Steven Valenzuela

Ad Hoc - a solution for a specific purpose, problem, or task that is usually unpredictable and not easily accommodated.

I am a progress oriented individual aspiring to help civilization develop to a higher, more sustainable and advanced age. Embracing change by adopting and implementing recent developments in technology and philosophy; while staying grounded with the principals established by the giants of the past to make sure results always are part of the process.

My endgame is to mature into a professional who is capable of ensuring the quality of infrastructure.


My Interest

Often I am pondering the intersection of society, mechanics, electronics and computing within infrastructure. Some of what I dabble with is the modeling, simulation and implementation of autonomous systems, construction and investing.

The primary insights I have gained from my education in mechanical engineering and experience as psychiatric nursing assistant, sales intern, electrical estimator and research assistant is that that every project has a process, probability and a bottom line.

With all this in mind, I continue to refine my skills such as identifying the ins and outs of a process as well as adaptability.

Sensor Fusion

Extended Kalman
Filters

Autonomous Systems

Path
Planning

Control Theory

PID controls

Artificial Intelligence

Reinforcemment learning
nerual networks

My Skills

control engineerigg

80%

sensor fusion engineer

95%

autonomous planning

75%

c++

75%

pytorch

87%

Python

70%

Research Timeline

2023 - present

Algorithmic Trading - Project

Using the Robinhood API I’m selecting stocks based on desirable P/B, P/E and market cap to filter 5000 securities to 10-20 securities. Then setting up entry and exit strategies by using indicators such as fractals, Bollinger Bands, MA50 and MA200. Personal Project now still ongoing.

2021t

UAV Simulation Platform - Ubelekorp

Using Gazebo, ROS, ROS2, PX4 and Autopilot SITL intended to help students to research, design and develop whatever algorithms they are working on for flying a UAV. Personal project now still ongoing.

2022

Detection/Tracking/Identification of Unkown Aircraft via Radar and YOLO Computer Vision Algorithm - NASA MIRO Center for Aerospace and Exploration

Implementation of slew to cue tracking where radars would track the path of incoming aircraft and send its coordinates to a PTZ camera so that it may point to the target and identify it.

2019

Detection/Tracking of Unkown Aircraft via Software Defined Radio - NASA MIRO Center for Aerospace and Exploration

Managed a group of undergrads to build a doppler direction finding system using some antennas, Kerberos Software Defined Radio, Raspberry Pin and RDF Mapper software. The goal was to have multiple bases placed across the city that would upload bearings to a server making it possible to triangulate the location of a UAV transmitter, then have that UAV transmission interrupted.

My Projects

Here is some of my work that I've done in various programming languages.

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Research Notes

Algorithmic Trading

  • Programming lessons from
  • The Intelligent Investor
  • Technical Analysis
  • Robhinhood API

Communication Protocols

June 28, 2023

Autonomous Systems

  • Path Planning
  • Autonomous Flight
  • Automated Trading System

Analytical Dynamics

  • Modeling
  • Solution Types

Computer Vision

  • Visual Odometry
  • Detection and Recognition

State Estimation

  • GPS Localization
  • AEB System

Contact Me

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Location

: El Paso, Texas

Email

: svalenzuela8@miners.utep.edu

Education

: The University of Texas at El Paso

Mobile Number

: 915 330 4836

Languages

: English, Spanish