Chris Collazo, M.S.
Programmer, Software & Data Engineer
Florida, USA
Programmer and language enthusiast. I enjoy exploring how software can most practically model and affect reality. I enjoy functional languages, especially the Lisp family, and adapting their principles for building software with native-compiled systems languages. I enjoy extracting maximum performance from abstractions which simplify, such as Nim's single-ownership value semantics.
Talks
- The Virtues of Values (NimConf 2026) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki4-kbSCnXs
- Describing how Nim's functional and value semantics enable memory-safe, clean, high-performance programs.
- Slides
Open Source
- nimgnuplot - https://github.com/nervecenter/nimgnuplot
- A Nim library for generating gnuplot plots from Datamancer dataframes.
- Docs: https://nervecenter.github.io/nimgnuplot
Publications
- Collazo, C., Vargas, I., Cara, B., Weinheimer, C. J., Grabau, R. P., Goldgof, D., Hall, L., Wickline, S. A., & Pan, H. (2024). Synergizing Deep Learning-Enabled Preprocessing and Human–AI Integration for Efficient Automatic Ground Truth Generation. MDPI Bioengineering, 11(5), 434. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11050434
- Summary: We formulate a “self-improvement” process for a convolutional segmentation model wherein it iteratively normalizes and retrains on its training data, called bootstrapping, improving its accuracy over time.
- PDF • Source code
- Collazo, C., Vargas, I., Cara, B., Weinheimer, C. J., Grabau, R. P., Goldgof, D., Hall, L., Wickline, S. A., & Pan, H. (2019). Transferrable Deep Learning Algorithms for Identifying Area At Risk in Acute Myocardial Infarction. Abstract. Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation, Deep Learning in Microstructural Imaging (Oral), BMES Annual Meeting 2019.
Hobby
Board Games
- 6mm Kinetic (Unfinished Prototype) - A 6mm tabletop wargame inspired by BattleTech and OnePageRules. Made using Typst. Most definitely unfinished. Steel Rift came along, and is much more clever and cinematic while hitting all the gameplay beats I wanted to. Play that instead. :)
- PDF - Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Rules Sheets & Summaries - For the sake of clarity and conciseness, I've enjoyed compressing board games rules to one sheet or small brochures and nicely laying them out using Typst, or in one case, RelaxedJS. These sheets are released under CC BY-SA 4.0.