Alex Mankowski is an R&D engineer on Kitware’s Computer Vision Team located in Clifton Park, New York. With a focus on machine learning, he develops robust solutions that can perform in the real-world. He helps validate, optimize, and deploy advanced exploitation algorithms.

Prior to joining Kitware, Alex was an independent contractor at Wild Me where he performed R&D using computer vision and machine learning techniques to identify wildlife. This included tasks like individual verification, ranking, and self-supervised learning. Alex was also a software engineering intern at Datto for the core device team, where he updated code for data backup devices.

Alex received his master’s degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2022. His master’s thesis focused on evaluating wildlife identification algorithms in an environment representative of what we expect to see in the real world. In 2020, Alex received his bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics.