Center for Advanced Computation and Telecommunications

Peter Mendre Jr.

Graduate Student in Computer Engineering

Francis College of Engineering

Contact

Office:  Falmouth 203

Email: peter_mendre@student.uml.edu

Peter Mendre Jr. is a graduate student pursuing his PhD in Computer Engineering.  His research is in computer vision for applications in waste sorting.  

Research 

Raman Hyper-spectral Imaging for Black Plastic Classification

 

Education

  • Ph.D (Expected ’30) Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • MSE (’21) Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell 
    • Projects: 3D CNN Segmentation of Hyperspectral Data, Actor-Critic RL Agent for Robot Picking Task
  • BS (’20) Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Skills

  • Programming: C, C++, Python, Javascript
  • Libraries: Numpy, Qt, Sci-kit learn, Matplotlib, OpenCV, PyTorch
  • Tools: Data collection and annotation, augmentation, preprocessing, model training, model validation, data visualization

Honors & Awards 

  •  Dean’s List 4x semesters 

Relevant Coursework

  • Computational Data Driven Modeling I/II
  • Computer Vision
  • Control Systems
  • Deep Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning

Experiences

  •  Electronics II Lab Grader, Spring 2019
  • Machine Learning Engineer, Green Machine Sales