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New York, NY, US

Los Angeles, California, US

Cambridge, MA, US

• Helped run the 200-person class “Elements of Software Construction,” a course aimed at juniors and seniors to teach how to write software that is easy to understand, safe from bugs, and ready for change
• Tested course materials, ran weekly office hours, helped students in class, and organized course logistics

• Implemented new workflow for verifying matches to misinformation content using URL metadata
• Wrote, tested, and integrated new API into existing infrastructure, working across three different codebases
• Built data pipeline for automating workflow based on precision/recall analysis
• Employed iterative development, focusing on writing unit and integration tests by partitioning input space before deploying code

Redmond, Washington, US

• Excel Online: implemented user-facing feature for connecting filters to pivot tables
• Worked with client, server, and interop code, including marshaling objects between code layers

Paris, Ile-de-France, FR

• Visualized accelerometer data from fitness trackers worn by soccer players using Python
• Created LSTM classification models for determining location of tracker on an athlete’s body
• Built and integrated machine learning models to determine athletes’ scores on various fitness tests
• Updated framework to allow for more specific labeling of tracker data; included modifying JSON outputs from the backend API
• Reported progress and provided feedback as part of a daily standup meeting

Toronto, ON, CA

• Developed binary classification models in order to automate annotation process of legal documents.
• Used TFIDF, Bag of Words, Word Embeddings, and other methods to featurize input data.
• Processed over 11 million paragraphs for input into various natural language processing models.
• Used SVMs, RNNs, and FastText models in order to create final binary classifier.
• Visualized legal data in order to gain insights into important features.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Computer Science