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College Park, MD, US

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Undergraduate researcher working part-time in University of Pittsburgh’s ADMT Lab under Dr. Panos Chrysanthis
• Project 1: developing and coding a Covid-19 contact tracing algorithm which compares Wi-Fi fingerprints from phones using machine learning, in order to predict the phones’ proximity to each other
• Project 2: determining the viability of "postdiction" as a method to compress and recover database columns. Postdiction builds machine learning models which can predict columns of data within a certain threshold of.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Handling helpdesk tickets, system and server management, and software troubleshooting as the second IT employee in an 80-person company
• Collected employee knowledge into a formal IT manual for troubleshooting and used this knowledge-sharing to transition the company to outsourced IT labor

Springfield, Virginia, United States

• Supporting NGA's core mission of generating geospatial intelligence through data mining, automation, statistical analysis, and model creation
• Top Secret security clearance

• Developed pre-packaged machine learning capabilities (containerized using Docker) - specifically researched and tested open-source optical character recognition (OCR) technology which allows computers to read text from.
• Developed code to improve help-desk ticket assignment by using OCR on computer error screenshots. Built a Django web application which classified and assigned help ticket strategically using machine learning and.
• Researched and presented findings on applicable data governance software tools for use company-wide

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Research assistant under Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute, Professor Ross Harrison; gathered and synthesized research papers, news articles and primary sources on historical Iranian empires for his upcoming book on the foreign politics of Iran.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Independent research conducted with Professor Michael Colaresi (Chair, Dept. of Political Science) deconstructing his machine learning algorithm ViEWS, an early-warning system for conflict in Africa which uses geographic, political, economic data to predict political violence. Recreated the algorithm using the Python library scikit-learn as independent.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Served alongside Lexington’s mayor and local industry leaders as a youth advocate in Town Branch Partners, a diversity initiative to improve the inclusiveness of the developing $31 million downtown park. Interned with Town Branch Park, crafting programming and design recommendations from research on similar-sized, innovative parks across the globe.