Joseph Gopiao

Experience

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  Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

  Dec 2019 - May 2023

  • Leveraged vehicle crash data to evaluate injury benefits of lane departure warning (LDW), lane-keeping assist (LKA), and automatic emergency braking (AEB) implementation, estimating a 7%+ reduction in crash rate and a 21%+ reduction in serious injuries• Created a data ingest pipeline to stream, transform, and cleanse robot operating system (ROS) data, enhancing the acquisition and analysis of kinematic data• Designed and conducted closed-course vehicle experiments to test the control capabilities of automated driving systems, pinpointing weaknesses in control system architectures and informing areas of improvement Show less • Estimated optimal sensor requirements for achieving detection rates of 70% for head-on collisions using vehicle trajectory data, guiding sensor design improvements• Simulated the kinematics of automated vehicle safety maneuvers such as LDW, LKA, and AEB during head-on collisions• Developed a relational database to house crash reconstructions and detailed metadata, including crash type, vehicle characteristics, occupant descriptions, and impacted object data, enabling comprehensive safety analysis• Reconstructed 600+ vehicle crashes using AutoCAD and data from CISS, a nationally representative crash database Show less

  • Research Engineer

    Aug 2021 - May 2023

  • Crash Reconstruction Analyst

    Dec 2019 - Aug 2021
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  Booz Allen Hamilton

  Aug 2023 - now

  • Maintain a scalable, multi-INT, PKI-enabled AI/ML and DevSecOps platform with serverless AWS tools, enabling data scientists to rapidly build, train, and deploy machine learning models for a plethora of mission use cases• Deploy foundational models (FMs) as-a-service IC-wide via Kubernetes, using Helm and ArgoCD for orchestration and deployment• Increase the availability of generative AI in the classified space and removing the time/cost burden of clients provisioning their own infrastructure• Develop and deploy specialized IC chatbots as-a-service by integrating vector databases with large language models (LLMs) using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, ensuring standardized configurations and scalability of hosted applications• Execute technical demos to showcase and promote the above generative AI tools to clients and stakeholders, increasing the end-user base by >300 Show less • Streamlined national security client delivery by gathering requirements for out-of-the-box software solutions in air-gapped environments and identifying areas of cross-firm resource reuse, accelerating project timelines and cutting operational costs• Facilitated technical exchange meetings with scrum teams, acquisition teams, and national security stakeholders, ensuring alignment with mission-critical business objectives and encouraging stakeholder buy-in• Led daily scrum ceremonies to identify/resolve blockers and mitigate risks, improving team collaboration and delivery Show less

  • Senior Consultant

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Consultant

    Aug 2023 - Apr 2024