Aidan Johnson

Hi! I am a Masters student at Washington State University (WSU), working in the Software Engineering Lab (SEL). My interest is in software design patterns and behaviors, particularly how the aspects of good design that are often taken for granted actually impact developer cognition and performace. I’m also interested in how different programming paradigms/styles (e.g. Functional Programming, Data-Driven, etc.) influence developer cognition as well.

My undergraduate study was in Computer Science, with a focus on software engineering and data science.

Outside of academia, I am a fan of the Seattle Mariners, astronomy/astrophotography, and 3D modeling (including the background of this page!)

Languages I’m working with right now

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Python C# Java Racket (Scheme)

Languages I’ve worked with before

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JavaScript Haskell Kotlin

Current Projects

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Fog-of-War Chess Playing AI Agent

Python Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning

Comparing multiple machine learning methods for learning to play Dark Chess (where a player can only see the spaces their pieces can move).

Java Design Pattern Paper

Java Design Patterns Developer Performance

An on-going paper relating to OOP design patterns in Java projects

Past Projects

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Galaxy Image Denoiser ↗ ↖

6 December 2025

Python PyTorch Machine Learning

A data processing pipeline for upscaling and denoising images of galaxies.

FuelBEACON ↗ ↖

6 May 2025

Python OCR QWEN-2

My undergraduate capstone, an automated system for extracting handwritten text from logistical forms.

Twitter Sentiment Analysis Classifier

Python Machine Learning Deep Learning

Comparing multiple traditional machine learning and deep learning methods for identifying the sentiment of a dataset of tweets.