Aly Mankowski is an R&D engineer on Kitware’s Computer Vision Team located in Clifton Park, New York. With a focus on machine learning, she develops robust solutions that can perform in the real-world. She helps validate, optimize, and deploy advanced exploitation algorithms.

Prior to joining Kitware, Aly was an independent contractor at Wild Me where she performed R&D using computer vision and machine learning techniques to identify wildlife. This included tasks like individual verification, ranking, and self-supervised learning. Aly was also a software engineering intern at Datto for the core device team, where she updated code for data backup devices.

Aly received her master’s degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2022. Her master’s thesis focused on evaluating wildlife identification algorithms in an environment representative of what we expect to see in the real world. In 2020, Aly received her bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics.