicroK8s Publica&ons

• Cyber-Resilient 5G Communica:on Framework for Virtual Power Systems. IEEE CCNCPS, 2025. (Co-author). Awards & Professional Memberships

Associa&on for Computer Machinery (ACM) - President

• Led coding events, technical workshops, & collaboraNve projects for underclassmen. Ins&tute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• AcNve in technical commisees & regional conferences. Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)

• Volunteer mentor; organized STEM outreach iniNaNves. President’s List - Spring 2024-Present: 4.0 GPA in all courses.

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