Hi, I’m Nathan Samson

Junior AI Engineer · Aug 2026 – present

Previously AI Engineer Intern · Jan – Aug 2026

• Built a news pipeline that ranks relevant coverage and an article library for staff research and AI-drafted content.
• Built chat for news search and message drafting. Now building tools to group donors and predict who is likely to give.

Software Engineer Intern

• Diagnosed a timeout that silently broke production API monitoring and helped migrate the service from AWS Lambda to Fargate.
• Added logs, alerts, incident reports, and a results dashboard so engineers could catch failures and investigate them.

Software Engineer Intern

• Built company onboarding from scratch in React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, including account setup, authentication, and team invitations.
• Built an AI recommendation engine that suggests teammates and configurations based on each company’s signup needs.

Undergraduate Researcher

• Built a sensor pipeline and React dashboard for a campus system that estimates and forecasts room occupancy from laser scanner readings.
• Developing SPACES course labs that teach students to connect sensors, exchange messages, and build data pipelines.

• An audit of whether sensitive attributes remain recoverable after a model claims to remove them.
• Tests representations and model outputs with stronger attackers, then measures the accuracy cost of preventing leakage.

• A representation learning method that produces a different view of the same data for each intended use.
• Trains a shared encoder with privacy constraints for each purpose, with audits for leakage of sensitive attributes.

• A framework for enforcing consent and permitted data uses within the MQTT protocol.
• Supports access, correction, and deletion requests, with a benchmark for privacy correctness and performance.

• A distributed benchmark for comparing publish/subscribe systems under realistic IoT workloads.
• Models varied devices and behaviors from real datasets, enabling consistent comparisons across MQTT and DDS.