Max Moyle
Rio Grande Valley, Texas·mmoylemaish@icloud.com·github.com/maish17·linkedin.com/in/max-moyle·maxmoyle.org
Education
Science Academy of South Texas
Aug 2023 – May 2027High school diploma · Mercedes, TX
Rank 2/210 · ACT 36 · National Merit Semifinalist
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Jun 2025 – Apr 2027Dual enrollment · Edinburg, TX
GPA 4.00/4.00 over 15 courses
MathILy, Bryn Mawr College
Summer 2026Bryn Mawr, PA
Selective (about 7% admitted) residential program in inquiry-based, proof-based mathematics
Texas State Technical College
Sep 2023 – Apr 2025Waco, TX
Certificate in Computer Programming (Java Developer); completed April 2025, conferred with diploma
Research and experience
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Oct 2025 – presentStudent researcher, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
- Working on a 2013 conjecture about the determinants of cubic dissection matrices; preprint planned by the end of the fall 2026 semester
- Contributing proofs, and writing the Python tools the team uses to compute and check the matrices
Practicum in Applied Engineering
Aug 2025 – presentTeam lead, client engineering projects · Mercedes, TX
- Led a team prototyping an AR sand table for NerdVana, an education startup; modeled its sand drainage
- Delivered a modular Astro and Keystatic skeleton, finished homepage, and docs for NerdVana’s new site in one month
- Directed a four-person team maintaining the City of Progreso’s WordPress site and prototyping a React redesign
UT Austin, Learning Directed Operating Systems Lab
Summer 2026Student, Summer Academy for All: Machine Learning Edition · Austin, TX
- Built a scikit-learn classifier predicting I/O latency within a sub-100 ns inference budget
- Identified a data-leakage bug inflating accuracy in the lab’s research notebook; researchers adopted the fix
Projects
Heatwave: heat-aware navigation app
Sep 2025 – presentPython, OSMnx, GeoPandas, rioxarray, Node.js · heatwaves.app
- Built a heat-aware walking-navigation app as sole developer; won Texas’s 34th district Congressional App Challenge
- Designed a routing model that scores heat exposure from free national weather, sun-angle, and tree-canopy data
- Implemented custom Dijkstra-family routing on OpenStreetMap with R-tree snapping; more than 10,000 routes generated nationwide
NASA HUNCH: student engineering program
Aug 2025 – presentTypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Python
- Led a three-person team building an RFID check-in/check-out inventory system for long-duration deep-space missions
- Wrote the React/TypeScript client, Node.js API, and PostgreSQL schema; team named one of two national finalists
- Now leading a team on lunar-rover failure prediction; designed the architecture, 17 data schemas, and dashboard
Fall-risk balance platform: engineering design capstone
Aug 2026 – presentProject Lead The Way Engineering Design and Development
- Heading research and mathematical modeling for a low-cost computerized dynamic posturography system
- Designing an instrumented platform that perturbs balance to measure fall risk; working prototype due April 2027
Honors
- Congressional App Challenge winner, TX-34 (one of about 350 district winners nationwide)2026
- NASA HUNCH national finalist (one of the top two teams)2026
- National Merit Semifinalist2026
- UT Austin Texas Select Summit: school’s sole nominee; one of about 75 seniors selected statewide2026
- TSTC Java Developer certificate via P-TECH: one of 7 of about 40 in the first cohort to finish2025
Skills
- Languages
- Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Java, C, C++, Bash, HTML/CSS, LaTeX
- Libraries
- pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, GeoPandas, OSMnx, React, Node.js, Astro
- Tools
- Git/GitHub, PostgreSQL, Docker, Linux, WordPress, Keystatic, Vite, JSON Schema, OpenAPI
Leadership and activities
Mu Alpha Theta, mathematics honor society
Aug 2023 – presentVice president (2026–27); treasurer (2025–26) · Mercedes, TX
- Grew membership about threefold in one year; co-created the school’s annual Differentiation and Integration Bees
- Design a year-long, 16-meeting curriculum and give biweekly lectures; write problems for three school competitions a year
Peer Study Community
Aug 2023 – May 2025Founder and lead tutor · a group of more than 40 members (calculus, physics, history, CS) · Mercedes, TX
Service: weekly tutoring for middle-school students; more than 30 hours of outreach with Voices for Democracy RGV