Currently

I am a junior at Florida State University pursuing a double major in Economics and Computer Science.

I have previous internship experience in startup growth, trading, and AI automation. On campus, I've pursued machine learning research and tutored student athletes in math, programming, and economics classes.

Some of my interests include boxing, music creation, and the Rubik's Cube.

Experience

February 2026 – Present

Quantitative Research Intern
Orion Alpha Asset Management

Fundamental & quant-focused investment startup

September 2025 – February 2026

Applied AI Automation Intern
Executive Office of the Governor – State of Florida

AI/LLM automation for finance and policy analysis

January 2025 – December 2025

Academic Tutor
Florida State University

College Algebra, Calculus, Statistics, and Programming I

May 2025 - September 2025

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Florida State University

Graph Neural Network Model Extraction Attacks

December 2024 – April 2025

Product & Strategy Intern
Stitch AI

Educational startup that translates students' notes into visual learning tools

Projects

Turkish Auto Price Predictor • Python (Sci-kit Learn, Numpy, Pandas, yfinance)

90%+ accurate linear regression model that predicts secondhand Turkish car prices using a Kaggle dataset. I Engineered a data preprocessing pipeline to enhance data organization and prediction accuracy by imputing missing variables, filtering outliers, and one-hot encoding categorical data. GitHub →

Rubik's Cube Simulator • C++

A 3x3 Rubik's Cube simulator that performs movements via official Rubik's Cube notation (ex: R B' U2) queried by the user and competition-legal scrambles using an algorithm I built that matches the official World Cube Assication's standards. GitHub →

Movement (AI ATL 2025 Hackathon) • Swift, Python

iPhone application that tracks AirPod and iPhone movement and acceleration to identify and count workout repetition to help acheive users' fitness goals. We created the data ourselves by recording our own movement and training the model using Sci-kit learn. GitHub →

FSU War Chant Remix • FL Studio

A bit different from my coding projects...I produced a house remix of Florida State University's football chant, "The War Chant". It was used by the FSU Athletic Department in a promotional video for the 2024 fall football season. You can also stream the full remix on SoundCloud here →

Education

Florida State University • Tallahassee, FL

Bachelor of Science in Economics & Computer Science

American Heritage High School • Delray Beach, FL

Lighting/Audio Engineering Scholarship ~$120,000

Foreign Languages

English • Native

Mandarin Chinese • Fluent

Slovak/Czech • Conversational

Interests

Boxing

DJing

Drums

Foreign Languages

Guitar

Pi Digits

Piano

Rubik's Cube Tournaments

Skateboarding

Typing

Video & Music Production

Weightlifting

Contact

You can email me at ryan.k.baiano@gmail.com. I'm on GitHub too.