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John Speaks

I am a Carnegie Mellon student pursuing a Master's in Information Technology Strategy and a Computer Science and Linguistics graduate from UIUC. I'm passionate about harnessing the power of language and the versatility of technology to understand the world and build technologies that are revolutionary, accessible, and fair. I focus my work at the intersection of NLP, ML infrastructure, and ethical AI.

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LATTiCE: Semantically Aligned Action Representations for Vision-Language-Action Models

May 2026 Projects

Read about LATTiCE, a novel action representation framework that aligning robot action tokenizers with language.

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Teaching Assistant for the CMU AI Technicians Program

August - December 2025 Leadership

Read about my role as a Teaching Assistant at CMU, where I developed projects and course materials in programming, data engineering, and cloud AI development.

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The Need for Federal Regulation of Facial Recognition in Local Policing

November 2025 Projects

Read my policy essay analyzing the risks of facial recognition technology in local U.S. policing, proposing a centralized auditing and soft law solution.

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Software Development Engineer Intern at AWS

May - August 2025 Work Experience

Read about my internship at Amazon Web Services on the SageMaker Unified Studio team, focusing on enhancing observability and resource usage metrics.

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