{"id":11919,"date":"2025-11-07T11:35:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/?page_id=11919"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:10:47","slug":"oliver-macdonald","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/about-us\/computingdirectory\/current-students-directory\/oliver-macdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver MacDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"493\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/981\/2025\/07\/Oliver_Headshot-Oliver-MacDonald.jpeg\" alt=\"Oliver MacDonald, Computing PhD Student, Computational Math Science and Engineering emphasis.\" class=\"wp-image-11108\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-education\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Emphasis in Computational Math Science and Engineering<br>B.S. Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-biography\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">I earned my B.S. in Engineering\u202fPlus\u202fRobotics at\u202fBoise State University, focusing on robotics. Working alongside students on the Autonomous Robotics Team and drawing on my cross-disciplinary experience in the art world, I became interested in systems engineering, which ultimately led me into HMI research.<br><br>Outside the lab, I\u2019m deeply involved in the local founder community through the company I co-founded, QTex AI. That entrepreneurial ecosystem continues to shape my research approach and fuels my passion for innovating at the intersection of human-machine interaction and cutting-edge technology for real-world applications.<br><br><a class=\"\" href=\"mailto:olivermacdonald@u.boisestate.edu\">olivermacdonald@u.boisestate.edu<\/a><br><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/coen-cs\/people\/faculty\/hoda-mehrpouyan\/\">Advisor: Dr. Hoda Mehrpouyan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Emphasis in Computational Math Science and EngineeringB.S. Engineering Biography I earned my B.S. in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3544,"featured_media":0,"parent":12366,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11919","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12484,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11919\/revisions\/12484"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}