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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 500 fMRI sessions with python machine learning approaches including hyperparameter tuning, model selection, and cross-validation. - Successfully led data collection from 2,000 participants in a self-report survey with embedded A/B test design, identifying effective new ways to induce behavior change and reduce smoking craving along in at-risk vulnerable populations with relevant mechanisms of action - Published several research papers on AI describing balancing of multiple of objectives in RL agents - Designed a linear computational model of reward prediction error connecting neural activity to behavior and published the results in a leading neuroscience - Led a lunch discussion series on deep learning research and taught classes on Motivation and Emotion and Scientific Writing

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 https://bnanalysis.shinyapps.io/border_covid_assessment/ - We published a paper about the science behind our model in the New Zealand Medical JournalFor SapienX/ESP: Time series modeling to identify electricity waste by technology in an industrial settingFor Litmaps. Optimizing data import pipelines for natural language corpuses

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 to sell where identified properties had 5x higher likelihood of selling vs. baseline; time since last sale was identified as a leading predictor- Designed a Supply and Demand PowerBI dashboard describing nationwide market supply and demand based on website engagement data, drawing interest from a major public housing developer interested in predicting demand- Improved Automated Valuation Model for homes based on a scikit-learn LightGBM model from a dataset of 500,000 properties; quantified model variance and wrote a report summarizing model accuracy- Productionized a deep-learning based model for computer vision to classify uploaded images and taught an internal class on computer vision for software engineers.- Created a Product Adoption PowerBI Dashboard to track adoption of a new product released- Created an automated monthly “Property Report” using RMarkdown to describe property industry activity

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 to build a computational model of motivation in decision-making recently published in the Journal of Research and Personality - taught 4 lab sections of 20-30 undergraduate students each for PSYC201: The Science of Happiness and PSYC 165: Drugs, Behavior, and Society.- Published my work in Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, and other outletsExpecting graduation July 2018

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 informed a major product revamp in 2016-2017.

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