Isaac Aurelio Felix
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Jan 2025 — Dec 2026
M.S. Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2022 — Dec 2023
B.S. Computer Science & Linguistics
University of Illinois at Chicago
Experience
Feb 2024 — Present
Quantitative Analyst
Bank of America
Financial Crime Detection Models
- Engineered the fine-tuning data strategy to align external models with bank risk frameworks; curated the ground-truth corpus by standardizing historical fraud records, ensuring the vendor's detection logic matched internal protocols.
- Led the technical integration of a proprietary third-party AI platform, managing vendor due diligence and establishing precision/recall acceptance gates for production deployment.
- Engineered the daily bankruptcy ETL workflow using SAS and SQL, processing high-volume daily records to generate real-time "beat/miss" forecasting signals for executive leadership.
- Modeled credit degradation curves via cohort analysis to challenge existing reserve assumptions; findings influenced a material strategic adjustment in portfolio risk management.
- Validated challenger models by conducting stress-tests and interpretability analysis, translating black-box outputs into actionable risk memos for non-technical stakeholders.
Aug 2025 — Present
Research Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology (Mussmann Lab)
- Partnered with the City of Charleston to evaluate the viability of expanding the city’s sensor network by engineering geospatial features to model train crossing delay predictability within Charleston’s complex port topography, establishing performance benchmarks that new hardware must exceed to ensure ROI.
Sep 2025 — Dec 2025
AI Policy Fellow
Paragon Policy
- Consulted the NYC Dept. of Education (the largest US school district) to architect the technical procurement framework for AI adoption across 1,500+ schools.
- Defined district-wide security guardrails and data privacy standards, establishing the equitable implementation plans for vendor software.
May 2025 — Jul 2025
Research Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology (Friendly Cities Lab)
- Created the codebook and data schema to structure processed datasets; engineered Python ETL pipelines (Geopandas/QGIS) to normalize geospatial data in preparation for legislative congruence analysis.
- Contributed to the draft research manuscript by conducting a comprehensive literature review on legislative congruence.
Jun 2023 — Aug 2023
Quantitative Analyst Intern
Bank of America
- Trained a multiclass LSTM network using Apache Spark to predict mortgage delinquency; performed feature selection to optimize validation accuracy.
- Preprocessed raw loan-level data to correct irregularities and outlier biases, optimizing data integrity for downstream risk modeling.
Aug 2022 — Dec 2023
Research Assistant
Learning + Interest + Technology Lab
- Engineered the API integration for a robotic AI tutor; designed and optimized system prompts to map GPT-4 outputs to prompts engineered through interdisciplinary collaboration ensuring pedagogical alignment.
- Iterated on product features based on field tests with educators, directly translating qualitative user feedback into technical engineering specifications.
Sep 2022 — Dec 2022
Mobile Networks Co-op
Nokia
- Collaborated with engineering teams to optimize radio-control software for 5G cellular radios, ensuring stability within high-throughput network environments.
Leadership Experience
Aug 2023 — Dec 2023
Mentor
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
- Mentored junior engineering students on academic planning and career development in tech.
Research and Publications
March 2024
Publication (HRI '24)
M. A. Rahman, I. A. Felix, U. Shahid, and J. E. Michaelis, "PATHWiSE: An AI-Assisted Teacher Authoring Tool for Creating Custom Robot-Assisted Learning Activities", Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24), pp. 88–90, March 2024. DOI: 10.1145/3610978.3641086