Yago Romano

AI engineer. Agentic systems, multimodal evaluation, reinforcement learning.

I build agentic AI systems end to end, from multimodal VLM benchmarks and reinforcement learning training pipelines to production LLM applications that plug into real enterprise workflows. Currently an AI Engineering Intern at HCA Healthcare, with an M.S. in computer science and three IEEE papers across LLM agents, autonomous vehicle perception, and robotics security.

Right now: building the environment that trains and grades vision-language model agents on real desktop software.

Experience

Where I have worked and what I built there.

  1. AI Engineering InternHCA Healthcare

    Jan 2026 to presentCookeville, TN

    Building agentic AI systems end to end: a benchmark and reinforcement learning environment for evaluating multimodal VLM agents on real enterprise workflows, plus a production LLM assistant for data governance.

  2. Graduate Research AssistantTennessee Technological University

    May 2024 to Aug 2025Cookeville, TN

    Autonomous vehicle perception and robotics security research, covering YOLOv8 and LiDAR-camera fusion in the CARLA simulator and a supply chain attack against Secure ROS 2. Produced two IEEE papers, at ISCAS 2025 and MILCOM 2025.

  3. Graduate Teaching AssistantTennessee Technological University

    Jan 2024 to Jul 2025Cookeville, TN

    Mentored students in algorithms, machine learning, and data analysis, and designed assignments around live LLM inference and real-world API datasets.

Projects

Systems I have built, most significant first. Each one has a write-up covering how it works.

TensorFlow

DCGAN on CelebA

Deep Convolutional GAN in TensorFlow trained on CelebA to generate realistic human face images.

View on GitHub
Reinforcement Learning

Snake AI (Dyna-Q)

Classic Snake game implemented with the Dyna-Q reinforcement learning algorithm.

View on GitHub
Distinguished Design Award

WW1 VR Experience

A Unity VR reconstruction of World War I battlefields built with a six-person team for Alvin C. York State Park, winner of the Distinguished Design Award.

Research

Peer-reviewed papers across LLM agents, autonomous vehicle perception, and robotics security. Each one links to the project it came from.

Contact

Reach out or take a look at my work through the links below.