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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

- Co-founded an agency that provides signed language interpreting and cued language transliteration services.- Secured contracts with the MD state government, and served over two dozen consumer, corporate, and government clients in the DMV area.- Responsible for coordinating scheduling with school officials and other interpreters and transliterators, as.

College Park, Maryland, United States

- Created four computer vision applications from scratch; object recognition and distance estimation software, a panorama stitching app, an Adobe rotobrush clone, and a drone location/flightpath tracker using raw camera data.- Some of the techniques used included: GMMs, alternate color spaces (e.g. YCbCr), convolution, ANMS, RANSAC for homography.

College Park, Maryland, United States

- Implemented Tomasulo’s algorithm, four branch predictors (G-share, Two-Level Adaptive, etc), and three cache coherency protocols (MOESI, etc) for parallelized processors (from 4 to 16 cores).- Wrote Python scripts for extensive testing of different architectures/hyper-parameters

- Developed a variety of native iOS apps, including a “Threes” clone, a GPS-based route history tracker, a video sharing social media platform using Firebase (with a content recommendation system, likes, etc), a movie watchlist tracker, and a personal budgeting app (complete with custom category breakdowns and monthly spending reports).

- Implemented many foundational ML algorithms from the ground up, including neural networks, simulated annealing, PCA, softmax regression, gradient descent, A* search, decision trees. Kalman filters, particle filters, and bayes nets. Applied the models to simulated environments (i.e. racing a car around a track) and real world datasets (i.e. chess ELO.

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

- Served in all crew positions; food prep, dishwasher, customer service line, but mainly grill.- Responsible for training new grillers and preparing/coordinating all catering operations (sometimes for 100+ people).- As lead griller, lead the grill staff to score a perfect health/sanitation rating from the MD Office of Food Protection.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Theta Chi, Soccer, Club Gymnastics, Startup Shell

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Finance

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Soccer, Student Council