I'm Mark Raspopov, a 13 year old full-time undergraduate student (sophomore) at California State University, Los Angeles, accepted through the Early Entrance Program (EEP) at age 12. I'm majoring in CS and minoring in Psychology.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Club at Cal State LA

Founder & President

September 2024 - Present

• Responsible for building a welcoming, inclusive environment for the AI/ML Club
• Chairs executive committee meetings and may host general member meetings
• Responsible for communicating the executive committee's vision and general status with the Faculty Advisor
• Hosts projects meetings

RoboSubLA Club at Cal State LA

Controls Team Lead

September 2024 - Present

• Responsible for leading the Controls team, which takes commands from Autonomy, and controls the motors, accesses sensors, etc.
• Hosts weekly meetings

• Responsible for creating the decision tree to send commands to the Controls team
• Attended bi-weekly general meetings and weekly autonomy meetings

ML Research with Dr. Pourhomayoun at Cal State LA

Researcher

September 2023 - Present

• Learned how to train YOLO on a custom dataset
• Learned how to deploy models onto a NVIDIA Jetson
• Learned about GANs and DCGANs
• Learning about diffusion models and their applications

XR Research with Dr. Krum at Cal State LA

Researcher

September 2023 - Present

• Learned the Unity XR Pathway
• Created a simple VR grappling gun game using Unity and C#

Kids4Kids Global

Founder & Youth President

June 2022 - Present

• Mentor, educate, and support youth with disadvantages around the globe
• Develop and design the website
• Organize Interesting Interviews, Guest Speakers, and Workshops
• Reach out to volunteers, staff, educators, and students

Headstarter AI

Software Engineer Fellow

July 2024 - September 2024

• Building 5+ AI apps and APIs using NextJS, OpenAI, Pinecone, and StripeAPI
• Developing projects from design to deployment leading 4+ engineering fellows using MVC design patterns

Association for Computing Machinery at Cal State LA

Secretary

May 2024 - September 2024

• Updated the Constitution together with other Executive Board members
• Keep the minutes of all Chapter and Executive Board meetings
• Submission of any proposed amendments to these bylaws to the President. Proposed amendments must be approved before they can be submitted to the Executive Board for a vote
• Being in charge of communication and delivering weekly newsletters to all the members and researching internship opportunities for the newsletter

• Participating in 2 Advanced Projects:
  • Space Invaders game using PyGame (Spring 2024)
  • Platformer game using Unity and C# (Fall 2023)
• Winner of Spring 2024 ACM's Master Coder
• Winner of Fall 2023 ACM's Biggest Fan

Buildspace

Builder in Nights & Weekends S5 Cohort

June 2024 - August 2024

• Participating in an intensive 6-week project-based program for builders and creators to eventually launch a functional project by the end of the program
• MarioMind Team Member: AI plays the original Super Mario Bros. game using PPO for reinforcement learning, a library for the training environment, and a Roboflow model to see the screen

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers at Cal State LA

Central Processing Lead of Micromouse Team

September 2023 - May 2024

• Made a prototype Floodfill Algorithm for Micromouse to run in a maze
• Ran a workshop about the algorithm
• Learned how to solder (certified)
• Participated in all meetings (Micromouse and general)

August 2023 - May 2027

California State University, Los Angeles (ECST)

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Major & Psychology Minor

Sophomore

• Dean's List Spring 2024
• Dean's List Fall 2023

September 2024 - June 2025

The Knowledge Society (TKS)

Innovator

• TKS is a 10-month global innovation program for selected teens.

April 2024 - June 2024

Harvard University

CS50x

• Verified Certificate

June 2024

MathWorks

Foundational MATLAB · MATLAB Fundamentals · MATLAB Onramp

• Badge · Verified Certificate

September 2023 - April 2024

The Coding School

Quantum Computing

• Full Scholarship (full year)

July 2023 - August 2023

Best Delegate Model United Nations

Virtual Model United Nations Institute - Summer 2023

• Ambassador MUN Camp (August 7 - 11) · Military Use of Artificial Intelligence
• Junior Crisis MUN Camp (July 31 - August 4) · Space Security
• Junior Diplomat MUN Camp (July 17 - 21) · Climate Change

July 2018 - August 2023

Olympiads School

• Skills: Python · Java · C++ · Number Theory · Combinatorics · Problem Solving
• Subjects: Computer Science · Math · Physics · Chemistry · Biology · English · Debate · Public Speaking · French

Global Contests

US Contests

Canadian Contests

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