Team & Contact

The two-person core team driving the HuskyBot initiative at St. Cloud State University.

Project Team

A lean, focused team combining academic research leadership with hands-on engineering.

Professor Ning Hou

Lead Researcher

St. Cloud State University

Provides academic direction and research oversight for the HuskyBot initiative, ensuring rigor in LLM training methodology, evaluation, and alignment with library and university research goals.

Gustavo Valdez Paez

Lead Developer & Project Coordinator

St. Cloud State University

Owns end-to-end engineering: model fine-tuning, RAG pipeline, chatbot interface, deployment, and downloadable model packaging. Coordinates timeline, budget, and stakeholder communication.

Academic team collaboration at a university meeting

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We welcome partnerships from across the university and beyond.

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