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Michael
Paglia

Capital District2016–2024

From sneaker bots to research.

At 16, I started building sneaker bots. The reselling business grew to six figures and helped pay my way through college.

The folks at UAlbany’s Data Management and Mining Lab took me in, and I learned faster there than I ever had before. I loved learning how we could take complex data apart and reconstruct it. It’s my fondest memory of UAlbany, and I’m still grateful to the people who made it possible.

Education & early work
2020–2024
B.S. in Computer Science from UAlbany, summa cum laude
2023
Software Engineer at Regeneron
2024
NSF Research Fellow at Data Management and Mining Lab

At UAlbany, I contributed to PySpady, a Python library for sparse coding.

I later did cardiovascular research with Dr. Ramon Bossardi Ramos at Albany Medical College.