Hello! My name is John Pesavento, although my friends call me Johnny.

I am a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, where I am a lecturer/officer in our Computer Security Club. In my free time, I enjoy designing websites, volunteering, and watching TV. Feel free to take a look at my projects below if you want to learn more!

Links

• GitHub: @jpes707
• Email: 2021jpesaven@tjhsst.edu

Publications

• Data-Driven Mobility Models for COVID-19 Simulation
  • Research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) about simulating the spread of COVID-19 in urban environments using a machine learning technique called Latent Dirichlet Allocation
  • Published/presented at the International Workshop on Advances in Resilient and Intelligent Cities of the 28th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020) in Seattle, WA on November 3, 2020
  • Primary project as part of George Mason University's Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program during the summer of 2020
  • DOI: doi.org/10.1145/3423455.3430305
  • Open access link: urbands.github.io/aric2020/ARIC2020_Paper4.pdf
  • Codebase: github.com/jpes707/safegraph-simulation
  • Research symposium archive (preliminary version): Symposium_topic_modeling.pdf
• Ensemble Learning Interpretation of COVID-19 Simulation Models Through Clustering Latent Feature Representations and Aggregated Time-Series Forecasts with Deep Learning
  • Research project about predicting the number of new COVID-19 cases per day using deep learning and ensemble modeling
  • Secondary project as part of George Mason University's Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program during the summer of 2020
  • Research symposium archive: Symposium_deep_learning.pdf
• New technique can enhance reliability for wireless device automation protocol
  • Worked with George Mason University PhD candidate Yoon Chae to create a news article about his research concerning the ZigBee wireless device automation protocol in May 2019
  • News publication archive: ZigBee_publication.pdf

Other projects

• Advanced travel search engine (in progress): vamonosa.com
• TJCTF cybersecurity competition (2020 and 2021 organizer): tjctf.org
• PartyScout website (HooHacks 2020): github.com/SahajV/partyscout
• 2020 Vision app (HackTJ 2019): devpost.com/software/sai-pranav
• Europe map game: europemapgame.sites.tjhsst.edu

Thank you for visiting my page!