Andy Franck

Andy Franck

franck[at]oxy.edu

I'm Andy, a junior and triple major in math, computer science, and physics at Occidental College.

My research interests involve developing machine learning models for solving problems in the physical world. Much of my work has focused on addressing problems in environmental science, healthcare, and education.

This summer, I'm working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the EMIT GHG Machine Learning group, developing deep learning models for NO2 & NH3 plume detection.

I've been very fortunate to have several fantastic mentors support my research: John Lipor, Chris Cianci, Justin Li, and Joel Walsh.

When I'm not working a problem, you can find me out on the baseball diamond—I'm also a catcher at Occidental.

selected publications
Is Anyone Paying Attention? Automating Classroom Behavior Classification with Vision-Language Models

Is Anyone Paying Attention? Automating Classroom Behavior Classification with Vision-Language Models

Andrew Franck, Brendan Ng, Zane Derrod, Ben Fitzgerald, Chris Cianci, Chris Craney

In Progress

Neural Operators for Excitable Media Dynamics in FitzHugh-Nagumo Systems

Neural Operators for Excitable Media Dynamics in FitzHugh-Nagumo Systems

Andrew Franck, Justin Li

National Conference of Undergraduate Research(2026)

Deep Learning for Ocular Biometry from Ultrasound Images

Deep Learning for Ocular Biometry from Ultrasound Images

John Lipor, Hadi Khazaei, Andrew Franck, Danesh Khazaei, John Ng, Faryar Etesami