Lauren DeMaio

Pace University Learning Commons

• Designed and deployed conversational AI voice agents for faculty use, including a donor relations simulation agent enabling students to practice high-stakes fundraising conversations with realistic AI-powered donor personas.
• Built and launched AI agents for tutor training programs focused on soft skills development; iterated on prompt design, conversation flows, and agent behavior to achieve target interaction quality.
• Developing an AI agent integrated with the LMS to assess student knowledge gaps through adaptive dialogue and proactively recommend tutoring resources.
• Collaborate with faculty to coordinate exam review sessions, test corrections, and math discussion courses (MAT100D).

Pace University Seidenberg School of CSIS

• Reworked the existing game development curriculum for Unity 6, teaching up to 30 undergraduate students 2D game design and C# scripting across sprites, tilemaps, collisions, physics, lighting, and audio. Included brief course section in 3D as well.
• Structured a project-based course where students build four complete games and a collaborative final project, with weekly playtesting and iterative design feedback loops.

Pace University Seidenberg School of CSIS

• Co-authored peer-reviewed publication on deploying a trained ANN to a severely resource-constrained physical device (NES, 1.79 MHz / 2 KB RAM), demonstrating expertise in model optimization and inference pipelines — presented at AIIDE 2025, Edmonton, Canada.
• Traveled to IdeaSquare at CERN to assist in teaching project-based, interactive learning methodologies as part of the Design Factory Global Network under Dr. Andreea Cotoranu.
• Graded projects, hosted office hours, and supported recruitment for the Game Development major.

Nespresso - Nestle

• Supervise daily operational tasks of 8 team members during the shift such as inventory checklists, safety awareness, cash & credit log management, and record keeping.
• Onboard the new team members to standard and boutique-specific operating procedures such as Training & Quality Management (TQM) guidelines.

Pace University Seidenberg School of CSIS

• Aid 70+ students in coursework labs, data structures understanding, and game development projects. Host office hours, grade exams and homework, read error code, and implement solutions as a learning experience under the supervision of Dr Carmine Guida.

DeRosa Performing Arts Center

• Teach children ages 3-18 in various styles and levels of dance (ballet, neoclassical, jazz, tap, contemporary, improv, lyrical, and hip-hop).
• Help children learn to engage in active and creative movement. Create a fun and positive environment for students.
• Choreograph dances for recreational programs as well as for competition programs.
• Gave private lessons to any students who would like extra training.
• Received 1st place overall and choreography award for junior large group musical theatre, Ladies Choice, and received 1st place overall for choreographing teen jazz trio, Big Spender, at Starbound Nationals 2022.

Pace University Seidenberg School of CSIS

GPA: 3.84/4.0

Pace University Seidenberg School of CSIS

GPA: 3.8

Joffrey Ballet School NYC

GPA: NA

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