About Me

Hi! I'm Cole. I am a passionate, determined, hard worker with an engineer's mind. I specialize in practical applications of computer vision.

In times past, I have always found myself at home considering how to make the world a better place without having to start from scratch. This led me to a childhood studying engineering and science, and from that early place I decided to work with computers.

In this day and age, being able to work with computers is like having a superpower. Understanding computers, the bits of data and the gates they flow through, enables us to see things that are invisible and change them.

From a more practical standpoint, I have experience in both functional and object-oriented programming, as well as a variety of languages. I am proficient in both Python and Java, and have done coursework in the following languages:

  • Python
  • Java
  • Raku
  • Kotlin
  • Prolog
  • Postscript
  • x86 assembly through the NASM compiler
  • R
  • MATLAB

Previous Work

I've done a lot of work on a lot of projects. Here are the highlights:

  • GPEA and its variants: Most recently, I have been employed by Utah State University's Crop Physiology Laboratory.

    Now what, you might ask, am I doing at a fancy greenhouse? Well, I am building innovative tools for the fancy greenhouse. I am focused on a computer vision system called GPEA, a system that regularly photographs plants and measures their growth rate based on those pictures. It's been a fun project. The current version is called GPEureka, and uses infrared lighting and cameras. A system that combines infrared and color photography is in the works. There is also a Django-based system that displays the data from this system on our university intranet.

    View gpea on GitHub

    View gpea-dataviewer on GitHub

  • Red, a JavaFX web browser, built for a GUI class:

    View Red on GitHub

  • A very simple PowerShell build script that I wrote because every build system I could find was overkill, at least at the time:

Experience

I've been working since I was 17, when I worked at Pierce College managing budgets and writing manuals.

Here are the highlights:

  • Crop Physiology Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan UT

    April 2021 to May 2022

    Hard work, delivering data and working within others' projects were highlights of my time at the Crop Physiology Laboratory. This is also where I got my feet wet with computer vision. I have since taken courses in computer vision and received college credit for the research I did there.

    In addition to my research, I also provided technical support to a large online course (~325 people) and my colleagues in the laboratory.

    One of my testing notebooks, for connected component cleanup, is included below:

  • Dining Services, Utah State University, Logan UT

    October 2019 to January 2021

    I learned to learn quickly, think on my toes, and make the right decisions quickly during my time at USU Dining Services. I also learned not to let perfect get in the way of complete.

  • Dining, Central Washington University, Ellensburg WA

    October 2018 to July 2019

    No work was too humble here; I started out cooking pizzas to order for students and was a trusted prep cook in the Catering department by the time I was done.

  • Grocery Outlet, Bonney Lake WA

    September 2016 to August 2018

    Hard work and keeping customers happy were the central lessons of my time at Grocery Outlet, a small supermarket. As a cashier and as a manager I spent a lot of time keeping customers happy.

  • Office of Student Life, Pierce College Puyallup, Puyallup WA

    August 2015 to June 2016

    My time here as Executive Director of Operations consisted of writing new operations manuals, managing budgets and advocacy campaigns, overhauling the office website, and taking on a number of small technical assignments.

Published Research

Files

References

  • Dr. Bruce Bugbee, Director, Crop Physiology Laboratory
  • Stephanie Rasmusson, former Store Manager, Grocery Outlet

Contact information available upon request.

Contact Me

I am best reached at my email, cole.webb@outlook.com.

My projects, including ongoing research, can be found at github.com/colewebb.

If your organization uses Handshake, my profile can be found at usu.joinhandshake.com/users/17549251.

I can be found on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/cole-webb.

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