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Dublin, CA, US

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Prioritizing projects for 300+ researchers and connecting with product teams that can utilize their research serving as the bridge between product and research withing Verizon Media and the broader Verizon company use cases.

San Francisco Bay Area

Yahoo Finance (July 2019 - July 2020)Working on ML initiatives for the core Yahoo Finance product Machine Learning Platform (July 2018 - July 2019)Created an internal Kaggle-like machine learning competition platform reaching international offices and high approval ratings from competitors (A Net Promoter Score of 73). With the challenges, I lead a 6-week.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Designed and ran an infant intervention study using a NAO robot to positively influence infant movement patterns and support neurodevelopmental outcomesClassified typical and atypical neurodevelopment of infants based on leg movement recording

Greater Los Angeles Area

Designed a robotics curriculum for a 24-week after school program for 75 4th grade students attending 3 different low-resourced schools in Los Angeles, and hired 12 mentors to work with students. Throughout the year, I led monthly training sessions for the mentors, and instituted weekly progress reports from mentors and adjusted future curriculum according.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Taught 20 high school students in a 7 week intensive introduction to computer science. In the final two weeks, I guided 5 groups from brainstorming through Scrum development practices to final minimum viable software products on iOS, Android, and Unity platforms. I also worked with Girls Who Code headquarters to donate the 20 laptops to the girls in my.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Led groups of about ten students (age 8 through 16) in computer animation and app development. As the IT Specialist, I assisted the students with troubleshooting their programs and also designed programming challenges to further develop their problem solving skills.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Developed an algorithmic approach to construct all 6 variable bent functions (used for error correction in communication protocols) using smaller subfunctions within a matter of minutes, a task that previously took months. In my honors thesis work,I introduced a new technique to construct complicated association schemes via easier to understand difference.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Found an alternative to pseudo-geographic hierarchical routing that prevents mobile devices from losing messages when switching locations

Hilo, Hawaii

Worked with the abelian sandpile model which is a mathematical tool used to study self-organized criticality in dynamical systems. By studying specific families of graphs (wheels,trees, fans, cycles, and complete graphs), I created and efficient and effective way of categorizing all the possible toppling patterns produced from these graphs.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Nanodegree In Ai For Trading, Artificial Intelligence

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mathematics With Honors And Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Women's Ultimate Frisbee, Mock Trail, Science Scholar Program, Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society, Pi Mu Epsilon Math.

Computer Science

Studied abroad in the Spring of Junior year in Budapest, Hungary