Monte Hoover

Hi everyone! I'm a Masters student studying Machine Learning and Computer Vision and I'm thrilled to be at UMD. I'm taking a break from my work at Microsoft to do grad school full time and pursue research in 3D Reconstruction. I chose UMD because of the professors and the quality of research happening here, and my mentor at Microsoft got his PhD here so it can’t be bad. I originally chose computer science in undergrad because I was delighted by the feeling of getting code to compile for the first time, and I’ve been hooked ever since.

Outside of work I enjoy bicycling and backpacking. If anyone else bike commutes from northwest DC let me know. And I’m always up for a bike ride in the city or an easy going ride on the trails around UMD if anyone is interested.