# Andrew Tran > AI Research and Engineering Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewtran3 πŸ“© andrew.tran117@outlook.com πŸ”¬ See my work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=t9TUznoAAAAJ&hl=en ## Work Experience ### Research @ SPAR Research Jan 2026 – Present Model Self-Forecasting and Introspection ### Research @ Evaluating Evaluations Jan 2025 – Present Infra for EvalCards --- Paper in Social Impact Reporting in AI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05613 Blog titled "The AI Evaluation Chart Crisis": https://evalevalai.com/documentation/2025/08/09/blog-chart-crisis/ ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area Amazon Connect Agent Workspace ### Research @ Temple HCI Lab Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Advised by Professor Stephen MacNeil Democratizing education and design for non-experts using Generative AI I authored 10 GenAI and CS Education conference publications @ ICER, SIGCSE, FIE, ACE, ITICSE I helped grow the lab from <5 to 50+ active undergraduate researchers, more than half of which have conference accepted publications and many have had the opportunity to travel to present their work ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Project Manager, Design Team @ Electric Potential Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Gen Z’s digital launchpad for social change journeys ### Director @ OwlHacks Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Temple University's Annual Hackathon, a civic ecosystem designed to engage the local community β€’ Secure $25,000+ in sponsorship value for event bringing in 250+ students from 10+ universities β€’ Oversee 5 cross-functional committees consisting of 15+ student leaders β€’ Led 3x 48 hour OwlHacks events in 5 semesters ### Software Engineer, TECDP @ Cigna Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States myPassport, a pharmacy benefits management application β€’ Developed API endpoints with Kotlin, Spring/Springboot, and PostgreSQL to facilitate backend workflow by sending data between business components β€’ Utilized AWS lambda functions to establish serverless architecture, accessing DynamoDB tables with user data and external drug APIs to send data to Next.js frontend β€’ Automated 10 webpage user flows with Selenium to test for bugs ### Software Engineer @ AeroPest Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States AI vision for autonomous drones to detect and identify pests during building inspections β€’ Collaborated with a team of 6+ in dynamic startup environment to develop a react native mobile app that creates more efficient field inspection reports for pest control workers β€’ Automated PDF document generation of key field inspection data through frontend data manipulation β€’ Integrated Amazon Web Service Authentication into mobile appAI vision algorithms for autonomous drones to detect pests during building inspections ### Software Engineer (Good Tech Fellow Program) @ IBM Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Canvas-based interface for crafting data narratives on Philadelphia, PA β€’ HumanityWithUS is a web application designed to allow users to craft their own data narratives to learn about issues surrounding poverty in Philadelphia, PA β€’ Developed a spatial exploration interface in React.js to display dynamic graphs compiled from Philadelphia, PA regional data (average income, cost of living, etc.) β€’ Integrated and configured IBM Watson’s AI chatbot to guide users around website features ### REU Undergraduate Researcher @ National Science Foundation (NSF) Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States β€’ National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Program Scholar β€’ Developed FeedbackBuffet, an application that allows students to receive feedback on writing from Large Language Models; FeedbackBuffet is a use case for research exploring Large Language Model mapping into UI affordances ### Freelance Web Developer @ Ikanos Freelancing Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States ### Lifeguard @ Rose Tree Woods Swim Club Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Broomall, Pennsylvania, United States ### Cashier @ Gentile’s Fruit Market Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Temple University ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Temple University Japan ### Marple Newtown Senior High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrewtran117 --- Source: https://flows.cv/andrewtran3 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andrewtran3/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13