Michele Autorino

CS & Statistics @ UIUC

Building things at the intersection of software and data. Currently researching prediction markets!

Outside of code: soccer, bjj, 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.
  • NBA Player Valuation ModelML pipeline predicting player value (VORP) with Gradient Boosting, achieving R² of 0.90.
  • Fraud Call DetectionNLP-based fraud detection using NLTK and logistic regression with 89% accuracy.
  • Link AnalyzerFull-stack web app for extracting metadata and analyzing website structure.