Isaac Peterson

linkedin.com/in/isaac-w-peterson · github.com/Isaacwilliam4

Education

Utah State University (Logan, UT) Aug 2024 – Apr 2029
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering — Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
GPA: 3.89
Brigham Young University (Provo, UT) Aug 2019 – Apr 2024
B.S. Computer Science (Data Science Emphasis), Minor in Mathematics
GPA: 3.50

Professional Experience

AlphaZ — Robotic Simulation Developer (Logan, UT) Aug 2024 – Dec 2025
  • Developed large-scale robotic simulations integrating reinforcement learning, computer vision, and large language models to enable robot fleet coordination in NVIDIA Isaac Lab.
DIRECT Labs at Utah State University — Graduate Research Assistant (Logan, UT) Aug 2024 – Dec 2025
  • Integrated multi-agent reinforcement learning Python libraries with NVIDIA Isaac Lab to enable multi-agent robotic coordination in high-fidelity parallelizable physics simulations.
  • Developed a pipeline with an RL client and Java server for optimal electric vehicle charger placement.
Air Force Research Laboratories — Machine Learning Engineer (Provo, UT) Jan 2024 – Aug 2024
  • Used computer vision deep learning models to achieve an 80× speed increase on detection of cold atom clouds for quantum experimentation.
  • Handled 30+ TB of image data and deep learning model training in Google Cloud Platform.
Idea Labs — Research Assistant (Provo, UT) Feb 2023 – May 2024
  • Conducted 500+ hours of research on machine learning/deep learning technologies.
  • Created a Plotly Dash web app enabling visualization of datasets exceeding 100 million records.
  • Used SLURM to manage compute jobs on a high-performance compute cluster.
LifeSeasons — Software Engineer Intern (Provo, UT) Aug 2020 – Aug 2022
  • Implemented an automated shipping report integrating REST APIs from 3 separate companies.
  • Utilized Microsoft Azure for deploying company applications.
  • Managed company data in Microsoft SQL Server.

Skills