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Hickory, Nc, Us

Leading effort to apply NLP tools including transformers, regular expressions, and LLMs to de-identify data.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

• Lead a team on a contract to develop a Django backend app that queried user security settings and alerted end-users for incorrect configurations. Added nine new supported apps to our client’s platform.• Upgraded client Django website from 1.8 to 1.11. Used Docker, AWS for development environments. Utilized GitHub continuous integration tools to deliver a well-tested upgrade that was deployed Fall 2022.• Primary back-end engineer on a Django/React website that queried private APIs with Django Rest Framework to present potential candidates for a given job position.

• First author on paper published at top NLP conference ACL [1] studying the predictability of difficult questions in question-answering tasks. Showed that the difficulty of questions can be predicted using a variety of simple and interpretable natural language features. Selected for oral presentation and presented at ACL 2022.• First author on in-review paper proposing a method to predict medical error severity. Used Pytorch, Huggingface, Sklearn to develop and interpret complex deep-learning BERT-based classifiers as well as simple bag-of-word models. Achieved .7 F1 score in some tasks.• Researcher on on-going project on how to use natural language feedback to improve black-box models.

United States

• Sole author of a Django website with a JS front-end that provided a feature-rich video analysis tool that is now deployed as a Heroku web app and utilized by UNC-CH Biology labs.• Integrated pre-trained computer vision models to assist in automated video analysis using tensorflow.js.• Published technical contribution to biology community [2].

• Developed an automated video editing website using Python, OpenCV, and NodeJS, which changed videosinto accessible video games.• Used C++ and BOOST to create multi-threaded Python bindings, deceasing processing time by 50%.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics And Computer Science