# Joseph McCalmon

> Founding Machine Learning and Robotics Engineer at Tutor Intelligence

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/josephmccalmon

Machine learning engineer specializing in computer vision. Experienced in building end to end deep learning solutions, from model training to deployment and hosting. Skilled at engineering ML systems in high performance cloud computing environments, and under low compute constraints onboard robots. Currently part of a great team at Tutor Intelligence providing AI-driven automation solutions to factories.

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ Tutor Intelligence
Jan 2025 – Present | Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

### Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Tutor Intelligence
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Tutor Intelligence
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Currently leading the machine learning team at Tutor Intelligence.  Developing zero shot computer vision algorithms for grasping a large set of diverse objects in highly uncertain environments. Building cloud-hosted infrastructure to solve robot applications with demanding latency and throughout requirements.

### Research Assistant @ Penn State University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Developed a novel algorithm to explain the decision-making of deep reinforcement learning agents to non-experts. Applied data mining methods to categorize and label behaviors of autonomous agents. Worked as the primary author, advised by Dr. Dongwon Lee and Dr. Sarra Alqahtani, to identify the research question, implement possible solutions, and write the manuscript. Invited to give a full presentation on this work at a conference. Currently working on additional projects for the same research group during the 2021-2022 academic year.

### Research Assistant @ Wake Forest University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Led multiple research projects on topics surrounding deep learning, reinforcement learning, security, and explainable machine learning. Implemented machine learning projects from scratch and from literature using Python, Tensorflow, Pytorch, and other machine learning packages. Developed novel ideas for deep reinforcement learning algorithms through extensive literature reviews and creativity. Taught undergraduate and graduate students how to develop their own projects. Received multiple university and national level awards for research accomplishments. Advised by Dr. Sarra Alqahtani.

### Peer Tutor @ Wake Forest University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area
Tutored students weekly in topics from Introduction to Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Introduction to Computer Science as part of the Learning Assistance Center. Awarded tutor of the week.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics and Computer Science
Wake Forest University

### High School Diploma
Groton School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joseph-mccalmon-a6a70b19a
- Portfolio: https://mccjoe14.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-31