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Volunteer database administrator. Automating business processes in Salesforce. Cleaning data and providing staff with data, using SQL and VBA.

Part of the data analysis/ML engineering team at an enterprise search and chat assistant startup. Prompt engineering using LangChain, developing semantic search with state of the art vector embeddings such as SBERT, and training/fine-tuning language models in PyTorch.

Lecturer in mathematics. I taught courses ranging from Precalculus to Abstract Algebra. I taught fully remote in 2020-2021 and implemented a hybrid modality in 2021-2022.

San Diego, California, United States

Served as teaching assistant for 22 classes in the math department, with an average student recommen-dation rate of 90 percent. The curricula ranged from college calculus to advanced upper division coursesincluding Mathematical Modeling, Abstract Algebra and Topology. Duties include preparing for anddelivering weekly discussion sections, hosting office hours, grading exams and providing feedback tostudents and professors. Recipient of the the 2017-2018 UCSD TA award.

Portland, Oregon, United States

My undergraduate advisor hired me (using a federal grant) to study quantum learning algorithms. Our work resulting in two publications, and we continue to pursue this line of research.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mathematics

Thesis: Classification of Ribbon Categories with the Fusion Rules of SO(N)

Master Of Science - Ms, Mathematics, With Honours

Thesis: The Multivariable Alexander Polynomial and the Thurston Norm

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Mathematics

Thesis: Quantum State Discrimination and Concept Learning