Alex Ruchti
Artificial intelligence engineer and Director of AI at Direct Supply. Working to make the lives of seniors better. Free time is filled with biking, soccer, cars, coffee and coding.
UChicago
Pursuing a master's degree in Computer Science. Enjoying plugging into the UChicago rationalist community and having an excuse to code more.
Direct Supply
Started as a Software Engineering intern in 2018. Currently Director of AI and leading our Applied AI team to deploy models that improve the quality of senior care.
Nvidia
Spent the summer as a machine learning and artificial intelligence intern. Built and trained machine learning models to predict failure of place and route jobs. Also built an internal analytics site to display the outputs.
Research Collaboration with MCW
Developed a novel deep learning algorithm that outperformed existing state-of-the-art models for multimodal image registration. Spent time embedded in a lab at MCW and built an understanding of academia. Research published in peer-reviewed journal PeerJ.
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Earned my Bachelor's in Computer Science and enjoyed the incredible learning opportunity of doing undergrad research with Dr. Bukowy. Also was a founding member and reasearch group mentor of the MSOE AI club.
FIRST Robotics Team 1259
I was homeschooled for high school and a member of Pewaukee High School's FRC team, Paradigm Shift. Member of both the build and design team.
Projects
Prime Holdout Research
Co-authored research on prime holdout problems. Also had fun writing CUDA C for rapid manual verification of very large numbers.
ANEX
Developed a rotation scheduling program for a Milwaukee-based anesthesiology private practice.
Medical Mission Scheduler
Designed and implemented a comprehensive system for a Milwaukee medical mission group, featuring patient tracking and an intelligent surgical scheduling algorithm with a modern web interface.