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Seattle, Wa

I research how to use machine learning and data analytics to help individuals and doctors better understand and make decisions based on health data. Advised by James Fogarty.

Internship with Google Health/Fitbit. Created an end to end ML sandbox tool supporting ranking and classification experiments on personal health data.

New York, New York, United States

Worked as a research intern with Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach in the FATE group at Microsoft Research. Conducted qualitative studies to explore how experienced users use machine learning interpretability tools and the pitfalls they experience during use.

Boulder, Co

TA for Computer Systems CSCI 2400. Helped to create homework assignments, labs, quizzes, and tests. Conducted interview grading for all lab assignments, held office hours, and planned and taught weekly recitation lessons to 24 student classes. Topics taught include binary numbers, floating point numbers, computer arithmetic, assembly language, pipelining, performance optimization, caching, shell signals, virtual memory, and linking.

Boulder, Co

Helped build, develop, and test Wise Cork app from scratch. In charge of data research and acquisition including writing web scrapers in Python and Swift. Implemented barcode scanner incorporated with multiple web scrapers. Won Best Capstone Project and Most Professional Team awards at CU computer science senior capstone expo.

Greater Seattle Area

Worked in Innovation Lab to build a retail customer experience bot using Microsoft Bot Framework, LUIS, and Dynamics AX API. Worked with team to design and implement SharePoint site to assign internal projects.

Created algorithm to generate human blood glucose curves to test artificial pancreas using delay coordinate embedding, time series analysis, and k-nearest neighbors techniques. Won poster contest at Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing conference 2016.

Debugged and analyzed internet service provider performance data on SQL database. Edited and fact-checked Measuring Broadband America 2015 Report. Researched and counseled co-workers on reliability of IP geolocation.

Boulder, Colorado

Working to streamline data collection software on the Student Dust Counter on NASA's New Horizons mission. Updated software using Bash and Python to prepare data for analysis.

Anchorage, Alaska Area

Worked with client to integrate new technology with current operations. Independently designed website using GoDaddy website builder which improved website usability and company visibility.

Santa Barbara, California

Independently programmed and oversaw operations of CNC milling machine which increased solar cell geometric efficiency by over 5%. Learned and programmed operations for Arduino system using G Code. Collaborated with senior scientists to solve solar cell manufacturing problems.

Ph.D. In Computer Science

Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction, Applied Machine Learning, Data Science, Interpretability, Healthcare

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Gpa: 4.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: Engineering Honors Program, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society, CU Women's Crew Team

Education record

Activities and Societies: Dean's List