Kelsey Sikes

Ph.D. student at Colorado State University


RESUME

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Positions

  • Graduate Research Assistant, Colorado State University, 2024-present
  • FM-Sequential Decision Making & Efficient Goal Driven Behavior Intern, IBM Research, Summer 2025
  • AI & Planning Intern, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Summer 2024
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Colorado State University, 2023-2024
  • Data Science Intern, Mountain Data Group, Summer 2023
  • Content Author, Anheuser-Busch, 2021-2022
  • Web Developer, Muv, 2018-2021
  • Producer, What Drives Winning, 2016-2018

Education

  • Colorado State University, Ph.D. in Computer Science (in progress)
  • Colorado State University, MS in Computer Science, 2025
  • University of Missouri-Saint Louis, BS in Media & Pierre Laclede Honors College Certificate, 2015

Certificates

  • BlueDot Impact, Certificate in Technical AI Safety, 2026
  • Savvy Coders, Certificate in Front-End Web Development, 2018

Honors & awards

  • The Mark McDonough Memorial Scholarship, University of Missouri-Saint Louis, 2015
  • Dennis Bohnenkamp Scholarship, University of Missouri-Saint Louis, 2013
  • NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Scholarship, University of Missouri-Saint Louis

Other activities

  • Team Member, Startup Grind, 2019-2020
  • Video Producer, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2014-2015
  • Board Member, NCAA Student-Athlete Association Council (SAAC), 2012-2013

Technical Skills

ML & AI:

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, Scikit-Learn, Gymnasium, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn


Languages:

Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, PDDL, HTML/CSS


Design & Web:

Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, etc.), Final Cut Pro, WordPress, Flask


Tools:

Linux/Unix, Jupyter Notebooks, GitHub/Git, Qualtrics/Prolific


Professional Services

Reviewed For:

  • The Forty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Main Track, Montreal, Canada, 2027.
  • The Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Main Track, Singapore, 2026.
  • Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), The 2nd Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Goal Understanding in Robotics (SemRob), Los Angeles, CA, 2025

Workshop-Facilitator:

  • The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), From Human Cognition to AI Reasoning: Models, Methods & Applications, Rio De Janiero, Brazil, 2026.

Volunteer:

  • The Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Main Track, Singapore, 2026.
  • The Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Planning in the Era of Large Language Models, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2025.

Invited Talks:

  • “Building an AI Tutor to Support Colorado Native Bees,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Dec. 2025