Hello!

I am currently a senior at Harvey Mudd College majoring in computer science and math. I am from the Excelsior District of San Francisco, CA, so I feel most comfortable in foggy and cold weather. I am a Grutor for CS 81: Computability and Logic, a Grader for MATH 187: Operations Research, and a member of the Virgin Orbit Math Clinic Team. My research interests (for now) include planning algorithms, robotics, and computational complexity theory.

I am a member of the AMISTAD Lab, under the guidance of Professor George Montañez. My sub-team is developing a formal theory of underfitting and overfitting by characterizing model capacity of algorithms and different data relationships.

In my free time, I enjoy running, building physical computing projects with Arduino, and developing apps for iOS.

Publications

Drissi, Sandoval, Ojha, Medero. "Harvey Mudd College at SemEval-2019 Task 4: The Clint-Buchanan Hyperpartisan News Detector". In Proceedings of The 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2019. [arXiv:1905.01962]

Drissi, Watkins, Khant, Ojha, Sandoval, Segev, Weiner, Keller. “Programming Language Translation using a Grammar-Driven Tree-to-Tree Model”. Neural Abstract Machines and Program Induction (NAMPI), 2018. [arXiv:1807.01784]

Projects

• I'm developing experimental software to turn AR-enabled iPhones into 3D-scanners. Here's a point cloud of a full-size pickup truck captured with my iPhone 7:

  1979 Ford F-150, but there’s a point coloring bug during capture pic.twitter.com/IRLQxkjoSg

  — Pedro Sandoval (@psandovalsegura) December 31, 2018

• I'm continuing to build TapTunes, an app which brings album dashboards to augmented reality. The project won 2nd Place in the Advanced category at the 5C Hackathon in 2017.

• I built Arithmetical for students. The variety of arithmetic games and upcoming factorization, unit circle, and matrix games can help anyone practice mental math while racing against the clock. View the app's Privacy Policy.

• SandGraph is a graphing calculator written in Java to mimick firmware like that of the TI-83.

• Cipher Project details a solution to a polyalphabetic cipher found on Facebook.

Contact

Feel free to email psandovalsegura@g.hmc.edu