Ariela Deleon Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Remote from NY
• Illustrated cybersecurity topics to increase resource accessibility among underserved communities, compiling topics while coding a Caesar cipher decryption scheme
• Coordinated logistics for private/public partnerships in collaborations with Apple, CPS, City Colleges, NU and DFSS in a city-wide App Development with Swift initiative, serving 200+ youth among 4 curricula over 6.
• Designed a social-media marketing campaign, resulting in a 6% increase in email engagement and 5.8k+ livestream viewers for the end-of-summer event

Evanston, Illinois, United States

• Partly remote from NY
• Led 60 elementary and middle school girls through weekly, hands-on STEM activities, alongside 9 mentors
• Instructed advanced topics, including: coding, 3D printing, laser cutting, circuitry, sensor integration and drone work

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• "Chicago Park District Virtual Camps powered by STEAMbassadors Let’s HoMaGo (Hang Out, Mess Around, and Geek Out)" | Remote from NY
• Directed our Swift Coding Club in virtual sessions covering 4 basic coding concepts and drone work over 6 weeks
• Enhanced and taught Apple's curriculum to a small cohort of 8 elementary and middle school learners

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• InStep Global Internship Program | Remote from NY
• Constructed 3 NLP programs to perform topic identification analysis over email, twitter and chat log datasets, each containing 100,000+ documents per corpora
• Implemented the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm to build a model over each corpus to extract 10 relevant topics, determine frequency distributions, and sort the documents into 3 categories
• Applied unigram tokenization, lemmatization, hypertuning and visualization to topic modeling method using Python to optimize business performance and strategies

Evanston, Illinois, United States

• Evaluated course assignments and exams for 95 students in collaboration with 9 team members over 12 weeks
• Facilitated weekly office hours to answer drop-in questions regarding 5 assignments, 5 labs and preparation for 2 exams

Evanston, IL

• Collected, cleaned-up, analyzed and visually-represented survey data for 2 annual studies using Excel
• Maintained the accuracy of the internal database by updating the profiles of candidates and clients daily
• Assisted in office operations, such as sending out daily call accounting reports and restocking supplies