Bio
A Kingdom Man seeking to fulfill my Kingdom purpose - Share the Gospel of JESUS. From a rural city in Georgia called Thomson in McDuffie County.I'm also a
- student (Clafinite + Trojan + Gator)
- published researcher
- entrepreneur
- venture capitalist (VC) scout
- US veteran
- community activist
- brand-owner
Have you noticed the "Fit To..." above? In 2018, I started my FitToCode brand in undergrad at Claflin University. Since August 2021, I paused developing my brand to focus on graduate school. We'll be back soon, so stay tuned!
Background
Earning my MSc in Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC). I'm in search of a Ph.D. advisor in time series (TS) and machine learning (ML) for Fall 2024. Skip to Research section for more.
I'm also looking for paid gigs (ie: forecast analyst, quantitative finance, ML, research scientist, data scientist, software engineer) between January 2024 - August 2024.
Entrepreneurial Ventures
Roeh, Co-Founder
August 2023 - Current
Read published works in neuromorphic chips and spiking neural networks (SNNs).
Build a competitive analysis based on software (ie: SNN models), hardware (ie: neuromorphic chips), and application areas.
Write code to build SNNs.
Email: detravious at catalystrobotics dot ai -- Yes, this is correct lol
Catalyst Robotics, Co-Founder
April 2021 - Current
We are building autonomous mobile health clinics that bring self-service healthcare screenings directly to patients. At Catalyst, I primarily create systems and develop software for two projects - (1) autonomous perception and navigation and (2) non-invasive face scan to check pulse, body temperature, and other health metrics. We are seeking investors and pilot programs with hospitals.
Website
Pitch Deck
Email: detravious at catalystrobotics dot ai -- Kinda long huh
CV
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Publications
[1] Brinkley D, Johnson E, Feng T, Gil Y (2023). Reproducibility as a Stepping Stone to Intelligent Assistants for Data Analysis: An Analysis of Physical Activity, Sleep, and Work Shift in Nurses. Association for Computing Machinery Intelligent User Interfaces Open Science. Available here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3581754.3584173;
[2] “Reproducibility as a Stepping Stone to Intelligent Assistants for Data Analysis: An Analysis of Physical Activity, Sleep, and Work Shift in Nurses.” Detravious J. Brinkley, Emmanuel Johnson, Tiantian Feng, and Yolanda Gil. Technical Report ISI-TR-741, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, 90202. November 2022. Available here: https://www.isi.edu/results/technical-reports/
[3] Calles J, Justice I, Brinkley D, Garcia A, Endy D (2019). Fail-safe genetic codes designed to intrinsically contain engineered organisms. Nucleic Acids Research (Accepted) doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz745
[4] Calles J, Justice I, Brinkley D, Garcia A, Endy D (2019). Synthetic Genetic Codes Designed to Hinder Evolution. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/695569
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science
2021 - Present
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Machine Learning, Robotics, Database Systems, Multimodal Probabilistic Learning of Human Communication, Innovation for Defense Applications
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
2016 - 2020
Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC
Linear Algebra, Probability & Statistics, Calculus I, II, III