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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 for IBM’s TrueNorth ecosystem.• 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 spoken digits or phonemes.• 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 real-time Atari interface.

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