Cole Pridgen, who hails from Midlothian, Virginia, is among the college’s more than 1,977 Spring 2026 graduates who will earn their bachelor’s degree from the Department of Scientific Computing. During his time at FSU, through the University Honors Program, he completed the honors in the major thesis, “Evaluating State of the Art Deep Learning Methods for the Classification of Malignant Lymphoma Subtypes.”
“I began my research when I was diagnosed with Burkitt's lymphoma in April 2025,” Pridgen said. “My work focused on experimenting with various convolutional neural network models, deep learning models that specialize in analyzing visual data, and assessing their classification capabilities to organize data by values on the three main lymphoma subtypes: chronic lymphocytic leukemia, follicular lymphoma and mantle cell lymphoma. This experience was impactful toward not just my diagnosis but also understanding the importance of high-level accuracy within clinical applications and the use of computational methods in medical practice.”
This summer, Pridgen will return to Hatch — a company for service businesses working to implement artificial intelligence agents across calls, texts, and emails to drive conversion across the customer experience — where he previously completed an internship as a revenue analyst, as a business operations analyst. In the fall, Pridgen will pursue his master’s in data science at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science in New York City.
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