Rau is a 4th year Computer Science and German major at the University of Arkansas. He has completed a majority of the core CSCE courses including courses such as Algorithms and Software Engineering. Additionally, he is currently taking Artificial Intelligence which could prove to be useful when working with AWS Rekognition and building additional gesture recognition systems. 

He will be responsible for assisting in the implementation of AWS Rekognition and for the machine learning models. 

Outside of classes, Rau works at Affirma as a Software Engineer Intern working on a variety of projects including frontend design and business data processing.