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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, United States

-Electronically file in US Appellate Courts, US District Courts, and California Superior Courts-Resolve urgent requests from attorneys across Commercial Litigation, Proposition 65 Disputes, and social impact cases-Cold call businesses to recruit plaintiffs for social impact cases-Prepare exhibits and serve discovery requests.

-Outstanding Attorney award at Binghamton University's tournament with over 100 attorneys competing-First-Place Attorney at Regionals with ~150 attorneys competing-First-Place Attorney at Michigan State University's Tournament with over 100 attorneys competing-First-Place Attorney at Bryant University's tournament with over 100 attorneys competing

-Cold called dozens of law firms and sent postcards to 200+ individuals to raise thousands of dollars for our organization-Maintained confidentiality while handling 10+ interpersonal conflicts, accusations, and personal emergencies within the club-Proposed and advocated fair processes for placing club members on A team, B team, or C team, such as quantitative techniques for comparing scores across tournaments-Maintained confidentiality of discussion and votes by club leadership when members asked why they were placed on a certain team

-Investigate recent changes in California adoption law to urgently inform Partners’ guidance to corporate clients-Search CA statutes, Circuit court rulings, and US Supreme Court opinions utilizing Westlaw and Justia databases for answers to civil procedure questions around commercial advertising-Prepare memorandum for Partners on jurisdiction of CA Courts pursuant to CA’s long-arm statute and 9th Circuit rulings onspecific personal jurisdiction

Rochester, New York, United States

-Lived amongst first-year students to provide academic guidance-Achieved top-rated of over 30 Fellows in the program

Irvine, California, United States

-Built interface to enable care providers to interact with terabytes of patient data via large language models-Took initiative in asking questions to understand client (care provider) needs to inform design of interface-Worked with enterprise suite of software to securely manage patient data and comply with company standards for AI usage-Presented team’s project to internal reviewers at Fortune 5 company; chosen by managers for presentation skills

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

-Researched legal changes in 500-page immigration bill and articulated relevant findings in six-page memorandum-Contrasted TikTok bans RESTRICT Act and DATA Act and prepared memorandum on findings for Legislative Assistant-Welcomed phone calls from dozens of constituents every week and ensured they felt heard-Drafted response letters to be sent to 700,774 constituents

-Built model to predict the percent of the vote won by each candidate in US Senate elections given candidate ideologies,economic indicators, and state and national partisan lean-Designed pandas boolean masks and functions to construct dataset from 3 different publicly available datasets totalling over 10 million entries-Trained decision tree then random forest in sklearn, neural network with fast.ai in PyTorch. Used ensembling to decrease error of model by 33%-In progress: Deploy as web application to update with publicly available generic congressional ballot polls

-Engaged in fast-paced technical and non-technical problem-solving to assistant patrons at Physics-Optics-Astronomy library with greatly varied needs-Greeted patrons to maintain a welcoming environment

-Directed the computational efforts of the Second-Place North American Team in an international synthetic biology competition of 300+ teams-Collaborated to build software for continuous conversion of electrical signals into user-friendly biomarker concentration readout-Developed and test media-recognized predictive models

-Directed team through customer-discovery exercise -Fostered generation of 30+ project ideas-Optimized institutional decision-making by narrowing ideas via a weighted decision matrix, aiming to make judgement as quantitative as possible to avert cognitive biases and ensure a rigorous process

-Led the campaign to eliminate ambulance bills for students and the campaign to establish amnesty for students who call for ambulances while violating school rules, efforts for which I was nominated for the Andrew Fried Prize by my university-Built coalitions of senators with diverse backgrounds and priorities to muster support for those campaigns

Boise, Idaho, United States

-Designed incentive structures to encourage studying, as well as healthy diet, exercise, and sleep habits-Researched and instituted high performance study strategies-Shepherded team through competition day with neuroplasticity and gratitude exercises