Isabelle (Izzy) Wagenvoord
I am a computer science paraprofessional at the Mathematics and Computer Science department at Colorado College, where I hold office hours for all core introductory and advanced CS courses, and assist with administrative duties and communications. Last May, I received the Stephen Janke Prize from Colorado College for the top graduating senior in computer science. I have completed 3 NSF-funded summer research internships on remote sensing, time series analysis, vector representations, and machine learning for medical image analysis. My research interests are primarily in computer vision and machine learning.
publications
experience
AUGUST 2025 — MAY 2026
Computer Science Paraprofessional | Colorado College
Hold office hours for all core introductory and upper level CS courses, assist faculty, communicate and organize department events, and fulfill administrative duties.
JANUARY 2025 — MAY 2025
Quantitative Reasoning Center Tutor | Colorado College
Hold office hours for Theory of Computation and Computer Science II and work weekly shifts during drop-in hours at quantitative reasoning center to answer homework questions.
MAY 2024 — AUGUST 2024
Research Intern | Michigan State University
Fine-tuned pre-trained 3D SwinUNETR (Swin transformers and U-Net architectures) computer vision machine learning model using lab dataset of 56 clinically annotated post-surgery MRI images of brain tumor patients.
MAY 2023 — AUGUST 2023
Research Intern | University of North Texas
First coauthor on paper analyzing 8 years of nationwide power outage time-series data for 3000+ counties by algorithmically identifying outage events and finding seasonal patterns using Python and Jupyter. Integrated and analyzed with socioeconomic data. Trained and optimized 10 autoencoders for academic study using TensorFlow and Optuna on host university’s supercomputing cluster.
MAY 2022 — MAY 2024
Research Intern | University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Optimized coefficients for irrigation statistical models with Pymoo, Python, and Pandas, preprocessed Sentinel-1 satellite imagery into a 300-raster time series, and built linear models (R2 up to 0.67) to predict rice leaf area index from remote-sensing data.
awards
- Stephen Janke Prize in Computer Science, Colorado College 2025
Awarded to the graduating senior who best demonstrates exceptional talent, breadth of achievement, and academic excellence in Computer Science. - Fulbright Research Semifinalist (Selected as Alternate Candidate) 2025
Proposal: Using NeRFs and Gaussian Splatting for adversarial self-driving environment simulation with Professor Florian Shkurti at University of Toronto, Canada. - Best Poster Award, Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Data Challenge 2023
- Colorado College Euclid Scholarship 2022
Awarded to students who show exceptional promise in mathematics or computer science (17 out of 112 nominations).