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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

● Improving and researching speech-to-text systems focused on captioning for people with disabilities.● Conducted literature review on 20+ papers and wrote a research proposal outlining multilingual captioning applications.● Reproducing 2 existing complex neural networks involving sub-word modeling for code-switching captioning.

Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

● Developed and trained a dynamic pricing profit optimization LSTM model which predicted the quantity of items to be sold. The new model improved accuracy by more than 20% compared to existing methods. Utilized PyTorch and Databricks GPU.● Reduced the pricing engine’s latency by 700% by vectorizing Python scripts and benchmarking performance.● Developed FastAPI endpoints to better data ingestion from distributed storage, improving testing velocity for 15+ developers.

● Worked on developing Societas, an interactive website that connects people looking for passion projects. ● Helped program the front-end using React.js.

● Wrote and read Python scripts in order to clean, optimize, and analyze 6 years of student behavioral data.● Worked on research that will develop a system that gives academic enhancement recommendations to students.

● Developed 5 key features utilizing React.js and Material UI that were published to the LIMIS LLC website.● Worked with AWS Lambda, Node.js, Sequelize.js, and PostgreSQL backend to handle requests and create data associations.● Worked under Agile development methodology.

● Worked on the UW IAC website● Edited and analyzed documents related to the research process

● Applied through the SPARK SIP internship connector and earned a competitive position as one of 4 interns with a UW Bothell faculty member. Final report ultimately published on the GeekWire website (Top Tech Seattle Website).● Used data analysis and visualization techniques in R and Excel to find trends in the top 200 Pacific Northwest startups.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: IB Diploma Recipient, JSA Vice President, 2x DECA International Conference Qualifier, Sports Debate Club.