Richard Dao has a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz. His research interests include autonomous vehicle path planning and spiking neural networks. He currently participates in two labs with Dr. Leilani H. Gilpin and Dr. Jason Eshraghian respectively. While being active in research, Richard also works fulltime as a Software Engineer at Covenant Services Worldwide. He looks to pursue a Masters degree in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.