Melissa Umble
AI/ML Software Engineer • University of Utah
Recent Computer Science graduate specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with experience in AI security and bioinformatics research, data pipeline development, and building full-stack, AI-enabled applications.
Experience
Kahlert School of Computing (SaLT Lab)
📄 Paper Submission Targeted: April 2026
ML Security Research Assistant
- Co-authored a paper on LLM security, currently in preparation for submission.
- Evaluated 8+ LLM configurations against prompt-injection attacks across 6 NLP tasks, executing thousands of adversarial prompts.
- Engineered experiments using prompt engineering, soft-prompt embeddings, and tokenization strategies to evaluate the effectiveness of intellectual property mitigation techniques.
- Leveraged HPC clusters (SLURM) to optimize ML pipelines for reproducibility.
Visualization:
Huntsman Cancer Institute
AI & Bioinformatics Research Assistant
- Built scalable Python pipelines for AI-driven protein design inference supporting 60,000+ candidates.
- Automated model execution, preprocessing, and evaluation to narrow 1,000+ designs down to top 10 candidates.
- Developed analytics and visualizations to present model behavior and accelerate inference validation and experiment planning.
Visualization:
Featured Project
Roof: Property Management App
Best Project: School of Computing Demo Day
(1st of 25+ teams, December 2025)
(1st of 25+ teams, December 2025)
Built a full-stack, cross-platform Flutter application with a team of 4. Led development of 40+ features across 10 Agile sprints, owning feature design and implementation end-to-end, including LLM-powered document summarization enabling automated analysis of property and tenant documents.
Education
University of Utah
B.S. Computer Science (AI Track)
GPA: 3.782 • Dean's List
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Exchange Program, History Minor
Technical Skills
Languages
Python
Java
C++
C#
SQL
Dart
JavaScript
AI / Machine Learning
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Scikit-learn
Hugging Face
AlphaFold2
BoltzGen
Tools & Development
LaTeX
Pandas
NumPy
VS Code
Xcode
Jupyter
Conda
SLURM (HPC)
Git
Docker
Firebase
Flutter
Interests
Alpine Skiing
Mountain Biking
Tennis
Coffee
Tour de France