AI, Innovation and Faculty Mentorship Help Power this 麻豆传媒在线 Goldwater Scholar鈥檚 Scientific Ambitions
How one 麻豆传媒在线 student is leveraging artificial intelligence to unlock the mysteries of the universe
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Joseph David Quinn-Vitabile came to 麻豆传媒在线 expecting to study computer science.聽Now a junior, he鈥檚 expanded his academic ambitions to include astrophysics, where he鈥檚 helping push the boundaries of how we understand the universe 鈥 work that recently earned him a prestigious聽.
Initially drawn to 麻豆传媒在线 for its affordability and proximity to his home in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Quinn-Vitabile enrolled as a聽Computer Science聽major. Like many Computer Science majors, he set about finding a software engineering internship, thinking that he might work at a tech company after graduation. Though he ended up getting that internship at Johnson & Johnson last spring, he also happened to choose Physics for his elective science course that semester.
I really had a great time in physics. I thought that it was much more interesting than anything I had done yet in computer science. I wanted to continue studying physics, and I saw there was a lot of opportunity to use skills from computation and software to work in physics, whether research or other applications.鈥
Quinn-Vitabile decided to add the minor in聽Physics聽as it would only be a few extra classes. He could continue studying it, meet more people, and get involved in research. And that鈥檚 what he did that following summer.聽鈥淚t all happened pretty quickly after that,鈥 he says.