Christopher Saia

About Christopher Saia

Junior at Loyola University Maryland pursuing an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Data Science with a minor in Math. Full-Stack programmer skilled in Python and Java, looking for jobs in Machine Learning, Software Engineering and Data Engineering. Strong interests in studies like Data Science, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.

Experience

1. Computer Vision Intern

   Amizenlabs.Com Threatvision.Ai

   Jun 2025 — Present

   Developed and deployed a real-time object detection prototype on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano- Researched edge AI pipelines and benchmarked pre-trained models (YOLO, SSD) for embedded deployment- Trained a YOLOv5 model on images for recyclable object detection using Roboflow and Ultralytics- Optimized custom YOLOv5 model on Jetson Nano using TensorRT and NGC container, increasing real-time inference speed from 5 FPS to 27 FPS (+440% performance gain)- Applied model quantization, pruning, and GPU profiling to improve frame rate and memory usage- Documented the full deployment process and delivered a working demo with real-time insights, localized processing, and 92% overall detection accuracy.Technologies: Jetson Nano, Jupyter, Deepstream SDK, PyTorch, YOLOv5, TensorRT, Docker, OpenCV, Roboflow

Education

• Loyola University Maryland

  Undergraduate, Computer Science and Data Science

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)

  Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science