Patrick Butler, PhD

900 N Glebe Rd
Computer Science Dept., Virginia Tech
Arlington, Va 22203
Work: 540-585-4287

Who am I?

I am currently a Senior Research Associate (research faculty) at Virginia Tech and am part of the Sanghani Center there. I work in the realm of machine learning and artificial intelligence. These days a lot of my work revolves around Large Language Models (LLMs), time series forecasting, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to make predictions using unstructured data. It can be kind of hard to pin me down as I tend to work on a variety of projects. At work I describe myself as a jack of all trades and master of some or an AI/ML pinch hitter. Naren Ramakrishnan was my advisor and is my current supervisor. I have also done some research in distributed data storage, and computer security. Although not strictly research, I have also had a strong interest in computer and network security, and robotics. I have a pretty good grounding in system architecture design as well.

Interests

Outside of work my hobbies include 3D Printing and experimenting on wacky, nerdy things that I don't normally get paid to do.

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Due to time constraints, I don't participate in most of these terribly much, but they are perhaps worth a mention.