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Bella MicheleAllegriBella Michele Allegri, Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Neuroscience student.

I build tools that pay attention to how people learn and decide.

Northeastern University, Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Belfast, Northern Ireland / now

bellamallegri@gmail.com

The short version

I'm a first-year at Northeastern studying Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Neuroscience. I want to know what happens when a person learns something hard, and whether software can see it. Right now that's a chess trainer that models what you know instead of counting your puzzle streak. Before it: nine months on the electronics of Brown's Formula SAE car, and a summer of spaceflight omics at NASA GeneLab GL4HS.

The longer version

Right now

updated September 2026, Belfast

I'm at Queen's University Belfast for my first semester, COO & Cofounder of a non-profit, and finishing the IBM Generative AI Engineering certification. The chess trainer continues. January is Boston.

  1. METUCHEN, NJ/ home
  2. PROVIDENCE, RI/ non-profit, before the semester
  3. BELFAST, Northern Ireland/ now / queen's university
  4. BOSTON, MA/ january

Projects

  1. Chess trainerworking on it

    Chess apps count your puzzle streak and call it progress. Mine keeps a model of what you actually know and schedules positions with spaced retrieval. Between positions you talk through candidate moves out loud, the way strong players do. Built in 3D in Unreal Engine, and it reads your personality type. The goal is the useful part of a coach.

  2. Brown Formula Racingdone02. September 2025 to May 2026

    Nine months on the electronics subsystem of a Formula SAE car, a team I joined in high school. Most hours went to the wiring harness and electrical QA, plus a four-hour drive up from New Jersey most weekends.

  3. PKU dietary recommendation appdone03. Kean University, July 2025

    Built during a four-week research program. Phenylketonuria means tracking protein in nearly everything you eat, so meal planning is daily cognitive work. I built a hybrid recommender over 900+ foods and shipped it with Streamlit.

  4. NASA GeneLab GL4HS internshipdone04. Summer 2025

    A summer internship analyzing omics data from spaceflight experiments in Python. GeneLab is NASA's open repository of biology data from missions, gene expression from organisms that have been to space. The summer went to turning that raw data into something you can ask questions of.

Repos go up as I finish the write-ups. Email me if you want a look before then.

Full-bleed aerial still of the San Diego coastline.

From 400 feet

Aerial still from the drone reel: San Diego coastline seen from 400 feet.
SAN DIEGO, CA / 400 FT
Wide aerial view of open water and beach in San Diego, shot from high above.
SAN DIEGO, CA / 400 FT

All San Diego, California, shot on a DJI Mavic 3 Pro Cine. The drone and web design practice runs alongside the technical work. Aerial coverage or a site built, say so in the form.

Write to me

For summer 2027 I would love research or a first-year technical program. If your lab or team sits near human performance or human-AI systems, write to me. The form works, email is faster: bellamallegri@gmail.com