MLH Fellow

I am a recent graduate in Computer Science from Washington State University with a minor in Mathematics. My research spans robotics, machine learning, and AI safety, with a focus on reinforcement learning, human-AI collaboration, and large language models.

I’ve conducted research at Carnegie Mellon University (HARP Lab) on hierarchical reward learning, Oregon State University (CHARISMA Lab) on multi-robot navigation, and Washington State University (Doppa Lab). I also completed a software engineering internship at Google (STEP Intern), where I built scalable data processing and visualization systems to support internal analytics.

I was recently admitted to the Master of Science in Computer Science program at Georgia Tech, where I will begin in Spring 2026, specializing in Computational Perception and Robotics.

I am currently seeking full-time opportunities in AI/ML research and engineering while continuing to explore the intersection of foundation models and embodied intelligence.

Please feel free to reach out about research, collaboration, or any advice I can help with!

Ethan Villalovoz

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06/2025: Gave an alumni talk for the WSU MARC & MIRA program on my research journey and grad school advice.
06/2025: I joined the Meta x MLH Fellowship as a Production Engineering Fellow!
05/2025: Graduated from Washington State University with a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. Go Cougs!
06/2024: This summer, I will be conducting research at Carnegie Mellon University as part of the CMU RISS program.
09/2023: I will be participating in Google Research's CS Research Mentorship Program during the Fall semester.
07/2023: I am thrilled and sincerely grateful to have been awarded the Generation Google Scholarship.
07/2023: My contributions to the work I completed at Oregon State University have been accepted for presentation at IROS 2023!
05/2023: I will be interning as a STEP Intern at Google.
05/2023: I became a MARC Scholar through the NIH Fellowship.
06/2022: I will be conducting research at Oregon State University as part of the REU: Robots in the Real World program.
07/2021: I became an ESTEEMED Scholar through the NIH Fellowship.

Hi, I'm Ethan Villalovoz

AI/ML Researcher & Engineer

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