Student Spotlight

Justin Harper, LinkedIn Top Voice in Machine Learning Speaks on His Kickstart with Programming

Justin, a junior majoring in Computer Science, has had a lot of exposure to machine learning. His first experience with programming being in high school where he participated in a hackathon at Cornell Tech through his school’s programming club. Securing an internship from that experience, he worked at the Future Automation Research Lab where he created a simulation of Roosevelt Island.

He’s not only worked on research with one of the Computer Science professor, Praveen Tripathi identifying and predicting spam messages, he’s also participated in an IBM Mini-Sprint where he further helped contribute to cleaning 14 csv files and developing predictive models.

Following those experiences he was then invited to contribute to expert collaborative articles on LinkedIn and was ranked top 2% worldwide in quality of contributions, where he became a LinkedIn Top Voice in Machine Learning.