Hey there. I'm Zachary Taylor, a serial entrepreneur & digital numismatist.
I am the co-founder and CEO/CTO of Hydrotek, a connected fitness startup that makes hydration tracking easy for endurance athletes.
I lead the Computer-Aided Die Study (CADS), a digital humanities project at the American Numismatic Society that blends computer vision and classical studies to help numismatists identify groups of ancient coins struck by the same die.
You can view a talk I gave on the topic here, or perhaps read my thesis.
Publications and Talks
- New Developments in the Computer-Aided Die Study (INC 2022) [talk] [code]
- The Computer-Aided Die Study (CADS): A Tool for Conducting Numismatic Die Studies With Computer Vision and Hierarchical Clustering [pdf] [talk] [code]
- KDP: A Distributed Pipeline Processing Tool for Kubernetes [pdf] [talk] [code]
- Cloud Processing of PDS Archival Products With Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, and Elasticsearch [pdf] [talk]
- Experiments in Transferring, Validating, and Releasing Mars 2020 Mission Archival Multi-Media and Imagery Data Deliveries in the Cloud [pdf] [talk]
- Machine Learning and Data Integration for Flood Monitoring [pdf]
News
Computer Aided Die Study
- The ANS at the XVI International Numismatic Congress in Warsaw, Poland (ANS Pocket Change)
- Computer Science and Classical Studies Make the Perfect Research Pair at Trinity (Trinity News)
- The Computer Aided Die Studies Program (ANS Pocket Change)
HydroTek
- STEM Showcase: HydroTek Tara Lujan (SA Woman)
- Go With the Flow: 2020 Stumberg champion Sapphire stays adaptable, learns from tough lessons (Trinity News)
- Startup Proposing 'Smart' Lid Wins $25,000 Grand Prize in Trinity University Competition (San Antonio Sentinel)
- 'Smart' lid for water bottles takes home grand prize at Trinity University startup competition (San Antonio Report)
- Drinking enough water? This student startup won $25k with the same idea (San Antonio Business Journal)
- Smart Water-Bottle Lid Company Sapphire Wins Stumberg Competition $25,000 Prize at Trinity University (Startups San Antonio)
- Trinity University Adapts to the COVID-19 Pandemic with Virtual Stumberg Competition (Startups San Antonio)