About the author

Olga Kuzmich is pursuing a combined BS/MS program at Johns Hopkins University in Applied Mathematics and Data Science. She wrote this book because it is the one she wished existed when she set out to understand how AI agents actually work. This book grows out of a simple conviction: the engineering behind a capable agent is far less magical than it looks, and anyone willing to build it one piece at a time can understand the whole thing.

Her hands-on work with agents includes contributing to nanobot — a lightweight personal AI agent that serves as a reference codebase in this book. She currently works at Dwellwell Analytics Inc. as a Data Science Engineering Intern, merging AI, hardware, and software to transform ordinary houses into data-driven, self-diagnosing environments. She writes about her experience as an early-career CS professional on her Medium blog, @okuzmich2005. Her previous research spans clinical predictive modeling and computer vision, with work appearing in venues including Open Forum Infectious Diseases and NeurIPS. She is a RISE Global Winner — a Schmidt Futures and Rhodes Trust program that selected roughly 100 people from some 80,000 applicants — and her early work has been covered by IEEE Entrepreneurship.

She loves oranges, cornflowers, and sparkling water.

Get in touch

Found a typo, have a question, or want to discuss a chapter? Open an issue or start a discussion on the book’s GitHub repository. You can also reach Olga by email at okuzmic1@jh.edu or connect on LinkedIn.