michele autorino

cs & statistics @ uiuc

i like all things statistics and am currently looking into robotics

outside of school i enjoy: soccer, jiu-jitsu, hiking, nature documentaries, rom-coms, meeting people

Experience

Software Engineer Intern @ PlayTogether — Aug 2025-Dec 2025
TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Keycloak auth. Reduced API latency 10%, login errors 20%.

Researcher @ Illinois Geometry Lab — Sep 2025–Dec 2025
Built Python data pipelines to study skill vs. luck across tens of thousands of games.

Software Engineer Intern @ Electronic Visualization Lab — May 2025–Aug 2025
C++/Unreal Engine real-time 3D visualization. Achieved 2–3× frame-rate improvement.

Software Developer @ UIUC Physics Dept — Jan 2025–May 2025
JavaScript signal processing extension for FPGA rigs used by 100+ students.

Projects

  • degenstockHackPrinceton project (30/180+ teams). AWS-hosted FastAPI service for prediction market analytics with FAISS embeddings, arbitrage detection, and React dashboards.
  • MRI Classification ModelPyTorch pipeline for brain MRI classification and tumor segmentation on 3,200+ images. 89% classification, 90% segmentation accuracy.
  • SlopCopmy friends and I used GeminiAPI to build an extenstion that blocks absolute slop from ever hitting your eyes on youtube