I’m Tylen, a Computer Science student entering my 4th year at the University of Guelph. Currently, I’m an Applied AI Engineer Intern at CIBC, on the Incubation & Technical Delivery team.

Currently, I’m a Founding Software Engineer at xOrbita, where I’ve been developing core orbital-analysis and tracking software for AVERA-ARBITER, xOrbita’s platform for space situational awareness. AVERA-ARBITER is designed to ingest observations and orbital data from multiple sensors, correlate those observations to tracked objects, determine and refine their orbits, and propagate their trajectories over time. The platform uses this information to maintain custody of satellites and debris, identify potential conjunctions, assess collision risk, and support trajectory and avoidance planning—providing operators with actionable decision-support for monitoring and responding to activity in orbit.

Recently, our pre-seed round was backed by Pareto Holdings, and EWOR, bringing two incredible investors onto our cap table and marking an exciting step forward as we continue building AVERA-ARBITER and expanding xOrbita’s space situational awareness capabilities.

Throughout my undergraduate studies, I’ve had the opportunity to contribute to research across machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and natural language processing. This work has been carried out across several research labs under the supervision of the following faculty members:

• Dr. Daniel Gillis, where I developed an NLP pipeline for identifying and analyzing soft-skill requirements in career and co-op job postings using theSkillSpan/JobBERT span-extraction model.
• Dr. Elif Acar, where, as an NSERC USRA researcher, I developed and evaluated statistical methods in R for comparing median survival times under dependent censoring, with a focus on randomization- and permutation-based testing procedures.
• Dr. Ying Zou, where I conduct research with theSoftware Evolution & Analytics Lab (SEAL) at Queen's University on agentic AI and LLM-based approaches for software engineering workflows.

Furthermore, I've been actively involved in several student clubs and organizations at the University of Guelph, that have allowed me to contribute to projects and my community, including:

• Guelph Rocketry Team, as its Avionics Team Lead, where I was tasked with leading the development of CubeSat flight software, & hardware.
• IBM Z Ambassador, where I promoted IBM’s mainframe technology, and Z/OS platform, as well as empower fellow students to explore enterprise-level computing.
• The Society of Computing and Information Sciences, as its Vice President Financial, where I managed the allocation of funding and grants for Guelph's SOCS affiliated clubs and organizations.
• Guelph Cyber Security Society, as its Vice President, where I oversaw, and organized general club operations and activities.