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San Francisco, California, United States

Alamaden Research Institute, San Jose, CA

• IBM, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CADesign, develop, and analyze neural network implementation of machine learning, image processing, motion tracking, and signal processing algorithms in C and Matlab, primarily.
• Developed prototype of bidirectional associative memory network for sensor fusion.
• Led small team in designing and implementing demonstration neural network for motion detection and trajectory estimation.
• Participated in design and implementation of neural networks for image classification and tracking (Neovision II).
• Designed and trained deep networks for classification of spoken phonemes or digits and for generation of input features for speech recognition tasks, combining networks into on-chip end-to-end pipeline for sequences of.
• Developed and trained deep Q and policy distillation networks and image transduction code for interfacing with Atari Learning Environment with IBM’s True North ecosystem and chip, demonstrating on-chip networks for.

• Conducted data mining, analysis, and forecasting based on product and customer support data, using SQL, Excel, and business objects.
• Executed text analytics and statistical analyses of customer support data from multiple sources.
• Increased insight in to customer support issues and customer satisfaction by introducing improved statistical analysis of customer data, and participating in design of improved customer interfaces.
• Improved allocation of company resources by constructing predictive models of customer contact rates.

Berkeley

• Designed, executed and published novel research in computational neuroscience and visual processing
• Designed, implemented, and documented extensive neural network simulation of visual cortex in Matlab and Mathematica.
• Ported simulation to distributed Beowulf cluster of Linux workstations, using MPI in C-language environment
• Extracted, analyzed, and documented simulation results, preparing for publication.
• Reviewed and discussed neuroscience-related literature.

Ph.D., Vision Science

Computational Neuroscience

Bs, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa

M.S., Biochemistry

M.S., Computer Science

Certificate, Bioinformatics, 4.0