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Eugene, OR, US

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Eugene, Oregon, United States

- Led several research projects including a chatbot integrating OpenAI GPT-4, AWS, and heroku which demonstrated therapeutic alliance between participants and the chatbot therapist (see live on Telegram @CoachRecovery) - Machine learning using scikit-learn to identify individual difference predictors in two NIH-funded datasets. Data analysis of more than.

Berkeley, California, United States

Planning cognitive Evals for frontier Ai

Auckland, New Zealand

For Auckland International Airports Limited: - Shaped government policy by presenting a Covid-19 model to the Ministry of health; recommendations we made were adopted within a month of presenting the model to their team - The model was built in R and presented in an ambitious RShiny data visualization web app with data from external sources, available at.

Auckland, New Zealand

- Demonstrated For Sale By Owner prices are comparable to For Sale By Agent and identified Time-To-Sell as the key advantage for Agent sales, using explainable AI to carry out a linear regression market study on 100,000 property sales- Built an ML model using R for homeowner Propensity to Sell using user data and property information to predict propensity.

Greater Los Angeles Area

In my work at the University of Southern California I have:- researched risky decision-making through analyses of fMRI data written in python and R- designed and ran surveys assessing social psychological theory in morality, culture, and decision-making - wrote a wrapper R package to integrate caret machine learning with neuroscience packages - used python.

Menlo Park, CA

- collected and analyzed longitudinal data on user behavior from over 1 million users using HIVE SQL log analysis data mining, describing patterns of product engagement over the course of a yearran surveys on several thousand users about their attitudes toward the product- shared insight and made recommendations about improvements to the products which.

Working within the software services team to develop a.NET platform services website. I took the lead roll as the primary developer and system designer in building a new version of our customer support website.

Eden Terrace, Auckland

I provided third-tier technical support to users of Vista’s software.

Department Of Psychology

I taught laboratory classes of 20-30 students for PSYCH108: Individual, Social, and Applied Psychology.

Auckland, New Zealand

I used MATLAB to test simplified algorithms for modelling neuron networks in the respiratory system; our work resulted in a publication listed below.

Auckland, New Zealand

I managed social media and other tasks including statistical analysis and facebook application development.

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

I taught Oral English as a second language in Nanjing, China, to 6 classes of 30-50 students each.

I began as an intern through an Auckland University programme; the company was known as Proximity ID at the time. I continued working here part-time throughout my time studying. My contributions include technical design, implementation, and administration of the planetstream.tv website.

IT & Communications Manager, building a web site (PHP) and keeping company contacts up to date with company developments.

Customer support, C#.NE including HTML and JavaScript, Microsoft Access, and SQL Server administration.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Psychology, 3.97

Activities and Societies: Chinese English Language Exchange (founding member, Communications Officer); Graduate Association for Students.

Master Of Science (Msc), Psychology, A

Activities and Societies: Auckland University Students' Association Executive

Bsc, Grad.Dip.Arts, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Amnesty International, World Vision Club, AU Fraternity, Model UN

Education record

Psychology