Software Engineering + AI/ML | Data Science @ UC Berkeley | RISE Global Winner
- 🔭 Building TacticSquare for UAV coordination simulation and FireImpactology for wildfire exposure analysis.
- 🎯 Focus: multi-agent RL, stochastic combat models, graph optimization, remote sensing.
- 🛰 Working with Sentinel-2 and ERA5 data, downscaled climate projections and geospatial pipelines.
- 🇺🇦 From Ukraine; my projects span heat risk, wildfire exposure and UAV coordination.
- 📈 Kaggle: rank 5 of 564 in Store Sales forecasting, top 1% in Housing Prices, 40+ public notebooks.
- Recount (live demo) - Cal Hacks 13.0 winner (Apify and Convex prizes), built solo: snap a hospital bill and it checks each charge against the hospital's published cash prices and California charity care law, then drafts the dispute or financial aid application. Prices for 340 of 470 California hospitals come from a public Apify Actor; Convex runs the backend.
- Waves (live demo) - FastAPI heatwave map for Ukraine with deterministic personal-risk scoring and Mistral-generated bilingual action plans under privacy and medical-safety guardrails.
- heat-risk-cuda - custom CUDA C++ kernels compiled at runtime with NVIDIA
cuda.core, verified for exact parity with NumPy and PyTorch references (171 GPU tests) and benchmarked on a Tesla T4: a shared-memory tiled kernel cut end-to-end time 2.2× and runs about 5× faster than the PyTorch baseline. - SwarmDAQ (live demo) - performance exchange for AI agents built at WeaveHacks 2025: agents bid on tasks, a market maker routes work to the best swarm, and reputation updates after every run, with W&B Weave tracing and Redis memory.
- LargeVCModel - Next.js + PostgreSQL platform for relationship search, company research, investor-fit scoring and secure Google integrations.
- TacticSquare - AI combat simulator for UAV coordination, route planning and attrition forecasts using RL, graph search and Bayesian Monte Carlo; field-tested in Ukraine with 10 divisions and backed by external funding.
- FireImpactology - wildfire analytics pipeline: MODIS/VIIRS/Sentinel-2 + ERA5 + Gaussian plume to map PM2.5/PM10 and health risk.
- Schmidt DSE Climate Pipeline - xarray and Dask workflows for downscaled CMIP6 analysis and National Park Service climate-risk maps at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment.
- DEMI - wearable prototype with gas sensors, microcontroller and CV backend that detects TVOC spikes and automatically triggers a deodorizing spray.
42 merged pull requests across 11 established open source projects:
In review at OWASP DependencyCheck, GeoPandas and Newton.
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Cal Hacks 13.0 Winner, Apify and Convex prizes, 2026
"Recount", a hospital bill checker that catches overcharges and finds charity care patients qualify for. -
RISE Global Winner (Schmidt Futures & Rhodes Trust), 2024
Top 100 of 50,000+ from 170+ countries with scholarship and project funding. -
King Abdulaziz and Mawhiba Award, 2024
Top 10 of 1,500 finalists for a combat-operations simulator using Monte Carlo and cellular automata. -
Genius Olympiad Gold (Environmental Science), 2024
"FireImpactology" for wildfire, air quality and health impact modeling. -
INFOMATRIX International Platinum Medal, 2024
1st place among 300 participants for advanced combat simulation with stochastic Lanchester models and RL-aided route planning. -
All-Ukrainian Programming Cup, 3rd place and Jane Street Award, 2025
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NASA Space Apps Challenge, 2nd place in Ukraine, 2023
FireImpactology wildfire and air quality pipeline. -
Venture and deployment
$50,000 raised to scale TacticSquare pilots with 10 divisions and international visibility.
Core domains: CUDA and GPU computing, RL (DQN, PPO), multi-agent systems, Monte Carlo, stochastic processes, graph algorithms, geospatial and remote sensing (GeoPandas, Rasterio, rioxarray, GDAL), time series, simulation.
- Resume: View PDF
- Website: vborysenko.com
- LinkedIn: Volodymyr Borysenko
- Email: volodymyr_borysenko@berkeley.edu