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Sunnova Energy

I was at Sunnova in 2022 and 23 as a mobile developer focusing on business to franchise applications that assisted solar-panel-dealerships install equipment and receive commissioning checks.

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Michigan Covid-19 Dashboard

Worked as a project manager, recruiter, and software tester to create a Covid-19 dashboard for the Michigan Governors office. Collaborated with students, professors and admins from the University of Michigan; School of Information, School of Public Health, Art and Design, College of Engineering, Jackson Health, Google, and Ford Motor Company.

SciCrunch

For my senior year capstone in 2019 I worked with a team of UX designers + researchers on improving the usability of a biology search portal.

GoNana's Brand and Asset Creation

Worked with a team of graphic designers, UX designers, and marketing students to come up with a brand identity for GoNana's packaging as well as animations for their website

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Building a German AI Tutor App

A summer in Vienna, two months of German classes, a year of building on-device LLM apps, Google and IBM open-sourcing their most powerful on-device LLM's, and training my first German tutor model.

Kyle Essenmacher · July 2026

Publications

Birds of a Feather Flock Together: But do Humans and Robots? A Meta-Analysis of Human and Robot Personality Matching

Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE)

A Meta-Analysis of Human Personality and Robot Acceptance in Human-Robot Interaction

Computer Human Interaction (CHI)

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